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My college experience has prepare me for my Child Development Career. My college experience obtains information I want to complete to be sucessfull in my Career. My college supports my financial aid needs. My experience guides me in the appropriate direction. My college supplies workshops which are important to building skills in my profession. My professors our leaders who encourge me in my career path. Each course I have completed has influence and empower my learning because the coureses subject relates to information I learn in the follwing fields Child Development, Chicano Studies, and Personal Skills Development. The courses relate because Child Development require Chicano Studies and Spanish 1-3 to earn a degree in Bilingual/bi-cultural and Personal Development is a skill that will allow me to grow in settings. Attending College has given me the opportunity to gain strong relationships with individuals of the community. The relationship I build at my college are the individuals I want to incorparate in my future Day Care business. My college eperience has made me excitied to know I will influence the lives of children through my education and I am glad to be strongly committed to a profession I enjoy.

I have obtained a wealth of knowledge and a sense of purpose. I understand the importance of giving back to one's community and contributing the betterment of society. I feel that one of the greatest ways to serve one's country is by helping fellow community members reach their fullest potential in life. My college experience opened my eyes to human suffering and pain caused by greed and selfness. I have learned that in order to save a people, one must serve the people and in order to lead a people, one must love the people.

I was a refugee, born and raised in a small town in Vietnam until the age of nine. I learned from Vietnam that poverty is directly correlated with the lack of education. My parents hoped that I'd pave the way for my siblings, but I did not know how until I found my interest. The curiosity of my myopic eyes led me to an optometry course at UC Berkeley. I then discovered how vision is strongly interrelated with health while learning of eye diseases. I also became aware of developmental disorders that children face early in their lives and realized the importance of optometry goes beyond my na?ve thought of glasses and contact lenses. Wanting to learn more, I took the Optometric Assistant position where I received full exposure to the demands and rewards of optometry. This is when I knew I have found my refuge .

My experience has taught me that college is more than just preparing for a career or making life-long friends. It has been about the fruitfull cultivation of self. When I first began studying Political Science and Anthropology, I thought it was to understand why other people did things. However, I have realized, more importantly, that my experience has taught me why I do things. College is about understanding your own human condition. Political Science has showed me the intricacies of how I am empowered, as a political actor, to contribute to domestic, national, and international political systems. Anthropology has taught me how I, as an agent, contribute to cultural common sense. The value of a college experience has not just been the pursuit of knowledge itself, but using that knowledge to understand who I am.

My first year in college has been definitely frustrating but more than rewarding. This is the first time that I have experienced the term responsibility. There isn't anyone there to tell me what to do. There isn't any tardy sweep if I came late to school and there are no consquences for forgetting to do my homework. In college, I am on my own. College has definitely taught me to be independent. Not only that, it has also taught me to work harder, for my competitions are fierce. I have to do that best I can do and excel in order to move on to the real world. College is one of the most valuable place that I can be at this point in my life. Not only that I have learned from the academic courses I've been taking but also from the professors that has given me more insights than I can ever grasp hold of. I've been filled with knowledge and will continue to expand it years i have left in College.

Attending UC Berkeley has given me the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of worldviews and new perspectives. It has been exciting, but in the end, it has refined me into being more grounded in my Christian beliefs than ever before. It has been valuable to attend because I learned that at the end of the day, friendships endure, while grades will not. At Berkeley, you'd find someone on every spot of the spectrum, whether the spectrum is political, religious, economical, ethnic, and so much more. In and out of the classroom, it was wonderful learning different viewpoints and philosophies, and the reasonings behind them. Interestingly, all this made me even surer about my Christian faith, even though that might have been unpopular to do amidst the college atmosphere of "find your true identity." Things that strengthened my Christian conviction comprised of, ironically, my failures: missing a paper deadline but being given an A anyway by a gracious TA who didn't even look at my paper; failing to submit a difficult assignment but consequently having that be the first step towards being freed from perfectionism, and the support of countless Christian friends I made on campus. =)

Well college so far has been a great experience; educationally and socially. Although I am only in my second semester it shows that you are no longer a kid. College is something for the people who push to achieve more than just the basics. College is great life awakener, you realize that you have to be determined, have patience and keep a steady pace so you wont get overwhelmed. College has allowes me to network and meet people that can either be a part of the team or help me climb the ladder of success. College does not guarantee anything unless you push yourself to strive to be the best. The college experience will step me up to the next level in my life to be where I want to be. I will be able to market myself well to the world to show what my talent offers.

After my first semester at UC Berkeley, I developed a brand new worldview and philosophy. My professors provided new ways of viewing the world and humanity as a whole. The research that I have done in my classes on poverty in developing nations and genocides occurring throughout the world has led me to change my intended major to, actually, a double major in Peace & Conflict Resolution and International Economic Development Studies. After speaking to representatives from the Peace Corps last semester, I plan to enlist in the Peace Corps to make a real difference in the world - without resorting to violence. Once I come out of the Peace Corps I plan to attend law school (possibly Stanford Law or McGeorge Law) and focus on International Law. From there I plan to enter the world of Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy or work for a charity. This is what my experience at UC Berkeley has done for me: it has given me the means, inspiration and encouragement to reach out and help others. I'm not attending a university so that I can make money later on - I'm attending college so that I can make a difference now and later.

From attending college I feel that i have a better understanding of what the world will expect out of me. it has taught me the importance of responsibility and punctuality. It has also taught me the importance of having an education. the reason that I say this is because I see all the older people that are going to school just so they can keep up with the technology that they use at work. I feel that by going to college so far that I am a little more ready to take my place in the world.

As a graduate student at California State University at Sacramento, I continue to enjoy a challenging and fascinating environment in which to discover the world's many intersecting pathways. Each class within each major builds and contributes to the next one, while education itself is the single most empowering pursuit possible. UCBerkeley has helped me discover both the pathways and the empowerment to find new ways to experience the world.