Nontraditional College Success

Jerry Lee - LinkedIn

•Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Google

•COO of Wonsulting - Website

Shares his underdog to winner story

•Immigrant story 

•Not having enough money 

•Not knowing what to do in college

•First intern at google from my alma matter

•Fastest promotion in the organization’s history 

•Asian culture traits that does not match the US style

•Traveling and waiting to pay for student loans 

•Balancing a busy student schedule  

•What motivated Jerry though College

•His goal with Wonsulting

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International Students in the United States.

In this episode, our Guest:
Achraf Gbadamassi, Software Engineer at GE (General Electric) from the African Country of Benin
Yatindra Singh, Mechanical Engineer at Delphi from the Asian Country of India

Will talk about:
Why they emigrated to the US?
Culture shock
Misconceptions about the US
Racism
English as a second language
Missing home
Basmati Rice
Missing food
Finances and paying for school
Grad School
Getting internships and jobs

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If you are a minority or want to understand some struggles minorities go through, this episode is for you. I talk about the struggles of not seeing people that look like us, being perceived as inferior, thinking less of our accomplishments, and I talk about the advantages of being Hispanic.
 
Our Guest Jonathan talks about not being able to rely on immediate family to help with college, family pressures that are even higher for Latinas, feeling you do not belong, and do not deserve to be in top positions. He also will advise on how to overcome these and provides advantages of being Hispanic/LatinX.

After this episode, you will feel empowered as a minority and have new tools to succeed.

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In this episode Brian, Amethyst, and Arnold will share their NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) experience.

NCAS Website - Link

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Arnold visited Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Huntsville, Alabama
Brian and Amethyst visited Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.

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Contact Info:
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Schools attended:
University of Minnesota
Saint Paul College 
Ivy Tech Community College
Purdue University 
IUPUI
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Passaic County Community College

In this episode we will learn from LinkedIn Guru Justin Nguyen how to make a winning LinkedIn profile. Host of Declassified College Podcast.

Since it is a long episode but full of great information below is a list of topics discussed.

Topics and links:
LinkedIn Campus Editor
All Star Rating
Background photo
     https://www.canva.com/
Keywords
     https://www.jobscan.co/
Optimize Headline Section and getting people to click on your profile
     Cheat code how to get higher word limit
Arnold Morales LinkedIn
Justin Nguyen LinkedIn
Optimize About Section - story telling and capturing interest
Activity and showing up on others feed
Optimize Education Section and how to get seen more
Optimize experience Section- links and becoming more credible
Optimize volunteer Section
Skills and endorsements- how to get people to endorse you
how to get recommendations
keep your privacy and avoid spam
How to make people stay on your profile and not jump onto someone else
Making 500+ connections
connecting with strangers?
Posting Resume on LinkedIn
Viral Content
Hastags

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Guest:
Justin Nguyen Host of Declassified College Podcast

In this episode, Renzo and I will talk about what we did to get six companies to keep asking us to come back as interns or full-time employees.

This is an extra episode we added from our routine uploads. On Wednesday, we did an episode on what we learned from interning at seven companies and still had a lot to share and did not want to wait since interns are currently out and want to help.

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Guest:
Renzo La Rosa

In todays episode you will learn what Renzo, Samuel, and myself (Arnold) learned from interning at 7 companies that include NASA, Northrop Grumman, and Rolls Royce. Together we have more than 16 semesters of experience as interns

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Guest:
Samuel Guzman
Renzo La Rosa

Our Guest Celia Ochoa and Arnold will discuss how they received a combined amount of $154,000+ in student aid. 

• DACA
• Undocumented
• First Generation
• Hispanic
• Women in STEM
• Low Income
• GED Graduate 
• Community College 

Elizabeth Morales is a Honduras Immigrant that has not given up her dream of being a college graduate. Even if that means being nine years in four different colleges, two countries, and three cities, she has not taken this long because she has slacked behind; she has been a full-time student while getting super good grades and has two more years to go to finish her bachelors. Listen to her story and all the struggles she has to go through.

She has been first-generation, low income, returning, mother, full-time employee while attending school full time.

• Elizabeth's College Journey min 1
• Immigrant student challenges and how to overcome min 14:55 
• Returning students (older) and how to overcome min 20:33  
• Community College student and how to overcome min 24:35 
• A full-time employee and going to school challenges and how to overcome min 29:28 
• Being a mom and going to school challenges and how to overcome min 35:48

Mentions:
La Plaza
IUPUI
Ivy Tech Community College
Life with my superhero - Facebook Page
University of Washington
Universidad de San Pedro Sula
Hispanic Scholarship Fund YLI

Quotes:
"Perseverance, when you want something so badly, you will do anything it takes to accomplish it."

 "Giving up was not an option; it was no option before having my daughter ad; it is not an option now."

"You have to focus on the important part that is getting your education and finding your path. "

"Being a mom is not a full-time job; it is a 24-hour job."


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How to Get Your First Internship! + 4 Tips to Impress that Students Never Do

In this episode you will learn how to get your first internship! which I believe is the Most valuable experience for getting your dream job, and it will set you up for success. Aside from my voice You will also hear from some very successful professionals and students who will be sharing how they got their first internship. I am also going to be sharing 4 thing that I did that are thing students usually do not do .

Guest Speaker:
Michael Wilson