{"id":14319,"date":"2020-12-02T00:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2020-12-02T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:27:56","slug":"college-latina-xperience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/02\/college-latina-xperience\/","title":{"rendered":"College Latina Xperience!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUR VOICE COUNTS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>s a Hispanic female studying at the University of Idaho, I work for the Crisis Hotline in Idaho, the Blaine County Charitable Fund, the Argonaut (the school newspaper), Blot Magazine (the school magazine), and take on projects around campus and personal-work endeavors whenever possible. In addition to all of that, I am also a DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] recipient, which means my journey in opening up and taking chances has always been difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t start thinking about college until I was a junior in high school, and even then I wasn\u2019t sure if I wanted to because of financial struggles. My parents were always mentioning financial struggles and I didn\u2019t want to add to that pile of stress.<\/p>\n

However, their unending support with my studies and hoping to see success gave me that push to apply to out-of-state colleges, in-state colleges and community colleges of all kinds. And although I didn\u2019t end up going to Harvard or the University of Southern California, I ended up learning quite a bit about how important it is to take advantage of what you do have and started my college journey at the College of Southern Idaho.<\/p>\n

Within this, the most important advice I can give to an undocumented student and\/or a Hispanic female that comes from a low-income family is to be aware that anything is possible if you truly want to achieve something for yourself. Going to a top-tier school can be great, but it is also about experience, being passionate about those experiences and showing future job offers why you are just as worthy. Never doubt where you end up\u2014it could lead to something amazing!<\/p>\n

NUESTRA VOZ CUENTA<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

C<\/span>omo mujer hispana que estudia en la Universidad de Idaho, trabajo para la L\u00ednea Directa de Crisis en Idaho, the Blaine County Charitable Fund, el Argonaut (el peri\u00f3dico de la escuela), Blot Magazine (la revista de la escuela), y asumo proyectos alrededor del campus y los esfuerzos de trabajo personal siempre que sea posible. Adem\u00e1s de todo eso, tambi\u00e9n soy una recipiente de DACA, lo que significa que mi viaje en la apertura y el riesgo siempre ha sido dif\u00edcil.<\/span><\/p>\n

No empec\u00e9 a pensar en la universidad hasta que era un estudiante de secundaria e incluso entonces, no estaba segura si quer\u00eda ir debido a las dificultades financieras. Mis padres siempre mencionaban problemas financieros y yo no quer\u00eda a\u00f1adir a esa pila de estr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Sin embargo, su apoyo sin fin con mis estudios y la esperanza de ver el \u00e9xito me dio ese impulso para aplicar a las universidades fuera del estado, las universidades en el estado y los colegios comunitarios de todo tipo. Y aunque no termin\u00e9 de ir a Harvard o al University of Southern California, termin\u00e9 aprendiendo un poco sobre lo importante que es aprovechar lo que tienes y comenc\u00e9 mi viaje universitario en el College of Southern Idaho.<\/p>\n

Dentro de esto, el consejo m\u00e1s importante que puedo dar a un estudiante indocumentado y\/o a una mujer hispana que proviene de una familia de bajos ingresos es ser consciente de que cualquier cosa es posible si realmente quieres lograr algo por ti mismo. Ir a una escuela de primer nivel puede ser genial, pero tambi\u00e9n se trata de experiencia, ser apasionado por esas experiencias y mostrar futuras ofertas de trabajo por qu\u00e9 eres igual de digno. Nunca dudes de d\u00f3nde terminas, podr\u00eda conducir algo incre\u00edble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OUR VOICE COUNTS As a Hispanic female studying at the University of Idaho, I work for the Crisis Hotline in Idaho, the Blaine County Charitable Fund, the Argonaut (the school newspaper), Blot Magazine (the school magazine), and take on projects around campus and personal-work endeavors whenever possible. In addition to all of that, I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuestra-voz-cuenta","7":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}