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Tuesday, May 8
This Fall, I start the last two years of my undergraduate
degree at University of Houston – Clear Lake.
This university is helping me to reach my goal of getting my Computer
Science degree and allow me to stay local.
I have always been close to my family, and it’s exciting that I will not
have to sacrifice academics. A lot of
schools today have a lot of extra stuff – I’ve even seen schools with spas and
rockwalls. That is just way over the top
for me, and it seems like that would contribute significantly to tuition. UHCL has completely reasonable tuition but
doesn’t sacrifice a nice campus. I’ve
always loved hiking and being outdoors, and UHCL is completely surrounded by
nature trails and trees. I can
completely envision taking my school books and my computer and studying outside
– but the campus is far enough away from a large urban sprawl that I won’t be
completely worried about my safety like I would be if I were taking classes in
downtown Houston. Right now, I work at
Best Buy Geek Squad and teach piano to children. I’m excited to start the next phase of my IT
career, especially as an IT analyst for one of the several surrounding
petroleum companies. My father used to
work as a programmer for a company downtown when we first moved here, and it
would be pretty fun to follow in his footsteps. Because he wants me to work for what I have, just like he had to, I'm paying for my college out of my own pocket, which is why scholarships and low tuition are so important to me. But ultimately, my journey now is about paving the way for going back
into school for my graduate degree in neuroscience. With how much neuroscience and the technology
field are beginning to converge, my undergraduate degree at UHCL will be
perfect for me to lay a technological foundation for my long-term goal of being
a research scientist in the neuroscience field.
Being able to program or understand the inner workings of how a computer
works could help enormously with my ultimate career field, and I have already
opened communications with professors at UHCL who are interested in the same
convergence of fields and are willing to work with me to better customize my
time at UHCL to lay that foundation that I crave. I don’t think I’d get that at a larger school
that isn’t local to me now.
This scholarship is sponsored by CenturyLinkQuote.com.
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