I Graduated College with No Student Loans!
After five years…
I finally graduated.
The idea of being left behind has tried to catch up on me for the past five years. I was in constant haste; I always tried to outrun the hands of the clock as if I was in a race with my graduation day. I mean, how can you blame me? I have been in college since 2010, except that I had to stop for two years when I migrated to the United States in 2011. My colleagues have graduated back in 2014 and some of them already obtained their CPA (Certified Public Accountant) license. While here I was, started all over again from square one in a peculiar school system that has more requirements to fulfill.
Nevertheless, God has been so good to me through out my entire journey in the pursuit of my Bachelor’s degree.
First, I spent three years in community college and eventually graduated from Napa Valley College in 2016 with my Associates’ Degree in Accounting, plus a Bookkeeping Certificate.
Second, I spent two years in undergrad and graduated Summa Cum Laude from San Francisco State University in 2018 with my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Major in Accounting.
Total five years in college, but I owed $0 student loans! God had been very gracious to me by fully financing my tuition fees through financial aids, scholarship money, and my bookkeeping job at the time. Being a working student who graduated with flying colors (with no burdening debt after me) is an accomplishment that I can only give God the credit to. But of course, without my family’s support especially my mom’s, I wouldn’t have done nearly half of what I accomplished.
San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Concentration in Accounting
Summa Cum Laude
To my fellow immigrants who have been given access to the American Dream, I urge you to exhaust all the resources that were given at your disposal. Seek every opportunities to realize those dreams of yours that would not even have a glimpse of day if you weren’t here in America. By not doing so, I think it would be a huge disservice to your country and countrymen to squander such privileges that million hopefuls can only dream of having back home.