WHAT AM I GOING TO LOSE FOR FREE? SO I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT. WAS IT WORTH IT? OH YEAH! MY PAY IS PRETTY MUCH DOUBLE.

I spend every day at work helping children, and adults of all kinds, to feel better -- and it makes me a better person. I am a young single mother who needs a career to provide for my daughter, and this path has allowed me great opportunity, with a short time in school.

I want to be the first in my family to go to college, to set an example for my sister and other young, Hispanic women, that it is possible. It takes hard work, but it's a good job. It's an important job, a job that makes a difference.