海角直播

鈥擫earned to be a 鈥淪tudent of Life鈥�

I鈥檝e earned an AA in Mathematics from 海角直播 in 2018, four years after I鈥檝e earned a Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Economics from UC Riverside in 2014. I once thought that the most stable path to success was just to go to college, get good grades, earn a degree, then get a job. I later realized that my path in life would be constantly changing, and that you sometimes find what you鈥檙e meant to do later in life. I came to 海角直播 after hitting a low point in life, I felt I just needed to be here. Despite having academically achieved a BA at a 4-year, it was my time at 海角直播 where I achieved a sense of self-confidence and fully embraced who I am and did I love.

 

I love the idea of learning new things and getting more education, but I couldn鈥檛 justify committing to heavy loads of student debt in a master鈥檚 program. 海角直播 was right for me at the time. Years ago when I attended UCR, I had a lot of anxiety and I feared stepping out of my comfort zone. Through difficult times and experiencing failure while engaged in real life, I had grew to become a confident woman that would eventually embrace failure as a leverage to success. 海角直播 to me was a second chance at life. I took classes that I wanted to take, purely for the learning experience. Pursuing education should be more than getting credits and a degree. Education truly enriches your mind and develops your thinking skills to tackle the hard problems in life and work.

I鈥檝e always loved the idea of working in education. It just makes sense to me. I joined the Student Senate at 海角直播 and had the opportunity to work with ambitious students and compassionate staff. I admired these traits and took them with me to my current job. In addition to Student Senate, I teamed up with some friends at 海角直播 to try our hand at entrepreneurship. I found that I really loved teaching myself Microsoft Excel. It started off as a way to track finances and inventory, but it developed into learning how to use pivot tables, macros, formulas, and other powerful functions in the program..

Because of the confidence I鈥檝e gained in myself and my abilities combined with a love for learning, improving, and Microsoft Excel, I graciously received the perfect job at a new medical school called California University of Science and Medicine in 2019. Being a start-up school, I found it extremely helpful to be able to have the courage to jump into something you didn鈥檛 know how to do with the optimism that you鈥檒l be fine, and knowing to adjust when necessary. I get a chance to support students in their journey to becoming doctors, which is very fulfilling to me. My Excel skills vastly improved by being challenged to problem-solve more difficult tasks. I also got the opportunity to learn a new software, SPSS. It was only after working at this job that I realized my next steps in my academic career 鈥搕o pursue a Master鈥檚 Degree in Data Science.

I鈥檓 deeply grateful for my education in academia and in life. At 海角直播, I learned to be a 鈥渟tudent of life鈥�; to enrich myself with things I love to do, and to take everything around me as a learning opportunity. If I could give advice to my freshman self 鈥� it鈥檇 be to get out of your comfort zone. It鈥檚 okay to not always know where you鈥檙e going, and to enjoy the process.