San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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'Pl' The graduate Student Carolynn Reynolds, 24 Graduate, Counselor Education San Diego, California Before Carolynn started her graduate work, she was teaching school in Boston. Then her husband, a civil engineer presently in the Air Force, went overseas. So Carolynn came back to San Diego to be near relatives and went back to school at her alma mater, San Diego State. When her husband returns, he will be stationed in New Mexico, so Carolynn has applied for the Ph.D. education program at the University of New Mexico. If that doesn't work out, she said she will probably teach elementary school or counsel students in an Albu- querque high school. Although Carolynn is carrying 19 units, she still finds time to work at the HELP Center on campus. She said the Human Emergency Living Problems, a new organization, is similar to the Crisis Program of San Diego. She counsels students who have emotional problems, and advises students on abortions, etc. She also does counselling in the Counsellor Education Center on campus. Carolynn said she finds graduate studies very much different than her undergraduate work. For one thing, the professors are a lot easier to reach, she said. They are more informal and resource- ful with graduate students. There is more responsibility placed on the students, too. Professors take over more with undergraduates. We govern ourselves and choose. The classes are small and are divided into sub-groups, so there is more interaction between us. The Counselling Education Department is most helpful, she said. The professors are wonderful - the students are great people. There is more opportunity to do personal evaluations of ourselves and do group work. lt's a marvelous experience. lt's a close-knit de- partment with many parties and other social events. The Education Department is exceptionally good on the graduate level. The maior concern with the graduate students is trying to work and go to school, she said. Most of us are married and our career goals are of prime importance. We're concerned about what we're going to do. There are too many teachers coming out of the depart- ment with no iobs available here for us. So we're interested now in getting Ph.D.'s. With a Ph.D., it's not necessarily easier to get a iob, but the working conditions are better with one. Carolynn concluded: The life of a graduate student is hard and busy. l try to keep up with all my studies, do counselling work, man- age to keep my apartment clean, and my car in running condition. That's about all I have time for.

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Slvreign Studen tn 548-86-2810 Gregory Ubom, 22 Senior, Chemistry Uyo, Nigeria Someone at the American Embassy in Nigeria told Greg Ubom the weather was good in Southern California, in fact, similar to Nigeria's weather. Greg also has a friend who went to' school at San Diego State and liked it. So put these two reasons together and you find Greg Ubom, who has been going to State for the past three years. After he has graduated in January 1971, he plans on doing graduate work here before going back home to Uyo, located in the Southeastern State of Nigeria. He said he likes teaching, but may workin industry upon his return. Greg said the colleges and universities in Nigeria are on the British system. The education is taught very narrowly there. lt's broader here. You can back up your education with other fields- you're not restricted, he said. He said American students, especially girls, are more outspoken. Girls have more freedom than at home, he explained. The cul- tural backgrounds manifest these differences. Greg said he didn't date a lot. The society is not that receptive to Black people except where you run into people who are not preiudiced. The girls are very liberal. But the problems are with parents. American society is so complex-it's difficult-you can't predict what you are going to get out of it. Ubom, who carries T5-16 units a semester, said he doesn't have problems with professors or students. Professors really like to help. They do the best they can in chemistry, they guide students well and feel their obligations in that respect. The Chemistry Department is very, very good. Greg thinks the wide scope of required classes is great-- even though they're not scientific, they all fit in with human life. As a foreign student, Greg said the students don't all behave towards him in the same way. Accents sometimes make students feel uncomfortable, he said. Most students are very friendly, but their ideas of friendship are different, ln our country, you never leave home, your families are very close. lf people here are not close to their immediate families, how can they be close to others? Greg attends most of the get-togethers at school and is an active member of the International Students Council, He likes soccer and played in Nigeria, here he likes to play table tennis. Greg concluded: As a foreign student, I would like to say that America in general has an internal problem as a nation. Before one comes in here, one has a different impression. Before l came, l thought it a terrestrial heaven-but they have problems. They strain their outside expenses to where their inside ones are strained. There are big conflicts in the youth and their elders. Youths have more opportunities here than youths in other countries. But they don't realize this advantage here. But l think the youths who die on the fields of war should be heard-not by violence, but they should be heard. The poor in America are l0O 70 better off than in other coun- tries. The people in power should look at them though-they're human beings. Not many people here know what's going on in the outside world. They rely too much on what the news media say and don't investigate for themselves.