Cristian Maldonado

Individually I am both challenged and gifted. To me "gifted" is to have excellent comprehension that creates critical thinking in education or an initiative towards career goals; surprisingly, being challenged with mental health has helped me with critical thinking likewise, although that critical thinking is more so in regards to other parts of life that have brought a standpoint of positive contribution and habits to my academics, emotions, social skills, and personal goals .

Never have I been perfect nor will I. My mother always told my siblings and I growing up " you are allowed a million mistakes just not the same one twice, cause then it's a choice and you show nothing was learned from the first time." this has influenced me all through middle school, until now, and will follow me in my future morals.
I am proudly a 16 year old student at Mcat high school in the Marana unified school district. This school has teachers and staff that support students as you would expect any school to do, possibly more effectively. One could even say they save lives as they did mine; the first week I attended the welcoming, supportive, and comforting campus that Mcat high school is, there was no doubt they held major influence within my coping and healing of major depressive symptoms. By all of this the path for me to prosper had then been set.

I appreciate you reading this,
- Cristian Maldonado