The beginning of a New Era; Mine

Justin Vildosola 

Eng 101 

10/18/2014 

Dawn of a New Era 

I knew I would eventually end up in college, I'm actually a little bit disappointed that I came into college so late. I wanted to start college two years ago, but I moved back in June of 2014 and I did not know that you needed to have at least one year living in California to be approved for residency. To some that might not mean much, but to me, that meant the difference between saving a couple hundred dollars that I did not have at the time. Now that I'm here in college, it kind of feels nice because I am doing something productive with my life instead of just working. Don’t get me wrong, working is a great but when all you do is work and you don’t see yourself expanding and trying to go up in the work force; you become stagnate and end up living a sedentary life style of not achieving much.  

Currently, I am pursuing a career as an IT/Computer Networking admin as I am fascinated with how computers work and, for the most part, how the inner machinations work. I've always been interested in computers so when I found out that Oxnard College started offering a computer networking class I got in as soon as I could. Back in 2012, when I first moved here, Oxnard College did not offer a computer networking class or anything similar. The original plan was to take my general education there, once I had that I would be able to transfer to the Ventura College. From there I'd transfer to a four year university, not quite sure as to what university I want to transfer to as I just started college.  

I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can within the time I have here at the college. Nothing excites me more than to learn new things such as Psychology and other language courses; once I'm done with Spanish I want to learn ASL (American Sign Language). Truth be told, some people find it hard to balance both work and college. I've only been coming for half a semester and I can see where some people would see that trying to juggle both would become a bit overwhelming, but I'm the type of person who likes a full plate, seconds if I can help it.  My life has changed, although, I wish it had sooner, but I am very happy with how things turned out; I never would have met my awesome girlfriend or gotten my car, heck, I don’t think I'd be close with my dad as I am now.  

My final advice is this, it’s a Spanish phrase (forgive me Spanish speakers, I am learning it all over again) : "Sigale", which means, in a rough translation, go for it.  

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