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What Really Makes Me, Me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Nadia Harris, and something that represents me is my family\u00a0and friends.\u00a0Growing up in school, I\u2019ve always heard the phrase \u201cYou are a representation of your parents\u201d, and that has always stuck with me because the way a child acts is a visual representation of the parents\u2019 teachings and influences.\u00a0My family represents me because without them I am nothing. Without my family by my side every step of the way, I wouldn\u2019t be who I am today. My family are my biggest supporters in\u00a0all\u00a0my achievements, no matter how big or small.\u00a0They are always on the \u201csidelines\u201d cheering me on.\u00a0I am a physical representation of my family.\u00a0My family consists of my mom and dad along with my 3 sisters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My parents instilled values in me that I live by day-to-day which include honesty, respect, and a strong work ethic. The values\u00a0parents instill in their children\u00a0shape an individual. I live by\u00a0respect because I was always told that \u201cyou treat others how you want to be treated,\u201d and plus you should always be respectful to others. I live by honesty because\u00a0why lie? Also,\u00a0just like \u201cThe Boy Who Cried Wolf,\u201d\u00a0you have only so many times to lie and people believe before everything you say goes completely out the window. <\/mdspan>I especially live by work-ethic because without putting the work nothing will ever get done.\u00a0Also,\u00a0for\u00a0me for achieve\u00a0every single one of my goals I\u00a0must\u00a0be willing to put the work in. Times that I can most\u00a0certainly\u00a0remember\u00a0my family cheering me on from the sidelines would be graduations, senior night\/awards, scholarship acceptances. For my kindergarten graduation, both my parents came even though my maternal grandmother had just passed away a couple weeks to\u00a0a month prior and my mother was grieving heavily. Both of my parents have always shown up to my graduation no matter the circumstances, for example my 8th<\/sup>\u00a0grade graduation was during covid and even though I was still able to walk across the stage to get my diploma, my parents had to sit outside in the car and watch me walk virtually.\u00a0For my track and field senior night both\u00a0my mom\u00a0and dad, and older sister came to support me even though it was raining and cold that day. Although by the time\u00a0the final event came which I had to run, even though my mom and older sister had left for a meeting they had to attend, my dad was still there to see me bring the win home for my team on our turf. At my scholarship banquets my mom usually comes with me being that the dates and times fell on days that my dad\u00a0must\u00a0work, but the scholarship banquets are a huge deal to my mom because 1. I was chosen to receive the scholarship out of all the applications and 2. because these scholarships are helping me continue furthering my education.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But to really sum up why my family represents me is because they are my biggest\u00a0rocks,\u00a0and I\u00a0must\u00a0continue to work hard to make them proud. My\u00a0friends represent me because they\u00a0basically shape my personality\u00a0in a sense.\u00a0My friends don\u2019t judge me, they let me be myself around them because we all act alike in certain aspects.\u00a0My friends bring out the best in me.\u00a0My friends know that I am a very shy person.\u00a0They essentially\u00a0bring me out of my shyness each time we get together, since they\u2019ve gotten to know me so well throughout the years, they know that\u00a0sometimes\u00a0I don\u2019t want to talk and just want to enjoy the time we are having with each other.\u00a0I have a friend group back at home where we\u2019ve all been friends since 6th\/7th<\/sup>grade, the group originally started with our choir\u2019s six flags trip but as the years have continued to pass, we have just kept getting closer and closer. \u00a0Even though we are all currently going to different schools in different states, we remain close to this day.\u00a0The first person that I remember meeting in the group was Adonis, because he lives across the street from me; he also happens to be my cousin; we met way before the group was formed\u00a0and\u00a0way before we all knew\u00a0each other. This friend group consists of my best friend India, my cousin Adonis, ,\u00a0Isabel, Jordan, Kentasia, Daron, Quentin, Jabari, Darius, and\u00a0my friend who also attends SIUE Deanna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since I\u2019ve been here at SIUE, I\u2019ve slowly started making more friends; even though I don\u2019t really like talking to people. The people that I really hang out with here are my friend Deanna from back home and her roommate\/suite mates. I\u2019ve formed a strong relationship with Deanna\u2019s roommate and suite mates-Relle, Loreal, and Alani- being that I am with them 80% of the time outside of classes and being that Alani, Loreal, and I are all nursing majors. I first started hanging out with Loreal and Alani because I would go down to Deanna\u2019s room and just be hanging in there with her, and Loreal and Alani would always be in their room when I went down there. It started off as simple greetings every time I was down there but soon became a friendship, plus we all had a class together. Although Alani, Loreal, Relle, and I haven\u2019t really known each other that long, they are cool people, but Loreal and I act just alike; we are basically kind of the same person just in different fonts. My friends don\u2019t judge me, they let me be myself around them because we all act alike in certain aspects. The new friends that I have made here are helping me figure out who I want to be in this new phase of my life because I admire their drive and passion for what they really strive towards. I\u2019ve heard a saying that\u2019s says, \u201cYou surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be and how you want to feel, energies are contagious\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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