Finally the Final Finals to Finalize

And here we are again for the fourth and last time: it is the end of the semester and finals week is here! I can’t believe that my time at SBCC is getting toward the end… It has already been two years? What?!? Who made time fly by so quickly? I feel like that I attended Vaquero Welcome just a couple of days ago, and that I haven’t spent more than a day with my closest friends… but you know, nothing can last forever. As professor and PTK advisor Eskandari once said: “change is the only constant in our lives”, and the faster we understand this, the easier it is to enjoy life at its fullest.

God bless iPath

This week I have four finals to prepare and I can't wait to get done with them. My first final was on Tuesday at 8:00am and I was feeling so tired and already soooooo done! Luckily, as I was walking zombie style across the bridge, the iPath program had set two tables, one filled with all the food necessary to get through the day, and one with blue books, scantrons and pencils. Thank god iPath takes care of all of us students… after my finals, I had lunch and then straight back to the UCSB library,

Fortunately, I faced this week with my friends… We would drive together to the library and support each other till late night. This finals week has been the most fun, tiring, sad, happy week out of all finals week at CC. In particular, this semester I have been doing so much that I feel so drained and ready to go back home. I know it is the end but I feel like I got out of City College everything I could, and it has given me more than enough to continue my education. I finished off this week with mixed feelings, but I believe everything just ended perfectly… Goodbye City College Classes!!

SBCC Ambassadors CommUNITY Festival

It was weeks that the Ambassadors have been organizing the SBCC CommUNITY Festival and today it was the day for it to happen!! Teo, Bella and I were the leaders who directly communicated with Shelby about the decisions concerning the event, and then we would assign tasks to other ambassadors. It took so much of our efforts and I was really hoping that the festival would turn out great. In my head the festival would have attracted more that 200 people, however, the number of individuals who showed up was much lower!! Despite this little inconvenience, we still continued the festival and we had a wonderful time all together!!! This event was not only the LAST ambassadors event for the Spring 2017 semester, but it is also my LAST ambassadors event ever!!!

Masterpiece

I got to Pershing Park at 1 p.m. and the gloomy weather wasn’t really promising… However, the awesome spirit that dominates every ambassador was sparking in the air, and by 2 o’clock music and art started to spread allover the place. It was such a chill and relaxed environment, and it was impossible to not feel the vibes and enjoy the time spent together. We were making mandalas while listening to music, or we were painting banners, sharing our artistic creations. I went even further and face painted a friend of mine, Anthony. At the end of my artistic work he didn’t seem really happy… But you know, I had so much fun and actually he did, too… He was probably just giving me a hard time.

Art & Music

Mandala Making

Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay till the end of the festival because I went to attend the Outstanding Student Award Ceremony to support my friend Amber. She got nominated for outstanding student for Phi Theta Kappa!!! Amazing.. I heard from other ambassadors that the last few bands that played were absolutely wonderful, and a friend of mine even got back to me and said that the festival was really enjoyable and that it was perfect for distressing before this busy finals week… What a great day!! I hope that the next generation of ambassadors will be as enthusiastic as this one I was a part of. I can’t wait to see the progress and evolution of this outstanding organization. I love you SBCC Ambassadors ❤️

Let’s Get Fancy: Honors Program Gala

Honors Program Co-Presidents

I have always been an overachiever and I will keep on being one because it is just so rewarding! Since I enrolled at Santa Barbara City College, I have been part of the Honors Program, and no semester went by without taking an honors class. Taking honors classes could be described as a FREE upgrade of your college education… Come on! Who doesn’t like FREE things? So, I immediately took this amazing chance of making my college career even more successful though joining the program, and just a few days ago I received the invitation to the Honors Program gala. 

At the end of every spring semester, the Honors Program organizes a gala to congratulate the students who have completed the Honors Certificate through taking at least six honors classes before receiving an Associate Degree or transferring. I finished the honors certificate this semester and I could not wait to dress fancy, meet with my honors peers, and receive the Honors Program stole!!! The event was held at the John Dunn Gourmet Dining Room where there was lots of free food and fancy tables. As soon as I arrived I saw all my friends dressed up on point for the event and we enjoyed eating dinner together.

Right after dinner, Professor Melanie Eckford-Prossor stood up and delivered a wonderful speech that reminded me the wonderful, and at the same time painful times, of my English 110 class with her. Professor MEP is one of the best professors I have ever taken, and her class was so open minding and inspiring that now I reason and analyze things in a total different way. Before taking her class I was scared to write papers, during the class I was terrified to write my papers, but after taking the class I can nail down any essay that is assigned to me. Today it was the day that repaid me for my all the efforts… I stood up, stated my name and received the Honors Program stole. Amazing day.