How Texas A & M Changed My Life

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I am from a small town called Sealy, it is about an hour south of College Station. Coming from a small town I knew all of my neighbors and pretty much everybody in my school. There were some people who kept to themselves but for the most part we are all very social and outgoing. Before high school I had no idea where I wanted to go to college. I just knew that I wanted to be kind of close to home. For a while I was thinking about attending Texas University but we went there to visit family and I did not like the town of Austin. My cousin was attended Blinn in Bryan so some weekends I would come to visit him and I enjoyed the town of College Station. It is like my home town where everybody is nice and very friendly. I visited Texas A&M and automatically …show more content…

But unfortunately my grades were not good enough to get into A&M right away so I attended Blinn in Brenham. Taking engineering classes at Blinn made me rethink my major because I was not doing very well. I knew I could not get through the schooling to be an engineer but I wanted to do hands on work for my career. I was also working for a small engineering firm called Wilson Engineering. I sat behind a desk and drew up site plans and buildings. I was having fun at first seeing all the different layouts of the land and buildings but I was getting bored and tired of sitting around all day. That is when I decided to become a construction science major, because I enjoy building and seeing how things were …show more content…

Some of them include repairing fishing rods and reels, maintenance for a school district, building boats, and drawing engineering plans. My parents have always inspired to put myself out there and go after jobs to get experience and make money in the process. I would have to say that my mom is one of the people I look up to the most because she has gotten laid off twice and still kept everything together and kept looking for more work. She just so strong willed and always positive. She has helped me to learn to keep my head up and think quick to solve the problem when stuff does not go right. She has also taught me to think things out before doing things so that I have plans of what needs to be done and how to do them in the shortest amount of time. My mom has inspired me so much and helped me become the man I am today. Another person that inspires me would have to be my best friend David. He scared me to death when he cracked his skull open in a four-wheeler accident. I drove up to him and saw the left side of his skull open and an enormous pile of blood next to him. He was life lighted to a head trauma center in Tyler Texas where the doctors said he was expected to die. Against all odds David pulled through and has been my biggest inspiration and hero to this

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