Vocabulary
What is the meaning of Outsider?
A person who feels they do not belong to a particular group.
Why do some students feel like outsiders?
Differences in income, social styles, and even speech patterns cause many first-generation students to feel like outsiders.
What is a way that a college student can by pass the feeling like an outsider or alone?
A way students can push pass the barriers of being lonesome at college is by forging strong, supportive relationships, both social and academic.
Why may First-Generation students need more guidance than others?
Parents of First-Generation students are unable to use their own personal college experience as their child is the first to go to college.
What does culture mean? (referring to college)
Different social styles, speech patterns, and income.
True or False? Students of color going to college often create good impressions for their teachers and classmates.
False! Most students of color are often misjudged about their personality by what they wear or how they talk. They actually try harder to prove themselves that they can do just as well as any white person.
In your opinion why may it be important to find your niche and to find people like you in your college?
You may feel more comfortable, you may feel that to return for a second year of college is good. You can depend on them because you have similar backgrounds you can understand each other better.
Since First-Generation Parents are unable to provide the guidance for their child, how may Teachers or members help those students?
Since parents of these types of students cannot help their child they can always go to their teachers, who can help them with not only their academic life but their social life as well.
Why do First-Generation students feel like they are not capable of succeeding?
First-Generation students feel like they are not capable of succeeding because they have a mindset different from the mainstream based on their race, culture, origin, social class and income.
What does first-generation mean?
The first person in your family to achieve a family goal (in this situation college).
What does money and color have to do with a low-income college student?
Being a low-income student going to a college with many white people who are well dressed with lots of money, can intimidate you, making you feel small inside like you don't belong.
True or False? Students who receive positive support from the beginning ( start of college) often learn to enjoy standing out in the crowd.
True
Scenario: It's your first year at college and you're the first in your family to go to a college and you are feeling like you aren't smart enough to be there. Do you go to your parents for guidance or your teachers?
You go to your Teachers as they have more experience than you parents who have never gone to college.
How may staying true to yourself in college and not trying to be someone else help you get through your college experience?
If your trying to be someone else or try to be like them than you can never learn from each other because you are the same theirs nothing different between you and the other person.
What does mainstream mean?
the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are regarded as normal or conventional; the dominant trend in opinion.
Why may a college student of color have to engage in a conversation directly about their race, class and privilege to a white person?
They may have to engage directly about their background because they may feel uncomfortable about the assumptions made and don't want to betray their community race.
Why may it be important to have an open mind when meeting new people?(opinion)
Having your own opinion is totally fine but when meeting new people its good to listen and try to understand them so that you may have someone you can trust. Learning about them can teach you things you never new before.
True or false?: Students who are treated poorly their first year at college are most likely to return for a second year. If false make the statement true
False! Students who are treated well during their first year experience are most likely to return for a second year.
Could it be possible to learn more about life than academics in college? If not explain why
Yes it is possible because everyone has different opinions and some people value the life lessons more rather than the academic lessons.