Nathan Salgado '23 Recruiting Profile

Summer internships and jobs have pushed me on the path to success by exposing me to interesting career opportunities, introducing me to people from all walks of life who explained to me how they achieved their career goals, and teaching me how to independently solve problems. 

My parents gave me the opportunities to show me different adventures during my summer break. I have been fortunate to have different experiences  that will help me discover what  college and career paths I can take. Both of my parents are  immigrants to the United States. My father didn’t have the opportunity to attend college. My mother had the opportunity to go to college in her home country for 4 years;  but, due to unforeseen economic and social issues, she wasn’t able to complete her final term.

Nevertheless both my parents went on with their lives and they eventually found each other  and realized they were possibly a match made in heaven.They were married and some time later a Little baby boy was on the scene; me!  They both migrated from Mexico to the United States

Today. 

I was born to two loving parents who work hard to give me and my siblings  a proper education and home to live in. They have taught me the importance of doing well in school and going to the best possible college that I can go to. My mother has always told me that even though I was born with dyslexia, which makes it hard for me to read and write. This meant that it would take me a 

long time to read and write when compared to someone who doesn't have dyslexia. Throughout school, my teachers or other aids would have to readed worksheets and tests to me. Having dyslexia made going to school harder than it would've for someone without dyslexia. Dyslexia presented certain challenges that I had overcome during school,  such as having a more challenging time reading. Meanwhile,  I had to work twice as hard as the other students in my class. Because of my condition,  it made me scared to go to school with the other students. I would also have to deal with questions that other kids would ask me when a teacher and computer would read a test to me. When I would get pulled out of class which would be everytime in the English class. I  would try and  have a good excuse as to why and would just  say” I don't know why”, even though I knew. I was lying to them and they would  give me confused or weird looks when I would just tell them why. I would have this weird feeling that I would  never be able to do my best in  that school so in all of elementary school I would get bad grades and would be scared to go to school and pretend to be sick knowing my parents I was faking it, but they still took me to school. 

When I got into middle school everything changed for me. My parents put me in swimming and apparently I was good at it. Winning medals in big meets and juggling with school to help with my fear with school plus I got better grades out of it. By the end of sixth grade I was able to do things alone without that much help from others. Seventh and eighth grade I kept it steady with my grades and enjoyed swimming more and more plus I knew what I wanted to do in life. I wanted to do what my father does and that is real estate and business. At the end of my middle school I found out school was not that bad anymore and I found out what career I want to follow and what I want to do in the future.

In spite of middle school, high school made me more vigilant about what I need and what I need to do, to help me with my future. My first time entering high school was practicing with the varsity swim team and finding out that I was faster than everyone else in the team, didn't surprise me a lot because I have been training perfectly since I was ten year old. First time meeting my high school coach was fascinating to me, for the reason that he told me all the goals he had for the team plus removing the records from the high school record board. He told me that nobody has been close to breaking any of the records and in that instinct that was a challenge to me. At that moment I wanted to put my name on that board multiple times. In November, the beginning of Thanksgiving break we had a big meet in Corpus Christi. At that time I didn't know that was the moment I believed that anything can be possible if you commit to yourself every day. In spirit of that it was my first time breaking a school record therefore no one saw it coming plus me for the person who broke it in his freshman year. I still remember after the race what happened and what I felt at that moment. I was too exhausted to even  walk to my coach, I had my older classmate help me get where my coach was and I still remember what my coach looked like when I broke it. He ran to me and gave me a hug because he was so disbelieving of what just happened and how it happend. For there on I kept on breaking three more records in my high school experience and became District champion three times because I invested in myself. For that it shaped me who I am today and who I want to be in the future. For that I decided to go to college and study business with my father.