Week 4

Hey readers, week four of school is done. Where has the first month of school gone? Well the date to add or drop classes has gone by.At this point most students are most likely than not staying in their class. With some you see the comfortable faces as they walk by feeling sure of the classes they picked. Yet most importantly feeling as if they know what they got themselves into. Others, not so much, the anxiety radiates from their face when walking out of classes. The time has come that we as students settle in to the university all over again. The real work in classes have started. Exams are quickly approaching, and papers are but days from being due. I guess you could say that the “real” college life has begun.

Jobs around campus have been mostly filled by now, especially those of work study. Work study is a program the government offers as a form of financial aid. You work during the semester to earn a designated amount of money paid to you by the government. Although many want it, it is strictly given on a need basis. However, some students are willing to go above and beyond in the aspects of work. In this case I could not be prouder of a student from PRLACC. See this student came to me to assist them in creating a resume. Yet unfortunately the student was missing work experience. We spoke and brainstormed. I gave them different alternatives they could present. Eventually they went to a graduate student and asked for an internship. Unfortunately they did not have work study so they were not going to be getting paid, but for them that was the least of their concerns. The student was willing to go above and beyond and do it as a volunteer basis, simply for the work experience it offered. What I see more and more each year that has passed is students look for the cushioned job. One in which they get paid from work study to do nothing but sit around and waste time. The sad part is that when they don’t find those jobs many let their work study go to waste. They let the day pass where you can no longer redeem your work study. The most upsetting part of all that, is there are plenty of students who need that work study. Those that try and fight for the work study that so many others simply throw away.

Just as a heads up reader’s week five will bring feedback from an art show at the student union art gallery.It is offered by PRLACC, the Institute for PRLS, Eliana Rojas Program, and others. Please feel free to come view the art on display, but if it is absolutely impossible I will be taking pictures as well for you to see. So until next week enjoy week five of school.