Its great to be great, but its greater to be human.-- Will Rodgers My story starts like the story of many other Latino Americans, in that I grew up in a bilingual family, none of my family had ever been to college, we had to struggle just to keep food on our plates and clothes on our backs, and faced discrimination by others almost daily. We had to strive to great lengths just to keep what we had while...

When applying to college there is definitely an urge to simply choose the best school that you get accepted to, but you should not base your choice off of that. College isn't just about receiving higher education, its an experience, and just because a college...

As a first generation College student, I was terrified of the sticker price that was posted on college websites, because I knew that my family couldn't even cover a fraction of the costs, and I thought that meant I would have to pull out loans of upwards to 50,000 a year....