Angel David Nishimura

Major: Health Science

Hometown: Santa Ana, CA

Career: Physician’s Assistant

Why go to college: Coming from a low-income family if you are not working then the next best thing as a child is to be good in school. I do admit that I was a bit of a troubled kid at a young age. I am the fourth child from an immigrant family and the only child born in the U.S. The age gap between me and everyone else was at least 13 years, so I always had more than two sets of eyes on me. My life can be summarized by always being corrected and always being told what benefits a U.S. citizen holds. One being the many possibilities that education can grant you. The amount of doors education brings are only limited to one's imagination. To be able to not live on a check by check basis, to be able to know what a savings account is, and to be able to provide for your family all that is wished for. That was what my family preached to me.

Why CI: I remember visiting the campus one time in high s