Personal Narrative: My Collegiate Experiences

Prompt: In 500 words or more, describe your collegiate experience thus far. How has this experience and the knowledge you've gained influenced what you plan to study? How have they influenced your decision to apply to St. Edward's?

Ever since I was a young student, teachers knew that I was not a normal kid. These teachers saw qualities in me that they could not see in many students at that age level. They saw a child who had a profound love to know more and had the ambition of a decorated Olympic swimmer to learn not just the material that was being taught but why it is being taught and how I can I use this information to make people’s lives better. Fast-forward to today, and you can clearly see that not much has changed except my determination to learn and my love to help others has done nothing but expanded.

Now that I have attended both the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and South Texas College I have gained so many life experiences that have helped me define who I am as a person and has helped me realize what kind of good I want to bring to the business world.

In just a year of attending these schools I have been able to recognize the evil that lies within the darkness of many business activities and I would like to branch out and try to be the one good guy that will try to help others instead of throwing people under the bus for my own selfish benefit. Listening to cases where white collar workers deceiving people and steal from not only people but from their very own firm is what has inspired me to pursue a career a degree in Forensic Accounting. Being a man who has came from nothing and has worked hard for everything I have today, it is infuriating hearing about the millions of dollars that “mysteriously” go missing. With a refined education from a prestigious school such as St. Edwards, I will most certainly be able to find the real crooks of America who for a long time now have easily gotten

away.

Alongside attending school full time for the past year, I have been blessed to be a part of an internship program that has taught me a little of the ins and outs of being an accountant and truly understand the balance of a lot of firms daily activities. During my internship at PM Dedicated Logistics, I got to work face to face with professionals who have gone out to vouch for me for a full time position at the firm. Some of my daily job activists and responsibilities would consist of daily bank reconciliations, applying daily cash receipts to the proper accounts and processing accounts payable functions such as disbursements using the quickbooks interface. In fact, over the past five months I was able to perform five bank reconciliations where I caught on some inconsistencies with what the bank said that the firm had deposited and what had really been deposited. After further research, I saved the business over $2000 due to an unseen error the bank made.

With the skills and knowledge that I have gained from both my internship experience and from attending school, I think it's safe to say that I developed an unconditional love for accounting that I would like to carry to the Munday Business School. With the proper education and guidance in my field the sky's the limit in terms of where I'll be in the next few years.