On September 22 I went to the Sonia Sotomayor workshop. It was about an hour long but I wasn’t really happy with it. Instead of talking about what she is planning to do for the nation and what her goals are, they mainly talked about her history and early life. Much of it I had already known but I felt that what was more important was about knowing about what she wants to do NOW. They touched a bit on how she won’t be racist in her judgements in court but I would have wanted to know what exactly she has done thus far. With this workshop I felt a bit disenchanted.
So far I feel like Baruch has been pretty good. I don’t feel lost here but I do want to get more involved with the school. I don’t enjoy just coming in and going home. However, it is hard because two of the four days we are here we end at 5:30. I feel that it is hard for me personally to juggle work, school and my personal social life. The work load here is greater than what most of my friends get in other CUNY and for them it is easier to juggle all of this. But on a brighter side I do enjoy coming to school. I plan to join a club, I am not sure which one exactly but hopefully within these couple of weeks i’ll decide on a club that I would feel is more beneficial to me for my future and at the same time is exciting.
I also went that day to the workshop and as the hispnaic I am, i feel extremely proud of a person like Sotomayor becoming judge of the supreme court.
The only negative aspect of the workshop was that it diverged to topics like domestic violence, crimes and other subjects that I found irrelevant to theme of Sotomayor