Seth Garcia, 52, fine arts major, "The biggest struggle I’ve had to overcome is patience. To be able to excel in a country and a language that is not mine. No doubt this will bring me better things, but until now I do not know what ...
Nicholas Burton, 19, music major, "I was going to be an Engineer but felt that the best thing after some things happened at home (that) I should do something musically. I started playing in a student drum line in high school and eventu...
Erin Cagle, 20, liberal studies major, "I wanted to be a teacher because throughout elementary school I suffered from learning disabilities. I got help from this one special teacher that I really loved and for some reason he made me ...
Lester Green, an El Camino Utility Worker, "I’ve been working for about 45 years here at El Camino. This isn’t a place you just come to work, you look at everybody as family, you treat everybody as family. When somethi...
Elizabeth Palomino, 19, political science major, "Ten years from now I see myself (already) graduated, working (for) the City Counsel, and being involved in a feminist organization."...
"I started bringing games two or three years ago when it was summer. We had 30-minute breaks and no one was doing anything, everyone was just on their phones, and I wanted to bring something so we could all have fun," Antonio Morales, 22, theater major said: "It's a great wa...
"I think most people over exaggerate and hopefully dream about how much better (their) future might actually be. (In 10 years from now I want to be) financially stable or financially free since I'm an accounting major. I un...
"My grandmother (is probably the most influential person to me.)" Gabriel Hashem, 18, film major, said. "Probably her perseverance she came from Egypt as an immigrant, she moved her whole family here, she couldn't speak the lan...
