Focusing the Lasers

Focusing The Lasers from Sean McFarland on Vimeo.

Focusing The Lasers is a movie created by two Chabot College students exploring the kinds of students that attend college. The movie characterizes six types of students: visitors, wanderers, explorers, seekers, dreamers, and lasers. The ultimate goal of a student is to get to the laser phase. Which means they "have a good idea of what they want to do,  they have a lot of momentum going towards their pathways, and they have a good sense of the culture in college". Many students are in the other categories because they don't know what they want to do in life or  budget cuts took their classes away. The situation doesn't matter, everyone can become a "laser" student.

I think that I fall into the "laser" category. I got a good sense of the college culture and i'm about to start my 4th semester this fall. I knew what I wanted to study way before I started college. I didn't know were I wanted to transfer to at first, but right before I began my first semester last fall I took a tour at the University of San Francisco. I knew that this is the school I wanted to be at. Everything about it was great. I set up a counseling at USF and I told them how interested I was in attending their school. They gave me a lot of info and gave me a guide of classes to take at Chabot in order to be able to transfer within two years. So that's what I am doing now. I'm full of motivation and ambition. It just so happens that my soccer coach at here at Chabot graduated from USF with a full ride soccer scholarship, so I have a totally credible letter of recommendation coming my way. I just have to really focus and get my act together and i'll be able to play and study at USF. It's like one of the laser kids said, "there is no easy way out.. there just one route to get to the place you want to be". I feel good about being in this category because I know i'm doing the right thing and i'm doing something I know I can. I just have to not give up and try the hardest I can.