Transfer Motivational Conference Blog

The biggest highlight for me was the people who put there time into the Puente program to help students succeed in college and later on in life. I attended a workshop were they were discussing about students who wanted to go to college but weren't citizens yet. They got into detail and explained to the class that you could still go to college even if you weren't a citizen but you had to fill out a couple of forms to attend college. My point of view of that class was that it wasn't very helpful on helping me out as in my future for college or right now. I see it this way because the motivation/drive that brought me to college to receive a associate and bachelor degree later on in college was basically being reinstated at the motivational conference and its workshops. So I really didn't gain anything from going there but just meeting other Puente students and interacting more with my fellow Puente students. Besides the motivational conference not really helping or motivate me I did get to see other students gain a lot from the conference and giving them a motivational boost that they can make it through college even with all the odds stacked against them. From looking at the body language of the other Puente groups it seemed to me that our Puente group from Foothill was the most energetic there. We did get complaints of being to disruptive but I didn't see it as that, I saw it as if we were the most motivated out all of the Puente groups and we displayed it at the motivational conference. So to summarize it all up I think as a group some of us might have gain a little knowledge going to the motivational conference. But overall I think we already had that motivation that the motivational conference was trying to give us and the other Puente groups.