In response to your comment, I would like to say that I am glad you have realized that going to a community college is not as pathetic as you thought. I to, felt alittle ashamed to attend a community college, but in a different sense. Plenty of my family members are people whom you expressed as "students who were handed their college opportunity on a silver platter with all the fixings: money, room and board, perfect classes, and a family who seemed to have endless amounts of money in the bank." I don't have that opportunity. So compared to my other family members, I felt embarassed and I did feel less of a person.
I was raised in a lower class family who couldn't afford to put me through college, let alone food on the table and clothes on my back. Growing up without the resources I needed really affected my life. I couldn't focus because I was so upset at the fact that I didn't have what all my peers had-privileges. I made a lot of wrong choices in my life and my priorities weren't straight. I slowly became to realize that what I was getting myself into wasn't the path I wanted. My trials and tribulations opened my eyes and mind.
I began to realize that I could do better and become the person I knew I could be. But I thought to myself where do I start? community colleges of course!! They are made for people like us- the underprivileged. They are open doors of opportunity for people like me who couldn't get into a UC let alone afford it. My perspective has changed tremendously. And again, I am pleased to say, I am glad your perspective had changed as well.
-Jennifer Gonzales Eng 1A Ms. Sabir 9-950
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