"I smile because I have no idea what is going on." –One of Michelle's favorite quotations
	Home About Michelle In her own voice From friends and family Share a thought or memory About the Foundation Donations Scholarships News and announcements Links Contact us		In her own voice Michelle writing a letter to herself at age 13 as a class assignment. The letter was then sent to her by her teacher, Mrs. Seipel, when she graduated from high school five years later: "What kind of person are you? Do you have a lot of friends? can people count on you? are you nice to people? I hope this is true that you are just a nice person. Do you still like candy right now? I love candy cant live without it. It is the best stuff on earth!! Well right now it is. "You know me. I don't like to write a lot. But I hope that you are doing good in school, you have the things you need. Most of all I hope you have a good life. That is why you are here. See you latter!!" Michelle writing in her journal at age 15 on a trip to Paris and London with her family: "I think that I have learned a lot of things on this trip like . . . to give tips, always share your salad, give your parents money and you might get it back. Don't pack a shirt for every day. You can wear them more than once . . . Have good table manners. Enjoy every day to the best you can. I learned most of this by not doing it right. But I had fun. I got to go to the other side of the world meet new people and see different things I have never seen before. Everything on this trip happened for a very good reason!" Michelle writing her application letter to SALT at age 19, the spring before she entered the University of Arizona: "This last October I visited the University of Arizona. I spent a day with my mom there and we walked around the campus, talked with students, learned about the dorms, sat in on a philosophy class and had a meeting at the S.A.L.T. All the students that I talked to said they loved the school and they were really glad they chose to go to the University of Arizona. I could understand why with all the great things that the school offers. Especially what the S.A.L.T program offers. I was happy to hear that fro every class a student has they have a tutor that will help them with that class and they can go over what you learned that day or work on projects that are coming up. I feel that this would help me a lot because when I have a tutor in a class I'm able to really learn and understand the material. I had never heard about a school giving that kind of tutoring before and I think it is such a wonderful idea. This way I know that I can talk to the tutor about any problems I might be having in a class and they will know the best way to help me. All the resources that the S.A.L.T program has like the computer that you can talk to and will write what you want to put is something I have never heard about before and it is nice to know that the S.A.L.T center has top of the line resources for students. After talking with heather from the S.A.LT center I realized that the program would help me significantly in school. Currently I'm attending Las Positas community college in Livermore California. I'm not in any program to help me with my learning disabilities. I did well in some of my classes and had a hard time in a couple of my classes. Last semester I was in a psychology class and I was able to get a C in it because I understood the material in the class for the most part but I still had a hard time taking tests. In my history class I was not so fortunate, I did not understand the material at all because it was something I had not learned in a lot time. I got a F in the class and I wish I had gone to a tutor or worked with other people from the class to go over the material I had learned. I did learn a lot from that class in a sense that a night class one day a week for 3 hours was not the best thing for me. I now know that if I'm having a difficult time in a class I need to get help with the material I'm learning right away, that way I will not fall behind. I feel if I got the support that S.A.L.T is offering to their students I would strive in my schoolwork and do a lot better than I have in the past. Also last semester I was on the Las Positas soccer team and really had a good time playing against other team around the area. We did get to travel a little bit so that was fun. This semester I joined an Administrative Justice Club and I took the role as being the club president. It is a new club to the school so we are starting from nothing. I think it will be a fun and challenging job to take on." Michelle writing "About me" on her myspace.com website at age 20, just weeks before she died: "I'm a student at the University of Arizona, second year here and I'm loving it. My major is Retail and my minor is Psychology. Not sure what i want to do with that but there are so many different things i can do i'm not really in a rush to decide what i want to do for the rest of my life. I'm a pretty busy person always wanting to do something new and stay busy but I'm also a very easy going person enjoying going to school and learning as much interesting necessary and unnecessary stuff as possible, i would have never learned this stuff if i did not go to college so I'm glad I'm going to school, if that makes any sense at all. I'm trying to live each day to the fullest and trying not to live in the past because you can't change what has happened you can only learn from it."
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