Before going to college, some students may pause for a moment, enjoy a carefree life and wait before plunging headfirst into school again.

But then there are some who have a dream and choose to work hard for it to become a reality, which is exactly what Oskar Martinsson did.

A freshman forward on the Santa Monica College men's soccer team, Martinsson, originally from Sweden, spent nine months with his friends working for a storage company in Oslo, Norway, where he drove a small delivery truck to save money to study abroad.

After graduating from high school in Gothenburg, Sweden, he knew that he wanted to be independent and getting a job seemed to be the right thing to do.

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