Save Me A Spot In College is something we ask colleges in our head. For some, college means a higher education, which will bring more money in their lives, but for me college means that I get to show my family that I can do it.

The dream they wanted for me is halfway accomplished, the other half depends on me doing good in college. It also gives me the chance to set an example for my brothers, as a first generation to go to college.

My family comes from a background of hard working people from Mexico. Starting school here in the United States, in the fifth grade everything seemed hard. Then again growing up, looking at my life I knew it was not going to be easy. For the first two years, after coming here from Mexico, my family and I had to live with my mom's relatives. After that we moved with my dad's sister. All we wanted was a place of our own after seven years of living with my aunt an uncle. We did not care how big, just as long as we could call it our own.

In 2006, my dad found a little house for rent and I thought that all the hard work was finally going to pay off. My grades were good the first semester, I had a 4.1 and everything was going good. I thought about how everything I would expect something bad would come true the day my dad had an accident at work. He lost parts of his fingers on his right hand and now the house for rent was almost impossible to keep.

Since I have been working at a little restaurant, I asked for more days so I could contribute a little more towards helping the family. My grades did drop, but they were not dramatically bad. My GPA dropped to a 3.1. It was hard to stay focus in school when all I was thinking of was how were we going to pay the rent.

It has been a year and my dad is now afraid that he going to get fired so he keeps telling me to save money. Now I say, Save Me A Spot In College because I want to show that it can be done, and I do not want to put any pressure on my family to struggle even more to help me through college.