Jesus’s blog

Experiences

This first semester of college it was a whole different experience from high school the freedom and meeting new people with the same interests as me. The breaks in between classes was great I could go back to my room and take a nap or watch Netflix. The distance between my parents was not difficult I feel independent but next semester I will get a job and classes might be a challenge. I am willing to do both with the great determination I have. The classes I had were fast pace keeping up with the work on the first semester was difficult. I had to adjust to the work load to keep up with my grades and develop a new way to study effectively. On the first semester I met new people that I never met I met my best friend here in college. Overall the people that I met and talked to last semester I will keep them in my life.

Now it is the future the past will be left in the behind and the new people that I have kept in my life will help me succeed and I will help them as well. Next year I will give it my all and miss any classes it was a struggle this year. I will plan to join more clubs and organizations since this year I did not attend to a majority of the meetings. One of the goals that I will achieve is speak in the class or respond the professors questions and go to their office hours when I need help. A second goal is go to the WREC more often to workout and reduce stress to think clearly in class. The third goal is to get good grades and stop procrastination it has been a close one for my grades.

Brian Storm

My project will consist of  a website that will be informative for high school teachers could see how to help Hispanic/Latino students continue their education after high school. The website  would be wiki spaces i will gather up some more research and check that it is consistent.  The first page will show the percentages and data that shows the low preforming students and percentage that receive a degree. The second part would have the interviews I did of students and then teachers and parents could see how the students feel in the academics and where they feel that they are struggling. The third page information that parents could check out and figure out how to help their children to preceded a higher education. Concerns for my project are how long does the website have to be? How will my website be out there in the web to show teachers and parents how to be informed?

The Discoveries

The struggle for a higher education for Hispanic/Latinos research has been informative with the information I have found. There are different factors towards them having support and faculty helping them out to succeed. Many students do not have support throughout the high school education and many students end up falling and not trying in school. Understanding a new way to educate Hispanic/Latino students ability to learn would be a great solution to solving the problem. In an article that I read it mentioned that coming from a low income house hold many students do not think that they could afford college and do not apply or try to go to a four year university. The poverty in the rural areas have teachers that do not try to do there best job to educate the future generation of Hispanic/Latinos or other races.

Interviewing the interviewee Jorge Lopez was an impact results that I did not expect having  completely opposite from the support that he received and the graduation rate was all the individuals. The teachers that taught him were highly helpful towards his success was a big impact. His fellow classmates went to attend community and he mentioned that “they were still currently enrolled in the community college” . There is still away to help out these individuals there is still other ways to have people be informed  Next step towards investigating is interviewing an individual from a poor high school because he mentioned that his school was decent and it stayed in my mind that it was a big factor towards his success.

 

The Findings

My research plan is to find some statistics of percentage of Hispanic/Latino success rate to get a higher education. I found this book that was written by organization that help students get a higher education and the flaws of the educational system for Hispanic/Latino.<http://www.nccpsafety.org/assets/files/library/The_Condition_of_Latinos_in_Education.pdf&gt;.

• The people that I am going to interview are going to be my past high school teachers I will see there point of view why Hispanic/Latino teenagers are doing in class and how they assist them if they need help?  Other people that I will interview are seniors at my old high school what they are going to do after high school and their plans for the future. With the information that I find, I will try to see where the flaw is in education  and inform people how to fix the problem of education how to help teens and children achieve a higher education.

Parents

My Mexican culture is protective over family no matter if there is problems going on and put aside their differences. Parents are just too much over protective still do not want their spouses to grow up fast. The does not matter usually in America when a teen turns eighteen there are seen as young adults. Saying that straight to my parents they would tell me OK then well “I am the one that works and gives you money not until you work and you can do whatever you want but that still has limits”, It is basically when I am not leaving under their roof I will have more liberty.

Many friends that I have have liberty and the parents rarely care because when they turned eighteen they saw them as adults. Going to places I still ask them for permission but it is embarrassing, it is showing them that they still have authority over me. Even though I am in college right now I have to go home for the weekend, last semester when class started I was going home every weekend the good thing is that I live in Sacramento two hours from Chico. When I came here to Chico my dad made sure that I had transportation so he bought me a car and would not have an excuse to decide not to go home.

It really is not bad in the  end because they do support me and care a lot about me with everything and our family bond is really strong. Financially my parents support me, last semester they gave me about 5,000 throughout the semester which was a big help that I did not have to get a job. When I get back to Chico they expect a call each day of the week or they freak and call me no matter what to see if everything is okay. In a heavy and long day it really is not very good idea to call them because they tell me you sound different and question me like if they are interrogating me asking for an explanation.

It was like a time I was really tire that they called me and said that I sounded if I was on drugs and when I went back home for the weekend and they just starred at me ever single move I did it was ridiculous. Later I found out because of my siblings that my parents thought I was on drugs I just laughed and told them I would never do that it would be a betrayal. II was hurt though I did argue with them for the first time why would you suspect that of me do you not trust me they said yes but still. Trust is huge for me if someone does not trust me well it is just a weakness that would hurt much. Later my parents said sorry and I forgave them but they said still do not do that sort of stuff and I just told them I did not do anything bad you do not have to worry. It is such big factor that plays in my life they thought me respect and how to be a discipline child with morals to to be thoughtful towards others and caring.

It has now been the second week of the second semester of college and I am taking 16 units which is going to be more challenging than the first semester. Especially since this semester I have a class with 300 students which is very different from the small high school classrooms. Going to class is not the only difficulty because living in Craig is a long walk to campus and throughout the week I usually have break periods about 1 hr and half so I go back to Craig. The struggle to then go back to campus though and mainly without food the whole day. Determination is the skill that I have and is the reason that I do not stop, it will be a tough semester but in the end it will be worth it completing 16 units but I am already here might as well accomplish finishing as many units.

First Blog Post

During High School my priorities were get good grades and the most was just getting in the soccer team. It was an exciting moment to be in the soccer team and especially because it was also the day that our school was facing the biggest rival. The game was intense no one could score it was a tight match. Then in a moment the ball was coming down and I jumped up and hit it with my chest but I jumped to high and fell on top of the other player. He then got up really quick and said what bro do you want to start something. Personally  I am not really a violent human but he started to push me and I just did not do anything. After the third push I pushed him with all my strength and dropped him because he mentioned that phrase “You don’t know how to play soccer” It was a trigger that made pissed off. I just tightened my fist and threw a punch and calmed him down he said that he did not want any problems. Then the referee kicked both out. The thought of saying that the other player said that I was not good I just exploded. To this day I have not just been mad if anyone says anything to me unless it is true. This experience changed me into a different person that’s why I am here to change and contribute to society  in a positive way. Actions that I took ruined my year to play the sport that I liked comments that offend should not be cared unless it is someone that cares about you.