{"id":2003,"date":"2023-03-01T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/succeed\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T20:54:46","slug":"marian-montiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/succeed\/2023\/03\/01\/marian-montiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Marian Montiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column 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fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 30px 0px 30px;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:50px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">GRIFFONS LEAD<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:50px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 fusion-text-split-columns fusion-text-columns-3\" style=\" -webkit-column-count:3; -webkit-column-gap:2em; -webkit-column-width:200px; -moz-column-count:3; -moz-column-gap:2em; -moz-column-width:200px; column-count:3; column-gap:2em; column-width:200px;transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>From a young age, Marian\u2019s father instilled in her the importance of college and education. When Missouri Western visited her high school, she saw her dreams just within reach \u2013 being the first member of her family to attend college.<\/p>\n<p>Marian\u2019s life is full of firsts. Before she was a first-generation college student, Marian was the first member of her family born in the United States after her parents emigrated from Nicaragua and Honduras. &#8220;My mom is from Honduras and my Dad is from Nicaragua. My parents opened a restaurant and grocery store when I was younger, but they did not know much English. As a seven-year-old, I would help translate for them at the various licensing offices, city hall, or other places as needed.\u201d Helping her parents didn\u2019t stop with their first business, though. \u201cEven now, I am always their right-hand person to do anything they need help with. I would learn whatever I could just to help them out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the time she was that seven-year-old little girl helping translate for her parents, her father instilled in her the importance of \u201cgoing to university.\u201d The degree that she earns will follow her everywhere and allow her to achieve her goals no matter where she travels. Just because the idea of attending college was instilled in her didn\u2019t mean the path was going to be an easy one.<\/p>\n<p>Marian has faced different challenges as a first-generation college student. She didn\u2019t have guidance on how to look for colleges and programs or even how to fill out the FAFSA. College preparation was Marian\u2019s biggest obstacle. Not only did Marian have to learn how to navigate the path to college, but she had to teach her parents along the way, and now she has to help her younger brother navigate his own college path.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges she faced, Marian knows she made the right choice in Missouri Western. After her first visit to the campus, Marian already felt like a member of the Griffon family. \u201cI chose Missouri Western on my first tour. The two group leaders on the tour are what settled it for me. I knew I wanted to come here because it felt like a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she first began at Missouri Western, Marian was majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. \u201cOne of the requirements was Psychology 101. I had the class with Dr. Kelly Henry who is now my advisor. Instantly, from that class, I picked psychology up as a minor and continued from there,\u201d Marian said. She soon learned psychology was her true passion. \u201cI noticed that I had so much more attention and motivation to do my work with psychology,\u201d she added. After talking with Dr. Henry, she switched her major to psychology and has been in love with it since.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating, Marian\u2019s initial goal is to become a clinical psychologist with the ultimate goal of bringing more psychological and mental health resources and information to Nicaragua. \u201cTeaching those types of things is something I feel is very important. I don\u2019t really think it\u2019s fair sometimes that some people have to come all the way to the U.S. to get those resources if we are able to share that with them,\u201d Marian said. \u201cI want to be able to open my own practice and hopefully continue the path of my grandparents and open a school.\u201d Both her grandfather and father opened schools in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>Marian\u2019s advice to other first-generation students is to not be afraid to ask questions along the way. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to sometimes do it by yourself, but in the end, it\u2019s so worth it. Looking at your parents\u2019 faces, your siblings\u2019 faces, everybody\u2019s faces looking at what you\u2019re doing is going to be so powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents are my number one motivators. I\u2019m going to college to get that degree and do better for my life and their lives because they\u2019ve done so much.\u201d<br \/>\nMarian is not alone at Missouri Western. There are many students like her \u2013 first-generation students trying their hardest to help their families and better their lives. 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