More opportunities to grow or participate in projects
Advice
Definitely do it, it work with homework and you learn a lot
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TRIO SSS
September 2015 - August 2019 • Salt Lake City, UT
What I liked
Calling students to remind them about their appointments, helping students register for classes, and supporting them through the whole semester. We did a lot events every year.
What I wish was different
Nothing. TRIO SSS is an amazing programs; I enjoyed helping students and they helped me grow as a student.
Advice
Meet great advisors, make new friends, and get helped with your home work with a tutor.
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Co-Teacher
May - August 2018 • Salt Lake City, UT
What I liked
Loved working with professors I knew both from the U and from SLCC. I really enjoyed engaging with students from demographics normally marginalized on the larger University of Utah Campus because of the wealth of knowledge they bring into the classrooms. In many ways, the conversations in those classes were more nuanced, aware, and informed than what I have found in U classrooms.
What I wish was different
I wish we had a little bit longer. The students seemed to enjoy engaging with upper-division writing literature, the authors, and creating their own pieces in forms that were previously unknown to them.
Advice
Go in expecting to learn from the students - value who they are: their complex histories, how those histories inform their intersectional identities, and how their stories erode many of the foundations of higher education from structure to ideology. Notice the way they use language and how it reveals the inadequacies of our own. Remember that the type of English you hear mask the brilliance in each individual - look past the fact that they are negotiating complex thought in a third or fourth language and see the compelling intelligence that would out-wit many undergrads at the local university.
