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<<< Scholarships & Grants
Thanks to alumni and friends, in 2006 the USCA awarded scholarships totaling $23,368 to 24 co-opers. Meet four of these exceptional co-opers!
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FROM: China
CO-OPS: Hoyt Hall
MEMBER SINCE: August 2004
MAJOR: PhD Student in Civil Engineering
This semester Min plans to take courses, do data collection for her research and work on her English. Her goals after graduation? “I want to be a teacher in a university (crossing my fingers).”
Keeping an open mind: “In my first two weeks’ life in co-ops, I saw more new/weird stuff than I had seen in the past 5 years. But I learned that I should/could not judge people based on how they look or what they like to do. They can be very nice people no matter what is the color of their hair, what they wear and who they like to be with. If I just focus on the surface, I will miss the chance to know a beautiful heart.”
What Min loves best about the women of Hoyt: “We share food, a house, love, sadness; we help each other all the time.
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FROM: Prunedale, CA
CO-OPS: Oscar Wilde House
MEMBER SINCE: Fall 2002
MAJOR: Architecture
Nick has the co-op bug - he has served as a board member, VP for Development and Planning, and as President. He was also the Chair of the CZ Committee, which oversaw the initial plans to seismically retrofit and make CZ accessible. He was even a member of USCA summer construction crew. At his co-op, he has served as House Manager, Workshift Manager, and is now co-president.
NIck is also proud of his work with the Queer Alliance and helped put on the first major LGBT events on campus in years-- the 2004 Big Queer Event and the 2005 Queer Dance. Did we mention that he was also university ADA inspector? All that plus a major in Architecture and two minors means that Nick is finishing up his degree after five years this semester. He plans to go to China for the summer to study Mandarin.
After he leaves the co-ops, Nick’s goals are to save the world and become an architect and community builder.
What Nick loves best about his co-op...“the LGBT theme and community, and its ability to empower and engage, and to produce random dance parties in the basement.”
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FROM: Fremont, CA
CO-OPS: Casa Zimbabwe
MEMBER SINCE: Fall 2002
MAJOR: Engineering Physics
The typical college experience: William’s recent projects include developing software for cryogenic fridges, investigating the properties planar ion traps, and of course, studying symbolic logic and complexity theory in his free time.
William plans on grad school, and then thinks he will “try to land a high-paying computer science job for a year to pay off my college loans, but I’ll probably end up as a poor research scientist working on something benign in a feeble attempt to explain the universe.” Indeed.
The co-ops as a Technological Utopia: “I’ve learnt many practical skills as a maintainence crew member, and as house network administrator. When it comes to learning Linux, there’s no substitute for a dedicated group of computer nerds living together, learning in parallel.”
Why William loves his co-op: "I can’t imagine such a complete collection of quirky individuals spanning the spectrum of weirdness anywhere else."
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FROM: Los Angeles, CA via Jalisco, Mexico
CO-OPS: Ridge House, Fenwick
MEMBER SINCE: Summer 2005
MAJOR: Architecture
Brenda recently co-founded IDEAS (Improving Dreams Education and Access to Success) a campus group that will be providing services and support for immigrant students. Eventually She hopes to help immigrant high school students make it college.
Brenda hopes to go to grad school and receive Masters in Public Policy.
“The co-ops have influenced me by changing the way I felt about student’s ability to govern ourselves. The thing that I love the most about my co-op is that it helps students financially through scholarships, loans and offers various payment options.”
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