For most of his life Emilio Salinas has been in situations where he has risen from obscurity to, seemingly overnight, become one of the “cool kids.” It happened for him as a student at Hallstrom Homeschool where he went from a “bumpy” first year of trying to fit in to the kid everyone knew, and now it has happened for him again at Rock Valley College where the once fearful kid who wasn’t sure he wanted anything to do with college can’t walk across campus now without being recognized by fellow students, staff, or faculty members due to his role as a student worker in the IT department and as the Vice President of Communication for the Student Government Association.
Just recently, Emilio was hoping his popularity would soar once again, this time from the guy who performs at Potbelly in Rockford to the next American Idol.
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I was a typical overachieving Honors student at Belvidere North High School when I learned about the Running Start program at RVC. In high school I was labeled a quiet, smart, and shy student. I was in band and choir, and participated in musicals and marching band. I never spoke up during class, and I quietly got my homework done before school was over and had a very small group of two friends and my twin sister.