Interviewing 2 Seniors

On May 2009, the following seniors, Omar Bravo and Keith Brown will be graduating from SJSU. Omar will be graduating with an Electrical Engineering Degree and Keith brown will consume a Computer Science Degree. After interviewing the two seniors with the same questions I found that there college experiences have not been the same.

Omar’s college experience has been great. It was not as he had planned it though. He never expected there to be so much freedom. The amount of time that was needed to be dedicated was such a large amount that he believed there was not enough hours in the day to progress. He also never planned for 5 years, to go by so fast and he felt like it was just yesterday when he was checking into Royce. If he could do something different he would dedicate more time to his studies, apply for the scholarships that are out there; since no one ever does, and he would of chose to live on campus a full year instead of transferring out his spring semester of Freshmen year. He started off going into Business because that was his fathers’ field of work but slowly realized that was not what he wanted to do, so he switched to Engineering. He left me with the following advice to freshmen “The girls will still be there when you’re all done with school and your degree is framed on your wall.”

Keith Brown’s college experiences were nothing like what he expected them to be. He thought he could precede classes with the same mentally he had in High School, and quickly learned after the first semester that was not going to work. He also viewed college as the ideal place to party and be wild. If he could back and change something Keith would have enjoyed his freshman year more instead of spending so much time in his dorm. He would also choose to be more social during his first two year. He feels like if he would have joined the Greek life, he would have come out of his shell. Keith never switched his major; he stuck to Computer Science that probably why he always would go home after class and study; because class was so hard. Keith advice for freshman is “ Make school your first priority, and don’t fall behind because every class you fail is costing you money (time is money).”