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Adventures and Experiences of This New Coog @ The Valenti School of Communication #3
This being only my second semester here at UH has been quite hard to find friends. Especially with COVID among us making our biggest efforts to stay connected via the internet. It is necessary to have human contact with majors such as communication. I tried to navigate to the best of my abilities during my first semester and was able to create some friendships with my peers only to find myself saying goodbye as they walked the stage at their commencement ceremony. Leaving me at square one in the venture of on-campus classes at a new school such as UH.
I remembered that a few years back as I was figuring out what I wanted to major in and what university would be the best fit for my transfer. I reached out to one of my friends I met back in middle school as I was aware that she was soon to graduate from UH with a communications major. She was of great help then to explain her initial process as to how she decided on attending UH herself.
I recently reached out to my dearest friend Yasely Carrizales to get more insight into her experience and overall advice not only for myself but for all our freshmen or future coogs to come. Yasely graduated in Fall 2014 with a major in Broadcast Communications and a minor in Spanish. She mentioned that she knew she had a passion for communications and helping her community and just knew this would be the best career choice for her. UH was always her dream school aside from being near home. Yasely explained that her family is one of the most important reasons for her to stay in town as for most Latinos. UH would be a no-brainer choice for her as it would be for any other Hispanic/ Latino student.
Aside from the close commute to her family home UH was by far the University she felt was the best fit as she found it extremely inclusive in diversity. Yasely fit in like a glove and advised me of such inclusive ambient, years prior when I initially asked for her advice. I was fascinated when I found out she was working on El Gato Media Network. I would take a listen to the station when I knew she would be on and it was at that moment I was convinced I wanted to experience that myself. It was until I saw the amazing work Yasely has done thanks to her experience at EL Gato that she went on to work for some amazing radio stations like The Bull and Mega 101 for some time.
I took the opportunity of asking Yasely what advice would she give new students and her response was “ my advice to new students would be to focus on their studies, get involved with organizations, have a group of people who can help you and show you around, ask questions even if you think they are stupid, go to seminars and visit different colleges to make sure you do something that makes you happy”. Words that resonate so much as I know many new students might be thinking the same as I did once. Feeling overwhelmed, nervous, and maybe uncertain.
I initially wanted to study the same as Yasely did. The big reason being I also wanted to help out in my community and realized that this career path just like Yasely would generate me such an opportunity and platform to do so. I have now decided I want to major in Public Relations and minor in Journalism. Something I owe a lot to the amazing advice and mentorship from this amazing young woman I admire so much and look forward to possibly working alongside her in the near future.
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