What I'm proud of most as a first gen student was that
making my  parents proud, you know
When I first was talking about college
in high school
They all were just so scared about the money
And they were so scared about me going away to some
weird place that they had never never been before
And was
Afraid of
I was the first one to leave the nest so
I was already the weirdo who
Did that, you know
But being able to get
That support while I was going through undergrad
You know and all my family coming up
And just seeing this place that I 've
been for the last
Four or five or six years
You know, seeing my mom
with this pride
She had the narrative that
she was a bad parent
that me my bothers and sisters aren't going to amount to anything
and being that first to
do the college thing
Just changed our family.
And again
A point was to make photo copies of my degrees
on nice paper
and put it in a frame
I'm like mama, I know my names on it but
You've been a part of this journey.
You gave me the foundation to navigate this college thing
And that was definitely one of my proudest moments
And to sit here and say that my siblings are in careers that
My youngest sister
She's working on her PhD
The first Doctor in our family and I
But for me to start that new family tradition is
definitely the best
