What The Hixson Award Means To Me

I am SO thankful for being able to receive this scholarship.  When I found out I got it I was so ecstatic, jumping up and down, it was a great feeling.  Honestly, getting the Christina Hixson Scholarship decided where I would go to college.  If I hadn't received this scholarship I would probably be taking classes at the community college DMACC and that's definitely not something I wanted to be doing.  I wanted to go to a big college, meet new people, and continue my education here at Iowa State.  I had always wanted to go here since I was little, my family is a big cyclone family and my mom went here  for her first few years of college too and it just seemed right.  However, I knew we weren't  in the best place financially and going to Iowa  State just might have to be put off a bit.  

The scholarship is giving me the opportunity to continue my education without being too worried about financial issues.  It was interesting going over financial aid in class and finding out that the average Iowa State students debt when they graduate college is around $30,000, that's ridiculous!!!  Although I'm only a freshman I'm still worried about what kind of debt I'll be in when I graduate, and hoping that I'll find a job soon enough to pay everything off when the bills start coming in.  

This scholarship has also brought me to meet a ton of great people, like THE PURPLE SQUAD!!  We're able to connect with people who share common goals and interests and it's fun.  We've definitely stuck together through this whole semester and it's always fun when we get together.  

Mainly this scholarship gives me the ability to go to college and continue a higher education.  I want to make a good life for me and I wouldn't be given that opportunity without the Hixson Scholarship.  Hopefully I finally decide on what I want to do in the near future so I can start taking classes toward that degree and do something that I want to do and make a good living off of it.