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嗨，Yareli，所以我们显然已经认识了，但是对于那些正在观看此视频的观众，我只想介绍

我自己，我的名字是 Anita Casavantes 布拉德福德，我是

历史和奇卡诺拉丁裔研究的副教授，我 我是第一代大学生

，也是我们家族中第一位完成学业的女性 高中，你为什么不也介绍一下

你自己呢。大家好，我是亚雷利·卡斯特罗 (Yareli Castro)，我是政治学三年级学生，即将成为

历史双学位学生。我也是一名无证学生，因此这是第一代的补充。

非常感谢，谢谢 来这里只是为了开始一些事情

我希望你回想一下是否 这是童年或高中或

无论什么时候 您首先决定要去

上大学？我不 我不认为我有 当我决定

我要去上大学时，我想到了一个时刻 我一直在

脑子里想的事情就像我要去上大学一样。

回到墨西哥时，我的父母都想成为律师，但结果并没有完全实现，因为我们来自

锡那罗亚州，所以我猜是政治原因 政治气候中的频谱变得有点忙碌，所以我妈妈

我无法真正上大学，我爸爸

也没有上大学，所以当他们 决定开始移民，所以我们

开始来到美国 类似的事情，所以当我来到这里时，

只是我所做的事情之一 就像哦，这真是令人兴奋

美国有很多非常好的东西 大学，所以我想我

要去大学，但我认为在高中 学校 我去了一所非常小的高中

学校，所以我们大约有 500 人 总的来说，作为一名无证学生，这对我来说真的很难，因为我们的辅导员

并不真正知道这意味着什么 无证，所以我必须真正寻找

资源和我必须教育的内容 我自己就很多问题进行了解答，例如

经济援助我如何申请 这里的经济援助是州内学费

以及类似的事情

，所以我花了很多年的时间 我真的是自己学习了这一切

，我不可能不这样做 要去上大学

只是因为我花了四年的时间学习 关于一切，我做了一个研究

项目，在其中我找到了方法 我可以煽动其他无证

学生来大学，所以我 就像我不会虚伪地不去大学一样，但我

告诉你你应该去 大学，所以这成为了

的事情之一，我不可能不去上大学，所以我有

非常好的成绩，诸如此类的事情 希望我能够来到这里

，这真的很令人兴奋。 所以你是 不仅要成为

家中第一个上大学的人，还要应对 在法律规定的时候，还要处理作为无证

学生的问题 加州的变化速度比

大学系统和高中的变化还要快 学校系统可以跟踪正确的

，所以我的意思是我们已经与其他系统进行了交谈 学生们谈论如何进入大学

对他们来说有点像进入大学 外国吧，你不会说

你不知道规则的语言 如果您是

的无证学生，那么这就更加正确了 从您的角度来看，

既是无证身份又是第一代有何不同 学生？在大学？我想说只是因为

对教师的培训不足 等等，所以我记得在这方面我去

经济援助，我只是 提出一些问题，比如你见过

我的《加州梦法案》之类的问题 他们会说哦，我不确定

让我问别人吧，这样人们就可以了 当我去问问题时他们没有

自己回答，他们必须问哪个 向我表明他们并没有

接受过真正的培训，而且他们不知道如何 确实对我们有帮助，我们遇到了很多

的问题，例如

中的法律问题和心理问题就像我们很多人的健康问题一样 就像我们没有保险或者我们有

一样，所以很高兴来到这里，只是 当我看到我的父母和 他们就像生病时一样挣扎，因为

...

是那些压力很大的时期之一 因为这是很多钱

，而且我妈妈病了一段时间，她 没有保险，那就像

，一段非常紧张的时期，不仅像 在情感上和经济上，

真的很有压力，所以来到这里 自己解释

真的很困难，就像我没有证件一样 这就是无证的含义，

这是我需要的额外帮助 你要不是他们无法给出

你喜欢具体的答案并且真的 告诉您并一路引导您

，因为他们不了解您的情况 身份

这真的很难，只是 额外的课程压力就像

最重要的是，真的和 真的也在与我的身份作斗争

真的很艰难，哦我可以告诉你吗，可以吗 我相信你不会出卖我的权利，

发生了很多事情 当我开始告诉人们我

无证时，我知道我不在乎，但是 那个阶段有很多人没有

，所以有点困难 真正处理这两件事。

所以你要成为第一个 在家庭中上大学，您的

应对无证身份 您正在处理的学生在

个完全不同的地方 家庭问题 所有这些都是正确的，我认为在很多

种方式中，这对于许多人来说可能是常见的 第一代学生正确记录或

未记录所有这些额外内容 挑战，但你已经成功了

，正如我所知，你正在成功 你的 GPA 很高，我知道你

在法律预科课程中度过了暑假 你知道你在 UCI 法学院

取得了成功，那么秘密权利是什么 在 UCI 的最后

几年里，您学到了什么 已经帮助了您并且可能会帮助其他

第一代学生取得成功？ 我的第一个 我可以说，这个季度是我最糟糕的季度

，但我做得还不错，我仍然做到了 迪恩的荣誉清单，但这是我的第一个

季度，我认为最艰难的 部分是真正掌握了

季度系统的窍门，它非常快。 我 记得我开始时

已经很弱了8。我当时想天哪，所有的时间都去哪儿了？

位教授就遇到过这种情况。

是的，所以这真的非常艰难，即使现在我是社会

科学学院的学术顾问，我注意到这一点，就像 像人们的第一个

个季度这样的大模式几乎是最糟糕的 从我的经验来看，

我总是需要有人在我身边 可以帮助我的课程，所以我总是

和我的朋友们一起上课 政治学专业和诸如

之类的东西，我做得很好，因为我学习过 我无法自己学习的小组 我

无法跟上自己阅读的进度 就像我必须与某人交谈，因为

与某人交谈要容易得多 关于内容，然后阅读它

并在课堂上集中注意力，所以所有 在我真正

补充的学习小组中，它也确实很有帮助，我学到的是我真的很喜欢我的专业

，而且有人来做它 因为他们的父母告诉他们或

因为他们想在这个领域赚钱 未来，所以这并不是

他们真正想做的事情，所以我已经 注意到如果不是这样的话

他们对我自己的看法就像是的，我 想要成为这个专业，他们通常不会

做得很好，当我 当我在

办公室与学生交谈时，我可以判断他们是否想修读该专业

，而且我认为这很难，因为你 你所做的每件事都需要有非常好的背景

，这样我就知道 对于像

这样的很多经济学专业的人来说，如果你没有良好的数学背景，你就不会做好事，这会影响你

，所以我注意到就像你需要的那样，你需要确保

你正在做你想做的事情，并且 你喜欢做的事情，你会做得很好

，而且你会比不做的时候做得更好。 所以让我们稍微讨论一下

，因为这引起了我的共鸣 因为当我还是一名本科生时，你知道

我真正感兴趣的是 对社会学感兴趣 我对发展研究感兴趣

我对发展研究感兴趣 在拉丁美洲研究中，但我和

所以我用了我所有的选修学分 研究我喜欢的东西，但我

已经决定我是 将获得英语和

历史学位，因为这些是可以教授的 我要让我的老师获得

证书，并且我要好好学习 像很多第一代学生一样

来自低收入家庭的学生 你认为上大学是我为了找到工作而做的

，所以我没有 让自己灵活地

选择我想要的任何专业 最终，这一切对我来说都成功了

，对，我最终达到了我想要的目标，但二十年后，您会对

合法的学生说什么 担心你知道大学毕业后需要

一份工作，他们确实认为 当他们选择他们的专业

时，你会对他们说什么 我告诉学生的是，是的，你

可能会做一些让你做好准备的事情 为了找到一份工作，但即使在其中

，但你可能不会获得良好的 GPA 这对

来说看起来不太好，对吧，这可能不会让你找到一份好工作，而在

另一方面，你可以做你真正

想做的专业，并且你的GPA得到反映， 你会做得更好，所以这就是我

诚实地告诉人们你需要喜欢称重 你想做的事与

找一份工作，因为它就在眼前 让你的简历看起来更好

拥有你喜欢的东西 正确的专业，让你拥有

全A和B以及类似的东西

，同时你可以做某事 这不一定是你想做的

你所做的，因为你必须这样做 你得到了 C，所以它

就像我告诉的事情之一 人们会考虑它

因为非常喜欢你的未来 取决于它，就像我知道它不是一成不变的

，但它很像 当你到达那里时，你需要

认真思考你正在做的事情

是的，激情 激情让人站立 没错，所以如果您的热情是

文学，那么您的热情就是人类学 如果你 充满激情并且工作努力，人们

...

注意到了这一点。因为机会来了，他们确实这么做了，不是吗

尤其是在这里你可以做研究 任何事情，

我是否从事政治活动并不重要 科学，我正在做研究，我正在

对我

感兴趣的事情进行研究，这将展示出来 当我申请研究生

项目以及类似的事情时 否则我可以做其他一些专业，但

我对如何做并不真正感兴趣 从长远来看这会对我有帮助。所以

我们来谈谈研究生院吧，因为 显然，第一代学生进入

研究生院的人数较少，右 无证学生上大学

的数量非常非常少，对吧 然后读研究生，你

只知道世界上的几颗闪亮的星星 正在开辟这条道路

的国家，那么您的计划是什么 研究生院？ 我一直在争论我已经

对此争论了很多次，但希望 我的课程表现非常好

，而且我也得到了同样多的成绩 尽我所能，所以我计划

希望获得联合学位以获得我的 我同时获得了法律学位和博士学位

我仍然想决定是否 我想成为政治学或

历史学，但我仍然处于中间状态 其中大部分之前是

真的很喜欢我想要的路径 只是因为我知道我想

实践移民法，但我想去 回到我的社区和

个无证人员，真的 教他们，因为我觉得他们

没有得到他们没有得到好的好处 从一开始就接受教育，所以

这让他们倒退了很多，所以现在 当他们在高中

学校进行规划时以及类似的事情时，他们已经 没有良好的背景来做好

并继续上大学 继续读研究生，所以我想从那里开始

。那么你会说什么 UCI 的其他第一代学生有记录和

没有记录，他们认为 好吧，研究生院不适合像我这样的人

，我买不起研究生 学校 我不知道 我不认识任何人

谁上过研究生院 什么 你会对他们说吗？我和你的情况一样

但只是因为 你认为

未来看起来并不光明

并不意味着它不是你的 你需要

你需要达到你需要 努力让一些人认为

一切都会水到渠成 但你需要非常努力

，特别是为了你的第一代 你必须像大学生一样工作

两倍或三倍的努力 因为你不会有背景

知识，我知道我不能问我的父母，哦，我如何申请研究生院

，因为他们不会知道如何申请 法学院他们不会知道

所以这就像其中一件事 你需要在这个过程中自学

并真正获得 导师也。 我知道我可以向你询问任何事情

，我真的希望如此 人们确实有这样的人

去过那里的人得到了 法学博士学位，我们可以向

提出任何正确的要求，所以我认为这是 我们需要

为这些奠定基础的事情之一 first-generation college students that

that want to pursue a graduate studies 但很害怕，所以我觉得这些只是他们害怕的事情之一

因为没有人拥有它，所以他们不认识

在那里做过的人，而且他们 就到此为止，但我的意思是，如果每个人

都会这么说，那么就不会有 第一代大学生喜欢

自己喜欢

去攻读博士学位，所以我觉得 我们需要更多，我们

需要我们需要像采取 充分利用所有机会

尤其是我们在这里进行研究 机构，我觉得人们有时

不会利用这一点，但 就像您

知道的那样，很容易参与其中，但显然您需要寻求这一点 这里的导师和教员。那么，从实际角度来看，

如何正确做到这一点 作为一名刚刚

来到 UCI 的学生，你感觉怎么样？这里有 30,000 名学生 UCI 的学生，你知道你在

演讲厅里，有 200 个人 学生们，有一位教授

，你如何与他建立关系 教员，你是做什么的？我觉得

这两个都有点难 参与其中，但人们不利用我去的办公时间

办公时间很多却没有人

那里，所以人们认为教职人员很奇怪，就像我不会

会和他们说话，他们非常非常 可怕，但我的意思是他们在那里有

个原因，他们想指导学生 诸如此类的事情真的

就像积极参与和 了解你的教授并

提出问题，即使你不知道 了解我的新事物，然后去问

，就像这没有什么坏处一样 但也可以利用高年级

班级的优势，因为它们要小得多 我知道

我们有 20 个人，所以我要了解一下 她和她将会了解

一些你不能害羞的事情，并且 你不能害怕提出问题并

与你的老师互动，因为这样 你不会去认识任何人吗？ 那么

如果您害羞怎么办，让我们来吧 让我们来谈谈第一代学生

，它害羞而且害怕，对吗？ 您建议

建议哪两件事就像婴儿学步一样 他们可以在第一季度做

，这将使他们处于一个你知道的看跌期权 他们走在正确的道路上吗？我想说，

的第一件事就是最少的 go 自我介绍，就像哦，我喜欢你的

讲座，就像你今天谈论的那样 然后即使您不想直接去找教授

，也可以去找您的教授 助教我觉得他们

他们能觉得自己是一个 更有风度一点，只是因为

他们和你一起上大学，你知道的 它可能是像建筑

块一样的东西之一，比如去和某人交谈，他们 slowly build up your courage to talk to

your professors but I mean I feel like 当没有人的时候，你可以更轻松地与

你的教授交谈 那里，所以这也是找到

借口的事情之一，你知道，我记得我是 就像哦，我不明白我要

去和他们谈谈，所以这是其中之一 你需要能够做到的事情

只要走出你的舒适区我 记得我就像大一那年

，但那件事就消失了，因为我允许 我自己迈出这一步，就像哦

我的上帝，我不能害怕我需要 我需要推荐信

你认识的人可以对我说好话，你

不想在你的第四年

现在我想申请 研究生院现在正在申请

为美国教学

现在正在申请我的第一份工作，我 与

教授没有任何关系，所以我没有人可以 要求提供推荐信，就像您想建立这种关系一样

从第一年或第二年开始吧

，这样当你作为教授 建议他们写一封真正的

信，他们可以说我认识Yareli 三年了，所以让我们

一起集思广益

想想，让我们回想一下第一个 四分之一是对的，但第一个

季度很困难，每个人都觉得什么 我在这里做的对吗？让我们集思广益，列出一个

清单，其中包含您可以做的五到六件事 在第一季度做才能成功，好吧

所以我要从让你所有的 上课第一天就看书，所以

这是我最讨厌的事情之一 教授，我在季度开始询问人们之前两周

发送电子邮件 去拿他们的书，因为这个季度

太快了，如果你不这样做，如果你不这样做 有了这些书，你不开始

读你就会有麻烦了，对吧 那么，请获取您的书籍，

他们还可以做些什么来取得成功？

我见过一件事，但我没有做，但至少只选了 12 个单元，只是因为我把它当作

我选了 20 个单元，然后我想，天哪，但我做得很好，但我回想起来，我觉得我

应该只选三门课。只是 因为它更容易，所以您更容易掌握它

当你只上了三节课并且

你知道你正在做的只是更低 师班真正进入

你的专业并真正意识到是否 不管你喜欢与否，所以我告诉人们

拿 12 个他们可以处理的单位 我在高中时参加了这么多课程

，当时我参加了这么多课程 类，但它不一样，它真的

不一样，所以另一件事 我认为期望在我的岗位上工作

期望每周工作 40 到 50 小时 就好像您每周的大部分时间只上

节课 12 小时一样 时间应该花在学习阅读上

通过其他什么来阅读 还有什么？还有一件事

要了解班上的人，并且 建立学习小组 我记得第一个与我交谈的

人仍然是我的朋友 但他帮了我很多忙，我们

做得很好，政治学课也很好 这是因为我不明白

我会称呼他的东西 就像你能来帮我吗，我们可以一起学习

吗？这容易多了，因为

课程有很多阅读内容，我当时想，哦，我不知道 我想我能做到，他说好吧，我读一下

一点，你读一点，然后 我们只是讨论一下，然后

制作抽认卡和学习指南 类似的事情，一切都进展顺利

，但人们不敢说话 与他们的同龄人交谈，我想天哪，如果你

无法与你的同龄人交谈，那将会是 对你来说与其他人交谈变得更加困难

，但你却变得更加容易 知道这就像两个人一起工作。

好的好的，最后的话 对 UCI 记录和未记录的第一代学生

的鼓励？ 寻找资源并寻找他们的教师和

工作人员我知道有很多教师 他们总是在那里帮助你

，就像你和里斯博士一样 有帮助，只是为了让他们与您交谈

，并在您不同意时寻求建议 了解任何事情不要犹豫

提出我觉得人们也有感觉的问题 就像我很愚蠢一样，我确信其他人也有与您相同的

问题，所以请毫不犹豫地问 问题并跟上阅读内容

，这对我来说是一段时间以来最困难的事情，但肯定是

，他们并不孤单，在 UCI，我们很多人都认为我是

唯一的人

，我不能和我的父母谈论这件事，但有很多人想找到我们，我确信他们就像一个人 坐在你旁边的可能是

第一代大学生，我已经 注意到很多，因为我的教授

开始问，比如谁是第一 一代大学生，就像全班的

，所以你知道他们不是 独自一人，他们可以随时找到我们

。我们 60 岁的人中有百分之六十 本科生人口的百分比

这是第一代，好的，谢谢 你。 谢谢。

[英语]

Hi Yareli, so we obviously know eachother already, but for those viewers who are watching this just gonna introduce

myself my name is Anita Casavantes Bradford I'm an associate professor of

history and Chicano Latino Studies and I am a first-generation college student

and first women in my family to finish high school and why don't you introduce

yourself as well. Hi, I am Yareli Castro I am third-year political science and soon-to-be

history double-major. I am also an undocumented student so that adds on to the first generation.

Thank you so much, thank you for being here just to kind of start things

out I want you to think back whether it's to childhood or high school or

whatever and when was the moment when you first decided that you wanted to go

to college? I don't I don't think I have a moment in mind when I decided

that I was going to go to college it was something that I've always just had in my

mind like I'm gonna go to college.

Back in Mexico both of my parents were going to be lawyers but that didn't quite turn out just because we're from

Sinaloa so I guess the political spectrum in the political climate got a

little bit to hectic did and so my mom couldn't really go to college and my dad

didn't either so it was when they decided to begin migrating so we

started coming to the United States and things like that so when I came here it

was just one of the things that I was like oh that's a really exciting the

United States has a lot of really good universities and so I was like I'm

gonna go to college but I think in high school I went to a really small high

school and so there was about 500 of us in total and so being an undocumented student it was really hard for me because our counselor

didn't really know what it meant to be undocumented and so I had to really seek

the resources and I had to educate myself on a lot of the issues like

financial aid how do I applied for financial aid here in-state tuition

and things like that

and so I spent so many of my years really learning all of this by myself

that there was no way that I was not gonna go to college

just because I spent four years learning about everything and I did a research

project in which I was finding the ways that I could incite other undocumented

students to come to college so I was like I'm not gonna be hypocritical and not go to college but I'm

telling you that you should go to college and so it just became one of the

things that there was no way I wasn't going to go to college and so I had

really good grades and things like that and hopefully I was able to come here

which is really exciting. So you were dealing with not just being the first in

your family to go to college but you were also dealing with being an undocumented

student at a time when laws in California were changing faster than

the university system and the high school system could keep track of right

so I mean we've talked with other students about how coming to university

for them was like kinda like entering a foreign country right you don't speak

the language you don't know the rules that's kind of doubly true if you're an

undocumented student right from your perspective how is it different to

be both undocumented and a first gen student? In college? I would say just because there's

just not adequate training for faculty and stuff so I remember going to

financial aid in this and I was just asking questions like have you ever seen

my California Dream Act and things like that and they would be like oh I'm not

sure let me ask someone else right so people when I would go ask questions they didn't have the

answers themselves they had to ask which showed to me that they weren't

really trained and they didn't know how to really help us and there was like a lot

of issues that we face there's like legal issues and mental mental issues in

like health issues that for a lot of us like we don't have insurance or do we do

so it was nice coming here and just really getting insurance for the first

time right, while I see my parents and they struggle like when they get sick as

one of those really stressful times because it's a lot of money

and my mom got sick for a while and she didn't have insurance and that was like

a really stressful time not only like emotionally but financially it was

really stressful and so coming here is really hard having to explain

yourself like I'm undocumented and this is what it means to be undocumented and

this is the extra help that I need from you but for them not to be able to give

you like concrete answers and to really tell you and guide you along the way

because they don't know about your identity

it's really really hard and just the added stress of classes was just like on

top of everything else and really and really also struggling with my identity

was really tough, Oh can I tell you, can I trust you not to out me right and there

there was a lot of things that came when when I started telling people I'm

undocumented I know I didn't care but there was a lot of people that were not

at that stage so it was a little hard really dealing with both of those things.

So you're dealing with being the first in the family to go to college your

dealing with being an undocumented student you're dealing with being in a

totally different place family issues all of this right and I think in a lot

of ways that's probably common for many first-gen students right documented or

undocumented all of these extra challenges and yet you have succeeded

and you are succeeding right like I know you have a great GPA and I know you

spent the summer at a pre-law program you know at the UCI law school you are

succeeding so what is the secret right what have you learned in your last

couple of years here at UCI that that has helped you and that might help other

first gen students to succeed? My first quarter was my worst quarter I could say

and I didn't do too bad I still made Dean's honors list but it was my first

quarter and I think that the toughest part was really getting the hang of the

quarter system it was really fast. I remember I started and it was

already weak 8. I was like oh my God where did all the time go? That happens to

professors to.

Yeah, so it was really really tough and even now I'm an academic advisor for the school of social

sciences and I notice that and there's like a big pattern like the people's first

quarters are pretty much the worst quarters and from what I learned is that

I always needed to have someone in my classes that could help me so I always

took classes with my friends who were political science majors and things like

that and I did well because I had study groups I couldn't study by myself I

couldn't catch up on reading by myself like I had to talk to someone because it

was a lot easier just talking to someone about the content then just reading it

and just paying attention in class so all of the study groups I was really

supplemental to and it really helped also, what I learned is that I really like my major

and there's people who come to do it because their parents told them or

because they want to make money in the future so it's not really something that

they really truly want to do and so I've noticed that if it's not something that

they thought about myself like yes I want to be this major they usually don't

do good and I've seen this pattern when I talk to when I talk to students in

the office I could tell whether or not they wanted to do that major

and also I think it's hard because you need to have a really good background

in everything that you do so I know for like a lot of the econ majors like

if you don't have a good background in math you're not gonna do good and that's

affect you and so what I've noticed is just like you need to you need to make sure that

you're doing what you want to do and what you love to do and you'll do fine

and you'll do a lot better than if you didn't. So let's talk about that a bit right

because that that resonates with me because when I was an undergrad you know

I was really interested in was interested in sociology I was interested

in development studies I was interested in Latin American Studies and yet I and

so I used all of my elective credits to study the things that I liked but I had

already decided for myself that I was going to get a degree in English and

history because those were teachable subjects I was gonna get my teachers

credential and I was going to work right like a lot of first-gen students

students from low-income households you're thinking of college is what I do

in order to get a job so I didn't give myself the flexibility to just

choose whatever major I wanted eventually it all worked out for me

right I ended up exactly where I wanted to be but twenty years later what would you say to

students who are legitimately concerned about you know needing to get

a job after college and they do think about that when they choose their major

right what would you say to them well what I do tell students is like yeah you

might do something that will prepare you for to get a job but even but even in it

but you probably won't get a good GPA and that's not gonna look very good on

you right and that's probably not gonna allow you to get a good job while in the

other hand you could get you could do the major that you really really

want to do and your GPA reflected and you will do much better so that's what I

tell people honestly you need to like weigh what you want to do versus like

getting a job because it's on it's gonna look way better on your resume for you

to have something that that you love right have a major and for you to have

straight A's and B's and things like that

while you could be doing something that not necessarily what you want to do

what you doin it because you have to and you're getting C's so it's

like one of the things that I tell people think about it think about it

because like your future pretty much depends on it like I know it's not set

in stone but it's pretty much like you're getting there and you need to

really think about what you're doing

yeah passion passion makes people stand out right so if your passion is

literature your passion is anthropology and you can't clearly see how there's a

job at the end of that if you're passionate and you work hard people

notice that. Because the opportunities come right they kinda do don't they

especially here you could do research in anything and it doesn't really matter

whether I'm doing political science and I'm doing research and I'm

doing research on something that I'm

interested about and that's gonna show when I when I apply to a graduate

program and things like that right where else I could be doing some other major but

I wasn't really interested in how is that gonna help me in the long run. So

let's talk about grad school because obviously first gen students go to

graduate school in lower numbers right undocumented students go to university

at all in very very low numbers right and then graduate school there's you

know just a few shining stars across the country that are blazing that pathway

right so what are your plans for graduate school? I have debating I've

been debating this a lot but hopefully I've been doing really well my classes

and I been just getting as much experience as I can so I'm planning on

hopefully doing a joint degree to get my my law degree and my PhD at the same

time I'm I'm still like decided whether I wanted to be a political science or

history but I'm still like in the middle of it before the most part that's a

really liked the path that I want to take just because I know that I want to

practice immigration law but I wanna go back to my communities and to

undocumented folks and just really teach them because I feel that they

don't get they don't get a good good education from the very beginning so

that sets them back a lot and so now when their planning in High

School and things like that they already don't have the good background to do

really good and go on to college and go on to graduate school so I want to start

from there. So what would you say to other first-gen students documented and

undocumented here at UCI that think well graduate school is not for people

like me right I can't afford graduate school I don't know I don't know anyone

who's ever been to graduate school what would you say to them? I'm in the same

situation as you are but just because you think just because you think the

future doesn't look bright

that doesn't mean that it's not but you need to you need to be

you need to be reaching for you need to be working towards some people think

that everything was just gonna come to them but you need to work really hard

specially for your first generation college student you have to work like

twice or three times as hard just because you're not gonna have the background

knowledge I know I can't ask my parents like oh how do I apply for grad school

because they're not gonna know how does law school they're not gonna know

so it's like one of those things that you need to be like teaching yourself

along the process and really getting mentors too. I know I can ask you

for anything and I really wish that people really had that someone

someone who's been there who is gotten a PhD law degree and we are able to ask

for anything right and so I think that's one of the things that we need to be

building the foundation for those first-generation college students that

that want to pursue a graduate studies but are scared so I feel like those are one

of those things that they're scared just because no one has it they don't know

anyone who's done in there and they're gonna stop there but I mean if everyone

would have said that then there'll be no first-generation college students like

yourself like

going and getting the PhD so I feel like we need to be more, we

need to we need to be like taking advantage of all the opportunities

especially here we are a research institution and I feel like people don't

take advantage of that at times, but is a real easy to get involved like you

know but obviously you need to seek that the mentors and faculty here. So in

practical terms how do you do that right how do you as a student who has just

arrived at UCI there's what 30,000 students at UCI and you know you're in a

lecture hall there's two hundred students there's one professor how do

you form a relationship with that faculty member what do you do? I feel

like both those are a little harder to get involved but people don't take

advantage of office hours I go to office hours a lot and there's no one

there so people think that faculty are Oh strange like I'm not

gonna talk to them they're very very scary but I mean they're there for a

reason they wanna mentor students and things like that so really

being like actively participating and getting to know your professors and

asking questions even when you don't understand my new things and just go ask

like there's no hurt in that but also take advantage of upper Division

classes because they're a lot smaller and I know

there is 20 of us so I'm gonna get to know her and she's gonna get to know each one

of those things that you can't be shy and you can't be afraid to ask questions and

to engage with your faculty because then you're not gonna get to know anyone? So

what if you are shy right let's let's let's talk about the first gen student

that is shy and it is afraid right what are two things that you would

suggest that are like baby steps that they could do in their first quarter

that will put them on a you know put them on the right path? I would say the

very first thing is just the least go introduce yourself like oh I like your

lecture like what you talked about today and then even if you don't want to go

straight to the professor go to your teaching assistant I feel like they

could they could feel like they're a little bit more personable just because

they are in college with you you know so it could be one of those like a building

blocks like go talk to someone and they slowly build up your courage to talk to

your professors but I mean I feel like it's a lot easier for you to talk to

your professors when there's no one there so it's one of those things that find

excuses too you know, I remember I was like oh I don't understand that I'm

gonna go talk to them so that's one of the things that you need to be able to

just get out of your comfort zone I remember I was like that freshman year

but that just went away cause I allowed myself to take that step and be like oh

my god I can't be afraid I'm gonna need letters of recommendation I'm gonna need

you know people who could say good things about me right right you

don't want to be in your 4th year

thinking okay now I'm going to apply to graduate school are now applying to

teach For America

now applying for my first job and I don't have any relationships with the

professors so I don't have anybody to ask for recommendation letters right

like you want to build that relationship starting from year one or year two right

so that when you as that professor for recommendation they can write a real

letter they can say I've known Yareli for three years right so let's

brainstorm together

think let's think back to the first quarter right but that difficult first

quarter where everyone feels like what am I doing here right let's brainstorm a

list of five or six things that you can do in that first quarter to succeed ok

so I'm gonna start with have all of your books on the first day of class right so

that's kind of one of my pet peeves as a professor I send out emails two weeks

before the quarter start asking people to just get their books cause the quarter is

so fast right if you don't if you don't have the books and you don't start

reading your gonna be in trouble right so get your books what's something else

they can do to succeed?

One thing I've seen and I didn't do but take only 12 units the minimum just because I took it like

I took twenty and I was like, ohmy god but I did well but I look back on it and I was like I

should have only takenthree classes. just because it's a lot easier it's a lot

easier for you to get the hang of it when you only had three classes and

you're doing you know just lower division classes really getting into

your major and really realizing whether you like it or not and so I tell people

take 12 units that they could handle everything I took this many classes

in high school when I take this many classes but it's not the same it's really

not the same right so another thing expect to work in my in my opinion

expect to work a forty to 50 hour week right like just because you're only in

classes for 12 hours a week most of your time should be spent on studying reading

do the reading by what else what's one more thing? One more thing

get to know people in your class and make study groups I remember very first

person that I talked to still my friend but he helped me out a lot we did

really well and the political science class and it was because lets say I didn't understand

something I would just call him and be like can you come help me can we study

together and it was a lot easier because there was a lot of reading to for that

class and I was just like oh I don't think I can do it and he was like ok I'll read

little bit you read a little bit and we'll just talk about it and then we'll

make flashcards and study guides and things like that and it all just worked

out fine but people are afraid to talk to their peers and I'm like oh my god if you

can't talk to your peers that's gonna be a lot harder for you to talk to other people

and it just becomes a lot easier you know it's like two working together.

Right okay so final words of encouragement for first-gen students

documented and undocumented at UCI? Seek the resources and seek their faculty and

staff I know there's a lot of faculty that are always just there to help you

like you and Dr. Reese has been really helpful and just for them to talk to you

and ask for advice when you don't understand anything don't hesitate to

ask questions I feel like people feel like I'm dumb, I'm sure someone else has the same

question as you so don't hesitate to ask questions and keep up with the readings

that's like the toughest thing for me some time but yeah definitely

and they're not alone there's a lot of us here at UCI people think like I'm

the only one

and I can't talk to my parents about it but there's a lot of was like to seek us out I'm sure they're like a person sitting next to you might be a

first-generation college student and I've notice that a lot because my professors have

been starting to ask, like who's a first generation college student and it was like the

whole class and so you know they're not alone and they could seek us out

anytime. Right sixty percent of us 60 percent of the undergraduate population

here is first-gen alright well thank you. Thank you.

重点词汇

词汇	含义
associate əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt B2	noun - 同事 verb - 关联
professor prəˈfɛsər A2	noun - 教授
Chicano tʃɪˈkɑːnoʊ B1	noun - 墨西哥裔美国人
Latino læˈtiːnoʊ A2	noun - 拉丁美洲人
undocumented ʌndɒkjuˈmɛntɪd B1	adjective - 无证件的
political pəˈlɪtɪkəl A2	adjective - 政治的
spectrum ˈspɛktrəm B1	noun - 光谱
migrating ˈmaɪɡreɪtɪŋ A2	verb - 迁移
tuition tuˈɪʃən B1	noun - 学费
hypocritical ˌhɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl B2	adjective - 虚伪的
faculty ˈfækəlti A2	noun - 教职员工
insurance ɪnˈʃʊrəns A2	noun - 保险
mentor ˈmɛntɔːr B1	noun - 导师 verb - 指导
graduate ˈɡrædʒuət A2	noun - 毕业生 verb - 毕业
passion ˈpæʃən A2	noun - 热情
research rɪˈsɜːrtʃ A2	noun - 研究 verb - 研究
perspective pərˈspektɪv B1	noun - 观点
supplemental səˈplɛməntəl B2	adjective - 补充的
pattern ˈpætərn A2	noun - 模式