"When I told my parents that I wanted to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, they questioned my decision. They questioned it because they wanted me to feel secure about it. For them, sending me off to college was a huge deal. I was leaving my home and pursuing something that was new to all three of us. Being the first in my family to leave my hometown and head off to college was difficult for my parents to think about, and I had similar feelings about it as well. There were days where we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into or what things were."
- Read "Being a First-Generation Student at Nebraska" by sociology major Edgar Estrada
