I think I'm most proud of being able to
do what I wanted to do so being able to
actually come here go to college take
that step being alone up here and
actually be successful finish college
make connections find resources and now
I'm able to help students on campus I
think I'm really proud of accomplishing
my goal now I need to look into maybe
getting my masters or something like
that um but for now I think I'm proud of
being able to succeed here at Humboldt
State so I'm proud of being able to
finish the program that I was in to stay
up here and now I get to help the
students that are in the same shoes
some advice I have is myself when I came
up here I was alone so one of the things
I like to tell students is that they're
not alone there's a lot of students who
are on the same boat there's a lot of
students who are also first-generation
college students when I got here I had
no idea what I was doing we know whether
it be financial aid signing out for
classes anything like that and you just
need to reach out there's a lot of
resources on campus you just have to
find those resources you have to branch
out make some friends I'd say I'm very
close to my family and so being up here
away from family was very difficult but
once you start finding your groove and
once you start finding those resources
and making friends you you get used to
being up here on your own you obviously
will still miss your family go see your
family during the holidays definitely
but I'd say that in order to succeed you
do have to branch out and there's a lot
of staff and faculty on campus that are
here to help you and there's a lot of
students who are on the same boat so try
to find those students with similar
students and try to help one another out
and be their support system as well as
they can be yours
