Transfer Motivational Conference

In the transfer motivational conference my biggest highlight was the meeting the other Puente classes, I discuss with one of the other students about what they are learning and how are their teachers. There was many things in common that we had with many of the other classes, for instance once we got there I noticed that this program was very diverse, but Latinos being the majority group. All the Puente students that I met were very nice and polite, the experience was great. I think we should have gotten a longer campus trip so we could get an idea of the college life in a CSU. For my workshop i attended the AB540 class, but the instructor was very off topic. She talked about her success and she included Financial Aid something that i could not relate since i am a AB540 student, I think we would should have had an AB540 student that became successful throughout their college experience. This experience really brought our class together and i was able to see the "other side" of my fellow classmates, all this was part of the conference. I also think we should have had 2 workshops instead of one because i was interested in a couple of them but at the end i could only attend one. The food was great, the CSU system treated us really good and i felt very welcomed. I really like the presentation by the Latino attorney, he made a lot of points about community college and i really support his idea on the fact that community college should be free, education itself in general. I was really inspired by him, he showed our Latino community that we can go any where in life and all we have to do is work hard and never give up. I thought about his career and if he ever faced some type of discrimination since he was a Latino successor in an American society. At the end of the day i appreciate that he goes back and talks to younger generations and inspires them to be successful.