fisrt group study experience

I realized looking through my blog posts; I noticed that I never discussed my experience doing the “First Generation College Student Focus Group Research” for Laurina Lanham’s thesis paper. Throughout the discussion I realized that I was not the only person that had to struggle with the school. What struggles I am talking about for example, filling out applications for financial aid and not having someone to guide you through that process. Another example, not having knowledge about the services college universities provides. Through out the discussion we discussed how hard it is to communicate to theses people. What I mean by that is I found it very challenging talking to them because I had no idea what to properly say or ask about my concern. After finding out what Laurina’s plans after this thesis about how she wants to start a program for first generation college students I was really interested in the discussion and what she had to say. I think her program will help students in all areas of their college career. This program will help students build better relationships with not only other students but also primarily their instructors and services that need. If I had a program like that, I think that my experience in college would be completely different that it is now. Since I am a transfer student and a first generation college student I felt I had had more challenges because I didn’t know much about college other than my personal experiences that I went through learned form.