Hi everybody, my name is Cynthia Morales and today we're gonna be doing a
personal Q&A with an Ambassador. So
Ambassador, what is your name? Hello
everyone, my name is Jose Rodriguez.
Alright what's your major Jose? My major
is Political Science to Transfer. Okay
and why did you choose that major? Um
ever since I was a teenager I've been
very into politics and I believe that I
could help out at least my community and
help it grow with my um major. Alright
and how long have you been attending Rio Hondo college? Um this is actually my
first year. Okay great, I'm gonna ask
you some questions about Rio Hondo in
general, what do you think is unique
about Rio Hondo College? Um to be quite
honest the way it's built its up in a
very big hill and if you get parking in
the bottom it's uh it's a walk if you
decide to walk it, but I feel all the
staff are very happy and very patient
with you if you ever need any questions
or anything. So I say that Rio Hondo is
unique by how friendly it is. Alright,
good you know. What is the best way to
prepare for college? I believe it is very
mental. So if you have some sort of
academic grit I feel like that's amazing
and I feel like some students should
work their way to achieve academic great.
mm-hmm okay
Are professors available to give
individual attention if students need it?
Yes a lot of my professors that I've had
I've taken like what five classes and
all these professors are super happy
for you to reach out like they never
try to shun you or put you to the side
it's always very they're very willing to
work with you. Okay. Yes. Alright well
that's good to know,
I'm gonna ask you some questions about
transferring. When do you plan to
transfer? Um I just got off the phone
with the counselor. Okay. I am planning to
transfer Spring 2021. Nice alright
that's pretty soon. That's awesome. Alright
what is your dream transfer
University? It would be Cal State Long
Beach. Beach alright awesome, what career path do you plan to take after you earn
your four-year degree? Hopefully a
District Representative. Oh okay
so a civil servant type of thing? Im sorry? A civil servant position. Yes.
Okay that's great. One thing that you
look forward to once you do transfer? The
satisfaction of getting my diploma
knowing how close I am and yeah. Alright
good, that is something to be super proud
of. Campus involvement, what do you guys do
for fun on campus? Um
I cannot speak for everyone else, but
there are a lot of like events and stuff
like Club Rush and all that there's a
lot of free things being given out
there's jumpers and stuff like
But free and you really don't have to
do anything to take part of like all
these events and everything. What I like to do I enjoy some alone time. So
what is go behind the library like in
the bottom and look at the view of like
LA and the mountains and stuff. On
some days you can see the Hollywood
sign so enjoy that. Yes that's what I've 
heard. I haven't seen it myself, but that's what I've heard.
Yes, you can see it on a good day. What motivated
you to get involved on campus?
To be quite honest, I wasn't involved in
high school or anything like this so I
just give it a try because I always wanted
to get involved and like with my major
it's a good way to get out of my comfort
zone. Okay, yeah of course. Now I've heard that you're a part of LEGACY. Yes. Can you tell
us a little bit about it? So LEGACY is a
Latino male program and this program
they help you and mentor you through the
year that you're accepted and there's
like a lot of ways they can help you for
example I have a mentor and it was
Brenda Beza shout out to her, she's
amazing, she helps me with so many
things and at the moment I'm struggling
with very personal things going on and
I've contacted Brenda about this to get
some stress out of me and just you
know talk about it and she's helped me
by sending me resources and stuff like
she's giving me a counselor and
stuff like today she helped me with that.
There's a thousand dollar scholarship if
you get accepted. Oh wow. Yes and so if
you want free money then go ahead and at least apply. There's a lot of workshops
also to help you understand what it's
like being a Latino male and what type
of like standards are set by Latino
culture. It's very this program helped me
so much since it was my first year it
was very easy for me to transition from
what I was doing previous the previous
year and to college. Mm-hmm is it hard to
join LEGACY? It's a few amount of people
that get accepted and I believe one of
the requirements was to have at least a 3.0.
Oh okay. Yes. So there's like an
application you have to fill out? Yes you
do. Okay, got it. Typically, what are the time commitments of the LEGACY Program? I know
you mentioned like workshops and maybe
one-on-one with your mentor. Yes. Are there any other time commitments?
One-on-one with the mentor is they
recommend you to at least meet once a
month which I have but you're always
free to reach your mentor actually like my
mentor I have her phone number and her
email so if I ever need anything or if I
ever need to talk to someone I could
just you know send her a text or an
email real quick and she'll respond like
within minutes. And the workshops are
once every two months or so it all
depends on their agenda and everything.
Okay and regards to your involvement
what kind of connections have you made
due to your involvement on campus? From the LEGACY Program or in general?Just in General. In General the
Student Ambassadors I've connected more with students made a couple of friends
and with the Legacy Program I've made a
lot of friends with the staff and
making friends with staff it's like it doesn't
hurt because if you ever need like
letter of rec you could always go to one
of the staff members. Oh yeah super
valuable. Yes it is. Alright well good to know, thank you so much for answering some of these
questions that kind of concludes our
personal Q&A is there anything that you
wanted to share with students new or
continuing. Yea
actually, it's very exciting to start at
Rio everyone is very helpful and please
if you ever need any help or anything
just either contact I don't know Student
Ambassadors like any person in the
campus would love to help you out so
please don't be shy or anything just
please ask for help it's okay to ask for
help. Yeah of course, alright thank you so much
for your time and we hope to share some
questions with you later okay. Alright
thank you. Thank you.
