Hello! My name is Michelle Molina...
...and I am a Santa Fe College student seeking an Associate’s Degree in English and a certificate in International Studies. I will be transferring to the University of Florida in the Fall of 2015.
Being an English major and a person of multicultural background, I’ve used my education and my upbringing to channel into my goals, aspirations, and interests for the future. From a very young age, I’ve been greatly fond of the arts, mostly dancing, literature, singing, theatre, writing, and drawing. Quickly an appreciation for the arts and the close analysis of them became an obsession, and consequently, is now second-nature. The great artists inspired me to create my own art, and since then I’ve tried mastering each one in the pursuit of one of my goals and dreams: becoming a Renaissance woman. As suspected, I became what I was meant to: what is popularly called a “hopeless romantic”.
For a hopeless romantic of a multicultural background such as myself, having interests in one culture, one country, one language seemed an impossible feat, for my many interests are multiplied manifold with the more and more I learn about the humanities. For that reason, my career path interests seem to change every day. After all, for a girl with interests in not one area or field, a career path in many areas or fields seems only adequate.
I have what I call a “Career Bucket List,” in which you can find a varied list of job positions regarding not only scholarship but also initiatives I’d like to start seeking to help causes that are dear to me. Not in any particular order, some of the job positions on my Career Bucket List are:
-become a book critic
-become an exotic food critic
-become a foreign country tour guide
-work at a museum related to the arts (or any museum for that matter)
-teach English abroad
-do research on Honduras Mayan art
-write a book specifically on Honduras Mayan art and become published
-become a professor of a course on just Central American humanities
-(maybe even) become a professor on a course related just to Honduran humanities
-write a novel about modern day realistic love and become published
-start a nonprofit targeted towards making public schools in Honduras self-sustaining
-help make public education in Honduras much more like private education in Honduras
-bring the opportunity of studying the humanities of the world to public education in Honduras
To mention a few.
To be courageous above all is my philosophy of life. I know that later in my life I will deeply regret not being. And courage doesn’t mean bungee jumping or skydiving (although I will do those!) but the courage of daring to do what one feels is right above all. The courage of standing up to an adult bully, or of saying something that seems impossible to but you're meant to, to not be afraid of standing out, but most of all, to not be afraid of having the purest of intentions be carried out and keeping them unpolluted by an opposing society or people who think hopeless romantics don’t live in reality. I personally like to call ourselves “hopeful romantics”, for we dare to hope for everyone (even our opposites: the realists) to see the world we love to live in, and to learn that we make our own reality.
My goal in life ultimately would be to achieve not the world’s concept of success, but that of us hopeful romantics fans of education: to become truly worldly, to achieve the highest possible level of emotional maturity and intelligence so that we may leave a legacy in anyone or everyone, and so that more hopeful romantics continue to mold the world of the future.
