1/31/2024 0 Comments Letter to incoming freshmenBut more importantly, I have found the “you” who is at peace with oneself so much that all she wants to do is be happy, in turn being better for the people she cares so deeply about. Enjoy your time in college, and I can’t wait to see our parents ’, tias’, tios’ and tita’s faces when you’re wearing that graduation gown!Īt the end of my time here at Chico State, I finally found you-the “you” you and I have dreamt of becoming all of our lives: a confident leader a gifted storyteller and a charismatic, aware and intelligent future educator. You’re right where you need to be to become a change in the world for the better. Your seat at college was given to you for a reason do not doubt yourself in what you can do. You will study abroad, engage in cancer research, help develop volunteer programs and mentor so many others. That is part of becoming a success: proving to ourselves our own capabilities. I wish we would have had more pride in our presence as a first-generation college student. I wish we would have doubted ourselves less. In doing this, you won’t just begin to believe, but realize you belong at Channel Islands. Build your village of support-peers, supervisors and those who also look up to you as you give back to them. No matter how much you try to memorize an organic chemistry mechanism or try to juggle 20 roles at once, you need your community of people to catch you when you fall. Nobody told me this, but this process just cannot be done on your own, and that’s for a reason. You need to believe it’s the first step in changing yourself. The next few years will be life changing-you’ll transform from a person who hadn’t walked the middle school stage and barely got through high school into the queer man who just got into medical school with a scholarship. How’s it going? How are you feeling going into your first year of college and the rest of your life? Scared? I heard that’s a good thing! It shows you care. Dear Patrick (people call us Patricio now),
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