Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Adrian Says: 


Teenage Wasteland was an interesting story. It’s not your average story where there’s a happy ending. Donny was a troubled child that had more connection with his counselor than his mom. I think that every parent should try to have a healthy relationship with their child and if their child has problems then the parent should deal with that and help their child themselves. Donny was different than others, but that doesn’t mean that you should let someone else deal with him and then become an important figure in his life. I learned that your relationship with your parents is something special and you should always take time to spend time with them because they are the ones that really care about us. If I had a really strong problem with my parent I wouldn’t deal with it like Donny did. I would try to sort things out with my parents and try to fix what’s wrong. A lot of us have problems growing up and that’ just the way of life. We need to confront our problems and not run away from them.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Christian Says:  On this story, we are able to see how far a son can drift without the parental aid and guidance. Daisy (mother)was so worried about what they'd think about her that she allowed her son's life to be driven by another person. Donny wasn't used to liberty because her mother was often overprotective and  he wasn't able to enjoy his adolescence as much as his friends. He also missed a father figure in his life. Even though nobody could see it, it was evident that the father not participating in his life was a factor in the road to his downfall. Donny was failing in class and the director recomended a tutor. The mother belived it was a good idea, therefore she took him to the tutor and trusted his son to him. She belived in his judgement, rather than on her own and blinded herself from being able to watch how his son was not progressing. By the time she decided to take matter in to her own hands it was too late. Donny had left the house. By not knowing how to resolve her distrust in herself, she made her son miserable in an indirect way. Obviously not in purpose.

I think that Daisy did everything in the best interest of Donny. She admited that her childhood was quite lousy and thought by giving him all those things she couldn't have she was going to make his life better. At the end, he didn't know how to handle it and lost his way.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Jose Says: This story was an interesting adventure in child psychology and the burden a mother feels in dealing with troubled youth. It is interesting to see how families in general will try and shape their children to the contours of society, forgetting the well-being of a child. Children have extremely sensitive minds and it is crucial to bring them up in comforting environments, or else they might grow up to have certain societal problems in the future. Daisy found something that made Donny happy, he was a happy go lucky kid as soon as he was able to start his tutoring. The inflexibility of the mother to help her child essentially cost her a son. Is she to blame? No. She was doing what she was taught to do with her child, trying to be a responsable parent. However, society has a tendency to be rather static in its memes. Hence, those who do not comform risk being left out of the loop. This is what ended up happening to Donny, sadly, he didnt have the personality to comform.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Beatriz Says:


This is a short story about a teenager and his relationship with his family. Donny has some problems at school and his mother is really worried about him. They decide to take him to a tutor, and they let the tutor take full responsibility, but then his mother realizes that she has done many things wrong. This story is a good example of a dysfunctional family. It is not entirely the son’s fault or the parent’s fault, it is both. His parents should have paid more attention to him and he should not have acted that way. When his mother was trying to help him, she did not pay any attention to her daughter, which at the end of the story starts distancing from her family. Clearly, their mother doesn’t know what to do, how to look out after her kids. She is too worried about her son to pay attention to her daughter. The mother should have believed more in her son, and have been there for him through that difficult time. Donny should have been more thoughtful, because his parents suffered a lot because of him all that time, and when he left.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Luis Says:

I think teenage wasteland is the perfect story of failed parenthood and failed self-discipline. I sort of see it as something both parents and us teenagers should read. The teenager should read it and reflect upon it and realize that he or she should never behave this way. Look upon the character of Donny and feel pity towards his situation and how he does not have his parents to help him out.  Imagine arriving at your house and not having your parents with you anymore, not dead, but they dont care anymore.  Imagine never again hearing your mother saying I love you.  Donny leaves his home and ends up living god knows where which if you think about it is the sadest thing that could happen to anyone.  On the other hand Daisy fails at disciplining his child which creates the problems which lead to the loss of her son.  Her lack of trying to care for her child and thinking time fixes everything slowly loosens the boy's connection to the family and the social standards of being the regular child who studies and grows up under a roof.  

In my opinion I would never go that far as for being a rebel.  I have sometimes thought of doing such a thing but minutes later have come to forget about it not because I need food and a bed, but because i feel guilty for my mom and because I would never ruin my life like that.  I plan on seeing my mother and family every possible day till the day I die.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Liane Says:


Teenage Wasteland was a very psychological story. I liked it a lot even though it was quite tragic. I understood Donny and his attitude towards his parents because I sometimes feel like I want to be apart from them and not have to listen to what they say and be able to do things I want to do. I like to do things on my own and be independent, so I can see where he is coming from but he is young and I am a little older so I have learned to gain privileges and obey my parents unlike Donny. It is disappointing the fact that his mother, an adult who is suppose to have sufficient maturity and should not be affected by society, is immensely affected by what people think of her and instead of making choices on her own, lets others influence on them and take over. When you grow you are suppose to make these changes. She should have followed her motherly instincts and not led Cal take care of Donny. There were so many signs that he was not the right person to be taking care of Donny. At the end of the day the child is living under your roof, under your conditions and you as a parent is responsible for his actions. What you say goes. This is discipline and without it we would all live in a wasteland. Every child, especially in the stage of adolescence needs a guide for his future and he must accept that not everything is going to be his way. Adolescents go through changes and we have to see beyond what attitudes that they portray because in the future they will be grateful to be a mature person.

Teenage Wasteland by Anne Taylor

Mariola Says:


I think this is a short story that represents the relationship that some mothers can have with their child. In this story, Donny is a problem child and Daisy, her mother, cannot seem to figure out what his problem is. The story takes us through all the things that Daisy tries to do to help her child. The main ideas that you see in the story are lack of communication and lack of parental control. You see how Daisy at the end lets all the responsibilities of her child go to his tutor and how she does not get involve with her son’s life. After some time, she really does not know anything about her son and she got the surprise that Donny was expel from his school. When this problem came, she realized that her boy was never really doing better in school. But at the same time, she felt that she had to believe in her son and she really didn’t do anything about her son attitudes and problems. Here you can se the lack of parental control. Sometimes parental control is very important because it helps you nurture your child and help you get in control with your son’s life. Daisy let her son do whatever he wanted and most importantly she let him manipulate her as the time went on. At the end of the story, Donny disappeared from his house and never came back. I think he did this because he felt that he didn’t have the control of things now. When her mother got him to a public school and didn’t let him go to the tutor’s house, this made him mad and felt that he could not control his mother anymore. He felt that the resolution for the problem was to go away. 

    In my opinion I think that in this story we can see how the son and the mother both fail to do their job as a family. We see these kinds of problems every day and you see how families can suffer a lot. For me being a parent has many responsibilities, and Daisy didn’t do her best on it. When you have a child who has a lot of problem you have to stick to him until you can help him go through all the things he is dealing with. I like the story because it made me realize that in real life there are a lot of families that deal with that kind of situations and it helps you see another perspective of life.
 

Views On Poetry

Christian Says:  Poetry is the art of writing words to make a beautiful point of view out of something. With poems, one is able to express different feelings in another way than the ordinary writing. Not like a story or like keeping a journal. It needs inspiration to make a powerful statement. An author expresses either his beliefs like his devoted love fot his nation, a lover and even revolutionary speeches included.
   In Puerto Rico I think the poems that stand out the most are patriotic ones. Puertoricans get all these feelings about independence, these authors make the effort to isnpire people to follow.
   The romantic poems are well know throughout the world. About love, it's easy to get any kind of inspiration because just feeling in love gives you all kinds of ideas it's likely you'll end up writing a poem, even whent it's not very good.
   I think the purpose of the poem is just to be able to write about  what one feels like inside and just writing about it in an artistic and inspiring way.

Views On Poetry

Luis Says: Poetry to me is the song of the soul. It is the way the heart communicates what it feels and speaks to the rest of us. Poetry has been important to me when I’ve been in love. I have written poems to girls and helped me express my feelings to them. One time I wrote a poem for a friend and she liked it a lot and showed it to all of her friends. I now look back upon it and think I made a fool of myself in a way. Poetry can make a difference in someone’s life if it helps him/her fall in love or someone else fall in love. I think I consider all songs to be poems. An example is romantic songs by Luis Fonsi. In terms of movies I really can’t recall a poem. Poems are an important part of literature and an expression of the soul.

Views On Poetry

Jose Says: I believe that poetry has its purpose, it is as old as language in my opinion, since Darwin himself said that language probably evolved from primitive song. While I do not subscribe to this theory, there are other numerous theories that language was helped along by song. Hence I believe that poetry has its rightful place in the annals of human history. However, I think that poetry should stick to its rightful medium... music. Poetry has always been about the musicality, so when I hear a poem without music, its similar to playing ping pong without the mini-rackets; you can use your hands and still enjoy it, but I get the feeling that there is something missing. Given the state of popular music these days, it is a little hard to find quality poetry in music, but when one searches enough, there are numerous very talented poets out there. Poetry as a writing form is difficult to read and understand, hence it is mostly reserved for people that have a very high level of language and knowledge. I find it funny how the mass media tends to make fun of poets as saying any cheesy line and everybody in the audience ooing and awing. I find this to be a sad reflection of the common perception of poetry, in that people think its just a bunch of words. How wrong they are...

Views On Poetry

Adrian Says: 

For me, poetry is a way to express your feelings and emotions through writtings. It uses rhymes and you have the liberty to express whatever you want and feel in poems. I’ve never been too interested in poetry, so I don’t have examples of when poetry was important to me, but I do remember a friend of mine, he had a girlfriend and he wrote her a poem and showed it to me before he gave it to his girlfriend, and I think it was pretty good because he really showed his emotions and how he felt in the poem.

Poetry can make a difference in someones life when it follows the messages of poetry and gains knowledge and uses those messages in the future. You can also write poetry, but is not an easy thing to do. Poetry doesn’t have limits and you can write about anything. I consider song lyrics and poetry to be the same, because they both express feelings and emotions and they rhyme. One song that is also a poem is “Patria” by Ruben Blades in wich he talks about native country in general. “Troy” es a movie from the Poem “Iliad” by Homer and the poem plays an important role in the movie, because basically the movie is bases on the poem.

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Beatriz Says: 


Poetry is a way of expressing how you feel. Most of the times, it rhymes and it is really easy to read it, because it has rhythm. In high school, we read many poems and we had to analyze them. I like to read poetry, but sometimes it is not easy to understand it, and it is worse to analyze it. Sometimes I find it very difficult to read, I have to be in the mood to read it. Poetry helps us understand how other people feel and the messages they try to send to us. Poetry makes a difference in someone’s life when that person is able to express his or her feelings in a poem. When someone is able to write a poem, and send the message they want, people feel free. Although it is not easy to write poetry, some people find it very easy and fun. I consider that song lyrics are poetry. Poetry has some musicality and song lyrics rhyme and have rhythm. Song lyrics are poems, because people express how they feel, they talk about love, life experiences, and other things. I believe that Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet movie is poetic. They talk in a poetic way and express how they feel. It is really important, because we can see everything that the author wants us to understand.

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Liane Says:


Poetry is everywhere. It is in the way you speak to your friends and family. It is in the way you write a story and the music we hear. I believe everything we write down is poetry. Poetry has musicality. It does not always have to rhyme. Mostly when I write I write down in a poetic way. I make sure my words have a pattern and rhythm whether they rhyme or not. I love incorporating a type of musicality when I write because it is the best way to express myself. In mi senior year in high school I took literature it was a great experience I enjoyed reading the stories and poems. We had to write many poems and my teacher recognized a couple of mines. She said my poems had a double meaning. I did mean for it to be that way though. I like using metaphors and other things to give life to my poem. It is cool to read something and then say, “Wait!, what she meant was.. “. When it comes to the lyrics of a song and the similarity it has with poetry, I think they are both the same. They have a meaning, they have power, they have musicality and they portray a message. Like I said this is my definition of poetry. One of my favorite songs if a poem it is called “Perfectly Blind”. I cannot recall a time in which poetry was important in a movie because most of the movies I watch are comedy or horror and mostly do not have to do anything with poetry. I am not a big fan of romantic movies in which I think that poetry might be involved in. Here is one of my favorite songs which is also a poem. 

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Mariola Says: 

Poetry can have different meanings, for me poetry is a type of writing that let you use your imagination and let you describe the things you feel, see, like or hear in any kind of way. The truth is that I don’t have examples of time when poetry was important to me. I have never been a real fan of poetry and in high school I felt obligated to analyze poems that I did not like. I don’t have any important experiences with poetry, but I remember a poem we studied in high school that interested me a lot. The name of the poem was “A Julia de Burgos” and the author is Julia de Burgos. I liked that poem because the author describes herself like she had another person inside her. Also it showed what the author was feeling and what she was thinking. I also learned a way in which people express their inner thoughts and emotions, and that is by writing poems.

Poetry can make a difference in someone’s life when the things you are reading, seeing or reading makes you feel important and happy. It can make a difference when you change things in your life, feel different emotions towards others and help others in your life. Song lyrics and poetry are the same because they both have rime, and they express feelings and thoughts that we have. There are both uses to express your inner self to others. People also use them to communicate with each other and share their emotions. A song that it is a poem is Cantares, written by Antonio Machado and Joan Manuel Serrat. A poem was important in the movie Patch Adams. The scene of the poem was when he was saying his goodbyes to his girlfriend, he recited a poem of Pablo Neruda called 100 love sonnets. It was important because it gave the movie a tone of sadness and compassion for Patch. It also represents how Patch Adams was feeling at the moment for the loss of his girlfriend and how he still feels deep love for her even though she is dead. It also demonstrates how poems can show the deepest feelings inside one’s body. We can see that poems are a reflexive way to show your ideas and imagination.

Why did I go to College?

Luis says: "I think education is the evolution from primitive thinking to rational and logical thinking.  Education is the tool to shape the minds of every individual.  It is the way for our society to progress and humanity to prosper."

Why did I go to College?

What is education to me? I believe education is the process or tool of evolution from thinking out of instinct to rational and logical thinking. When a baby is born he does not know how to communicate or do many of the daily things we do. Education is the tool we use to help his brain adapt to his surroundings. With it we teach him how to speak, properly hold a spoon, and maybe teach him his name. Through this process his brain starts to grow and begins to change. Slowly but surely in time he will learn to rationalize and be able to make decisions based on what was previously taught to him.


Education is essential in life. It is not something you can go without in these days. The world we live in is full of problems and situations that require educated decisions. Most companies higher the graduate with the highest average or if not they at least require a degree. I think education will keep on growing and we will be able to teach new things to our children, new words will appear on our language and they will be passed down through generations as it evolves and it keeps growing. Education will never stop changing and become more and more demanding every year, schools will teach more things, just as they do now from what they taught 30 years ago for example.

I came to college because, besides from the social experience and meeting a lot of new people, I also want to get a degree in accounting and be able to have a career as an adult. I want to leave college with the business knowledge and be able to join a company and use what I’ve learned during my classes and be successful. If I don’t take advantage of these years of college I’m afraid ill have a hard time finding a good position out in the field and not be able to compete with those colleagues that have trained and studied hard for their career.

It is hard to get real life experience in college since there are no classes that offer it but I guess that comes through the years and with a little patience. I will try to study and make these years the most productive I can because when I am released into this concrete jungle I need to be able to hold my own. I can honestly say my education will play the largest role in helping me survive in our modern society.

Why did I go to College?

Christian says: 

Why did I go to College?

Last night I was watching the movie The pursuit of happiness and in a scene, actor Will Smith said “There were three lines below highschool for more education, I didn’t need that many lines”. Even though I was a funny remark, I couldn’t help but understand the situation. The importance of education. I think most people go to college because their parents push them towards it. Not because they willingly want to, at first. But, as we grow older, we learn the importance of a good education, therefore, we go to college. It is important to make having a degree a goal because as we set it in front of us, we drive towards it in the hopes of achieving it. Also, we are living at difficult times and the world needs the aid of capable professionals. In college, a part of the process is not only to be educated, but also maturing and viewing things from another perspective. By watching things from another view, we can be more aware to other we might’ve not been before and our opinions could change for the better. It provides us with the maturity highschool doesn’t fully give us. As we go along in college, it gives us the opportunity to work with classmates, and we become more of social people and we learn to be liked by others or if not necessarily liked but at least we make the effort to work together. We gain communication skills and leadership. It’s not only a wonderful preparation but a perfect one also for adulthood. When we complete the whole journey, we find ourselves capable of sustaining a family and providing them with food, shelter and all the things that make education worth the long while.

Why did I go to College?

José says:

Why did I go to College?

I consider myself to be extremely fortunate when it comes to my education. Many people might think that being a 25 year old still in college is not exactly something to be proud of. I think it is actually a more rewarding experience having the added maturity that comes with 5 or 6 plus years of life. The reasons why I started late, in my view, are sort of a blessing in disguise. I would not be the person I am today without going through the things I went through before I entered college, however cliché that may be. The important thing is that I have found my true calling and that I made what I believe to the be right decision. A bachelor’s degree is a terrible thing to waste.

Ever since I was a little kid, I had a fascination with martial arts and I really enjoyed these types of movies. I remember renting Hong Kong Cinema kung fu movies at a video store in Condado and enjoying them a lot. Soon I started to notice how musical and pleasant the Cantonese language (main Chinese language spoken in south of China and the main language of immigrants in the USA and PR) was. I also began at this time to watch anime films and series, which also peaked my interest. Soon after I grew a fascination for the Japanese language as well. I began independent studies in which I taught myself how to be somewhat literate in Japanese. Later I had the good fortune of taking French in 11th grade, which really motivated me to excel in the language. I was probably the top student in the class and definitely the only person who took French that year who can actually speak it today. Seeing how interested I had become in languages, I was presented with the chance to move to Houston, where my brother lived, and finish off my senior year there. I immediately took as many languages as I could and it was great. In my senior year I would end up taking French, Mandarin, and Japanese. Once I finished high school, it was clear how much I liked languages. Or was it?

Languages were not profitable, nor were they a viable profession, at least not in the eyes of some of my family members. This compelled me to choose business as my major. That didn’t last very long. Within 2 semesters I dropped out and joined the working force. My career as a waiter saw me start small and would eventually have me making more money than the average government employee could ever hope to see. However, this was not fulfilling. At first I believed that changing profession would do the trick. I immediately changed to the computer industry and began designing web sites for a company. This also did not last that long. It was soon clear that I needed to get back into school, but my skewed view of professional vs. personal preference was still not strong enough to force my conviction. Hence, I rejoined school under the same major as before and thankfully it did not take long before I realized that I should just take languages.

To this day, I cannot think of a better decision in my life. This new turn has really strengthened my belief in myself. I now see the professional I can become. I have always been the type of person to give just the right amount of effort to complete a task, never going beyond that unless I was genuinely interested in something. With language learning, I do not have that problem, and since I learn what I truly want to learn, it really helps motivate me to work hard in other areas of my education.

Why did I go to College?

Adrian Says: "For me, education is an experience that somebody goes through and learns something new at the same time. I considered education a privilege that not many people have. Its an opportunity in which you gain knowledge through teachings or experiences. You can basically receive an education anywhere as long as you are learning something new. Since we were born we receive an education by our parents teaching us basic things, but as we get older our education expands and we learn new things by the school, our parents, friends and life experiences." 

Why did I come to college?

Education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. It’s the process by which society deliberately transmits its knowledge, skins and values from one generation to another. For me, education is an experience that somebody goes through and learns something new at the same time. I considered education a privilege that not many people have. Its an opportunity in which you gain knowledge through teachings or experiences. You can basically receive an education anywhere as long as you are learning something new. Since we were born we receive an education by our parents teaching us basic things, but as we get older our education expands and we learn new things by the school, our parents, friends and life experiences.

College is an institution of higher learning that grants us an opportunity to receive a bachelors degree, a masters degree or a doctors degree. Since we were little we went to elementary school and continued our way up to high school, and we graduate. When we graduate most of us want to go to college, but why necessarily? A lot of students are forced by their parents to go to college and receive education. Others want to go to college because they force themselves to go and want to get a higher education. Some people don’t get the chance to go to college and get to miss out on an experience that betters our lives.

For me personally, I went to college because college is an opportunity to gain universal knowledge and with that, become a better person in the future and become a successful professional. I went to college because it is full of experiences, not just a academically, but also fun experiences with friends. College expands your horizons and with that you start to see life in a different way. Right now I’m studying accounting, but I am thinking abut transferring to art. I love art and I’ve been drawing since I was very little. I also went to college so I can be more prepared in the future and also to meet new people. Basically college is full of opportunities and experiences that I don’t want to miss out on and are very important in the future. That’s why I went to college.

Why did I go to College?

Beatriz says: ''Education is any act or experience that has an effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of a person.  Education is the process by which the society transmits its knowledge from one generation to another.  You get an education at school, by learning from books, teachers, etc.  Also, you can get an education from your experiences and how your parents have taught you to act or do things."

Why did I go to College?

When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life, I was a little girl, around ten years old. I said: “I want to be a dentist”. And ever since that day, I started thinking what I would become when I grew up. Eventually, as I was growing up, I started to change what I wanted to be. But I knew one thing for sure, that I had to go to college, so I could be whatever I wanted to be.
My parents influenced in my decision, because I know they regret what they did when they went to college. They both had the intelligence to do everything they wanted, but they followed their role models, their parents. Right now, they think that they could have done much more than what they did, but it is too late. That is why I wanted to do something that I liked, but that would be good for my future, too.
My goal is to study Medicine, and I know I will be very good at it. College is not easy, but it is worth all the hard work, because I know in the future it will pay up. I am really happy with the decision I made, because I love to learn. In my opinion, college is very important in our lives, because it helps to develop who we really are. College is a really big step for every person that wants to achieve their goals.
This is my first year of college, and I am really happy that I chose to study General Science, because I love science and it is really good for my future. I would not like to work for someone else. That is why I chose Medicine, because I can be the boss of myself. In Medicine I can go to different areas, but right now I think I would like to work with babies and little kids. It is easier to work with them, than with older people, and they are much cute.
I don’t regret my decision of coming to college. This will be a good experience that will lead me through life. I did not come to college because of anyone else; I came because of me, because I wanted to do it. I will learn many things from this experience and I am not letting anyone else decide what I am going to do with my life. This is my decision and I know what is good for me.

Why did I go to College?

Liane Says: " There are two types of education for me; Education given in schools, institutions, colleges, etc. and education taught on the streets, at home, in church, or with your friends. Everyday we are taught something whether it be voluntary or involuntary. What we choose to learn is what we apply in our life and how we constitute ourself as a person. Education is the knowledge you gain in the process of learning. It is a matter of absorbing all the information and somehow molding this into one character which is YOU! Choose wisely and make the right decisions!" 

Why did I go to College?

Mariola Says: ''The definition of education is not the definition I would use. In my opinion education is when you are able to learn from experiences and from the things you see in your life. I do not like to learn by the teacher delivering knowledge to the students. The best education is the one that you are able to debate, talk and hear the opinion of everyone around you. In the classroom the best education is the one that you can communicate and talk with the professor. The sum of all this types of education is the ones that make you learn and be able to understand everything around you." 

Why did I go to College?

Since I was a little girl, I have always been influence about going to college. My father is the President of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico and he has always told me the importance of getting a higher education to contribute to a better society. He has taught me how my college experience is going to be and how I could use it in the future. The truth about all this is that I have never sit down and think why did I want to go to college. In my life, college was a normal thing to do and I never asked any questions about why I had to go to college. This is the first time that I am going to think about the influences and ideas of what got me to college.

My high school years were the best of my life. I was president of my class in my third year of high school, got really good grades, was in a really good school and had all my things in order to get to college. When my senior year arrived, we all had to stop for a minute and ask ourselves what did we want to do after graduation. The answer for that question was easy: I was going to college because I wanted to. In my school, the faculty and administration promoted us with the idea of going to college and we all thought that is was a pretty good one. I think that it is a good idea because that way we can learn new things, be better persons and, best of all, study what you have always wanted to be when you grow up. In high school, I loved all my science classes and my electives were all in science. That’s when I realized that I wanted to study biology to become a doctor. That senior year I applied to University of Puerto Rico where I got accepted and started in the Natural Science faculty.

When I got to college, I loved my faculty and started to get more interested in the science things. I have had the best experience with my professors. I have learned from all the points of view that there are; not always I have agreed with them but I think that that’s part of your learning experience. My parents have always encouraged me to be strong and keep going and the reality is that without them I could not make it. My field of study is really hard and sometimes you get really upset and tired because it demands a lot of work. Sometimes these kinds of things are the ones that make me wonder why did I choose to go to college. But then I realize that this hard work is going to pay later and be really rewarding.

Both of my parents have gone to college and for each one of them was a different experience. My mother got to go to Spain in her college years; there she got a really good opportunity to learn from new experiences. My father studied in the USA and he got a really different experience than my mother. These experiences that my parents had are the ones that motivated me to college. With their encouragement and the help of my high school, I got the idea of going to college. Writing this essay I realized that I went to college to learn new things, get new experiences, construct my personality and life, and meet new people who share their points of view and help me see all the different perspectives that are in our world. College is the first step you take to get a better point of view of life. These few years we spent on college are the ones that make progressive people who help evolve and make a better world. Our generation has the responsibility of making this world work and prepare it for future generations.