“What if I don’t have any friends? What if I don’t pass any classes? What if I don’t know how to study? Whom can I reach out to?” Asks every first year college student. I know those were a couple of questions I worried about when I first moved to UC Merced. My transitioning to…
I plan to eventually go back to my community after college and propose and promote a bill that guarantees individualized counseling to all troubled students to help them stay on track with their education. In The New York Times article “Zero Tolerance, Reconsidered,” the editorial board states, “nearly 6 in 10 schools’ students were suspended…
I’m nearing the end of my first semester at San Francisco State University and so far its been amazing. I’ve met new people, learned new things about myself and made new memories. My first semester has been great but the only thing holding me back has been my financial situation. Going into college I thought…
During my senior year of high school, I applied to four-year universities, and I got accepted to some, but I still decided to go to a community college first to explore what I truly want to do in the future, and save money at the same time. In high school, there were students saying negative…
My major is Video Game Animation and Development, so I mostly learn concept art in the video game aspect. I always used to draw anime and other art in high school all the time. I was actually pretty good. But in my Video Game Development class, I always have a hard time connecting traditional drawing…
After moving into the dorms and realizing that I didn’t know anyone on campus, it was scary at first. I am usually a very outgoing person, but for some reason I felt shy. After a couple of ice breakers during Weekend of Welcome ( WOW), I started to open up and get back to my…
A well-planned schedule will allow a student’s semester go smoothly and accomplishing everything needed on time. However, this did not happen to me at the beginning of my first semester at UC Berkeley. There were two phases for Cal students to sign up for classes, Telebears Phase 1 and Phase 2, and the first phase…
My first “real” university experience was the first day after Welcome Week, a week that everyone has to just welcome in the new freshmen. I went to go see my professor for a homework assignment that he gave us, which was to turn in a survey that he handed to us by coming to his…
These first few weeks at Cal Poly Pomona have been fun, enlightening, and hard. I am currently taking general education classes and classes that have to do with my major, which is Urban and Regional Planning. It is so exciting and refreshing to take classes that are teaching me about the career I hope to…
Attending Contra Costa College wasn’t easy for me. There was a lot of reasons why I didn’t want to go to a community college. I didn’t want to attend CCC because of other people negative opinions, stereotypes of CC and for some reason I felt that it was going to be like High School. I…