 The best thing about my experience at a technical college has been building new relationships and making new friends, also getting that one-on-one support with my instructors, and also getting really involved on campus. I was really especially surprised about how much I've grown as a person and all of the knowledge I've gained and all of the accomplishments I've made thus far and by having so many resources available to me at WCTC. My parents had to drop off, drop out when they were in their teenage years. My mother dropped out of school when she was 15 years old and right away just had to work because that's what you were supposed to do. You had to work just to pay the bills and to put food on the table. And so when they had me, they always wanted me to have a better life than what they had. And they always pushed me to continue my education and to go very far in my life and live off their dreams that they didn't have when they were young. And my mother at 56 years old now has seen all the accomplishments that I've made and now she wants to return to school and get her GED. And she wants to go very far because she now believes that there is an opportunity to be successful and that no dream is a little dream.