First Generation

For my cousin, brothers and sisters and me, the repetition of our parents is always obvious, "I came to this country at the expense of all my family, friends and my life. A better life and I Life without experience before us "

My family immigrated from Central America. They gave us the first American born, a wonderful life, the life they had never had before. Compared to the poor life they left, the rich foods, clothes, and technologies that our parents earn through their hard work are overwhelming.

I grew up culturally with my parents as one of the oldest children of the first generation. When I am very young, I will help solve various problems. From translating office handling to helping with all the technical tools like playing at home with the new iPhone. It is not easy for them to blend into the American culture It is not easy for our first generation to find our identity between the two cultures.

From time to time, I feel that my generation is forced to accept the sacrifices that we can not select. I doubt my feeling about the generosity of sacrifice and I think that not everything my family did did not change our identity. Now, I am facing our expectations

Iaritza Menjivar (born 1992) is a photographer of Boston who was born and raised in Massachusetts. She has a bachelor's degree in photography from the University of Art and Design at Leslie College. Currently she is Assistant Director of Griffin Photo Museum and is a social media coordinator of Digital Silver Imaging. She also works freelance, including event photography, photo retouching, and close collaboration with numerous social media platforms from various organizations including Lenscratch.

Menjivar's personal project is about her family's strong expectation for her generation and the pressure that the first generation people feel with respect to their immigrant parents. Her first generation project recently appeared in the lens blog of the New York Times. In the same project, Menjivar received the Emerging Artist Award at the Visual Arts division of St Botolph Foundation. She is also a scholar of Seeing Crete: Photo Diary Seminar, held in Crete, Greece, which is part of the Main State Media Workshop. Her work is exhibited in several domestic and foreign group exhibitions.

This opportunity now brings various challenges and obstacles. The university is not the first generation, it is an overwhelming obstacle for students who are not first generation. The challenges faced by first generation college students include "family responsibilities and academic responsibility, economic difficulties, cultural impact / stress, and the difficulty of building communities on campus". Unfortunately, some challenges are difficult to overcome and will cause students to drop out. As a result, the first generation college student said, "The probability of dropping out of the second generation university was twice as high as the first generation student" (Marquette University)

This article focuses more on the concept that first generation students can not succeed in college due to economic difficulties. In this article, I pointed out that there are several reasons why the first generation students did not succeed at the university, one of the reasons is that habits and ideas were born in high school and more help in the upper class Is to be obtained. In addition to economic difficulties, this article contains many good points on how to influence others for university students. In this article you can focus attention on specific matters that first generation students may suffer and provide solutions to solve them.

limited. The first generation of university students differ on all campuses. Some agencies define the first generation as the first student to attend college in the family. For example, a campus consultant should carefully consider the following questions to select this definition. In this case, is the student FGCS? What happens if one parent gets an associate degree and the other does not go to the university? Regarding the definition of first generation students, it is very important that they are consistent on campus. The definition of FGCS may differ from other schools depending on the needs of students and cultural differences within the university. Terminology must be consistent and important. How do campus members refer to these students? Are they 'F - G - C - S' or 'First Generation'? Is there a name that can be used as the pride of the institution? For example, UNC-Chapel Hill proudly calls FGCS "Carolina Firsts".