Making the Transfer Experience Intentional

Hi everyone and congratulations to all the incoming transfer students! My name is JuliValdivieso. I study African Americans Studies and I am a second-year transfer student. Itransferred two years ago from Ventura Community College. Like my most transfer students Ihave had quite the journey getting to UCLA. I transferred from two different community colleges from…

Searching for today, but instead I found tomorrow

Early on in my schooling, I internalized messages that college was not for me. As a first-generation, low-income, non-traditional Chicano student, I clearly remember being told by my high school science teacher to “get used to taking order at McDonald’s” after him accusing me of being drunk. In addition to these messages, I was also…