Every year, many students graduate high school and attend college. Through the student’s transition from high school to college, the students start to go through a maturation process. They start to grow as a person or notice new things about themselves that they never knew during high school. For example, many students start to have self-awareness or self-management in college, which they never possessed in high school. Also, students become more confident than they were in high school. Every student goes through a different maturation process than other students. My maturation process, that I noticed during my transition from high school to college was developing a sense of personal competence, managing my emotions effectively, becoming more
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From seeing my maturation process from high school to college, I learned to live my life based on my values and belief. In high school, I was scared to stand up for my beliefs and values. On the other hand, in college I learned to stand up for my beliefs and values because my beliefs and values make up a huge part of my identity. The first time I noticed my conversion was in my CHS-100 class. One day, our class was having a discussion on prejudice of Chicanos and how Chicanos have to hide their heritage. In my opinion, I thought the discussion was interesting because I can relate from personal experience of prejudice in the United States as being a Latino. Based on the discussion, I realized the prejudice I received as a Latino is the cause for me hiding my culture. After the seminar, I was proud to say I was a Latino instead of hiding my heritage because of the nomenclature name that society in the U.S. provided for our culture; our identity. During that seminar, I learned that being Latino was part of my identity and is my integrity I chose to live by. As a peer mentor, I want my mentees to know that at the end of the day, it is your life that you control and stand by. By showing my students to live by their integrity, it will create confident college
From seeing my maturation process from high school to college, I learned to live my life based on my values and belief. In high school, I was scared to stand up for my beliefs and values. On the other hand, in college I learned to stand up for my beliefs and values because my beliefs and values make up a huge part of my identity. The first time I noticed my conversion was in my CHS-100 class. One day, our class was having a discussion on prejudice of Chicanos and how Chicanos have to hide their heritage. In my opinion, I thought the discussion was interesting because I can relate from personal experience of prejudice in the United States as being a Latino. Based on the discussion, I realized the prejudice I received as a Latino is the cause for me hiding my culture. After the seminar, I was proud to say I was a Latino instead of hiding my heritage because of the nomenclature name that society in the U.S. provided for our culture; our identity. During that seminar, I learned that being Latino was part of my identity and is my integrity I chose to live by. As a peer mentor, I want my mentees to know that at the end of the day, it is your life that you control and stand by. By showing my students to live by their integrity, it will create confident college