Edwin Rivera, 21, fire and emergency technology major: “I had originally wanted to go to the Marines. I filled out the contract and was told that I needed to go to the eye doctor to get a waiver for astigmatism. He said that it might take a year to pass and that I could go to school in the meantime. I never did the astigmatism thing and I was here for a year, then two years, and my doctor told me that he could have cleared me. I’m about to finish my associate’s degree in fire tech.”