I was interviewing a couple of friends the other day and I was surprised to find that people typically push things to the end because they like to go out, so they prioritize their extra curricular before their schooling. Schooling is obviously more important but then again they argued that it wasn’t half as fun. The fact that they procrastinate wasn’t so surprising as when I realized that the closer the due date is, the more likely they choose to plagiarize because choosing not to do so would be time consuming and very stressing because time is just not a luxury at that point. It’s kind of counter productive.

SFSU for the most part has been a really great experience for me. The people I’ve met so far have really made my coming here a great choice. I always find myself busy with the activities that there is available like clubs or ethic classes and other classes that require a lot of hands on experience. Life in this college is, for the lack of a better term, extremely chill. The level of pressure I have to deal with is by far a lot less than what the kids in Notre Dame, an Ivy league school, have to deal with in Susan Blum’s book. This gives me a lot of freedom in terms of time management and do things other than school. I would hate to be a student who’s life revolved around books. I like being able to hang out with friends and not regretting it because of an essay I was supposed to do instead. The culture here is vastly different than the one that Blum talked about. For one thing, that school focused on football a lot. We don’t have a football team here. There is no football culture. From the way she described it, it seemed like everyone almost revolved around football. Here in SFSU, it is all about fighting for what you want. Looking around the school you start to notice a lot of protests. If you delve in the history, you find out about the struggles the students went through to make the school the way it is now. Every school is different and it while Notre Dame may specialize in other aspects of education, SFSU has a reputation in ethnic studies and relations. Anything really that involves strikes or protests or getting yourself heard, that is what we do here in this school. Overall, in my experience here, I’ve become better at speaking out and getting my voice heard. For someone who’s been silent for the majority of their life, it sure is refreshing.

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their voices are so sooothing, haha.

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So here I am trying my very best to catch up with classwork and we have just finished one essay. The very next week we are handed another essay to write and are immediately set upon the task of drafting yet another essay. On top of this, we are given readings to do and respond about in class with an ongoing bibliography assignment to stacked on top of everything else. The readings themselves wouldn’t really be a problem but they aren’t exactly Dr. Suess status. These readings are long and fairly difficult and we are expected to blow tremendous amounts of ink to bring a copy to class. I really don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish with this blog and I’m not trying to sound like I’m complaining but I just felt the need to through this out.

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“Why should I vote? I’m an immigrant.”

Those were the words I remember the most from the film. The person talked about how they were looked down upon because they were asian or surprised that they got awards in movie filming as an asian in the United States like they were obviously second to everyone else in the film industry. This asian was also a citizen of the U.S. and could vote but chooses not to and I totally agree with the point made. Why should we vote in this country if it treats us like we aren’t a part of it? Why should we choose to identify ourselves as American if others try to strip us or cut down our natural identity? Why call ourselves American when we are ASIAN? Be proud of who we are. I’m not trying to cut a line between others races and differiente Asians from Americans in a bad way. I’m saying that there should be no difference whether or not I’m Filipino or American. But if the majority seeks to cut down the minority in any way then fuck that. I would be ashamed to call myself one of them. People are always trying to get into America and be like America but to what end? We, the minority, are just considered second place and undeserving. So why should anyone seek to become American if what it means to be in American is to take yourselves above all others. Granted, not all American’s fit this definition and I’m not trying to build a stereotype but we ARE supposed to be equal in this country. I find it ironic that this country advertised the born equal idea when it is so underpracticed.

My friend is wayyy too good at what she does.

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Wikipedia is as accurate as any encyclopedia out there with minor errors that is normal in any other online database. An article stated just as much in a study where a bunch of scientists checked the accuracy of any science entry found on Wikipedia. There is a natural ‘hate” towards wikipedia that might not neccessarily be deserved. People have been telling students for the longest time that wikipedia is unreliable that becomes almost a fact that it is unreliable when in fact, it isn’t. Students use wikipedia more than any one of them is willing to admit and it has, for the most part, worked out to be a very good source of knowledge.