Social Justice Experience: My Experience From High School To College

I can’t believe that I just finished my first year as a college student. To be completely honest, it went by fast. Being on a college campus, let alone a college student was so surreal to me. It was really unbelievable. I learned a lot of things that I never imagined I would come across of learning. If I must admit, the transition from high school to college was arduous. I was like a bird that was waiting for its owner to tell me which way to go or what song to sing. In high school, there was a pattern that I had to follow in regards to the waking up, having breakfast, the student/teacher ratio/ etc. In college, it was completely different. Most of my classes were either in the afternoon or in the evening. So I had to get used to waking up or even going to sleep at a certain time. I know for a fact that I miss going to …show more content…
I went to college with the intention of majoring in Economics/Global Economics; however, I have decided to switch gear and focus more on social justice matter. I am now thinking of pursuing a major in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. I am affiliated with Oakes College, one of the ten colleges at UCSC, and their core values center around Social Justice Issues. Every freshman is required to take a Core class, a writing class that focus specifically on the themes of the ten colleges, and I had the privileged of learning about how our society functioned. It really made me more conscious of my surrounding and how systematic forces such as the media has played such a significant role on how underprivileged people of color view the world. This class made me more analytical and critical about certain things. It has definitely made me view the United States in a whole new perspective. I truly felt that this has made me grow as an individual because it solved most of the missing puzzles that did not made sense while growing