My name's Manny Castaneda uh
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m-a-n-n-y
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and then castaneda c-a-s-t-a-n-e-d-a
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is it with n with an enya yeah it is
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yeah my name is manny castaneda i'm a
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junior here at cal state san bernardino
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majoring in marketing and i'll be
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graduating in 2023.
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i actually grew up here in san
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bernardino
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and then moved to redlands when i was
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about 10 years old and i've been there
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ever since and
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still going to cal state san bernardino
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so kept the ties really close actually
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i've been
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at cal state san bernardino for a long
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time i went to preschool here when i was
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about like three or four years old and
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my mom worked here before too
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and you know keeping those ties together
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and
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like i said
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grew up in san bernardino and redlands
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and ended up going to cal state san
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bernardino after so
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uh
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yeah keeping the i've been keeping the
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ties ever since i was about three four
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years old my mom was in financial aid
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she worked she only worked there for
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like two or three years yeah so she
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worked there and that's how i got to go
01:10
to preschool here the ties that i have
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at cal state san bernardino i've been
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here for a long time i've been there
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ever since i was three or four years old
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my mom worked on campus and financial
01:21
aid so i would go to the children's
01:23
center when i was little
01:25
and so the ties have been there for a
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long time and then i've been there ever
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since 2019 when i was a freshman so been
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here for a while
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being a csusb student is like more than
01:36
i could could have imagined when i was
01:38
in high school
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it's it's such a great environment being
01:41
there
01:42
um being even in the business in the
01:45
business school like being
01:47
in a top business school in the nation
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is it's it's an honor honestly and uh
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everyone's just always so friendly
01:54
everyone like gets along and stuff and
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the campus is beautiful too and i
01:59
actually work on campus too which is
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pretty awesome uh you know when you're
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out you're you're working one time and
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then you're going to school the next so
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never have to travel for work or
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anything so that's what's pretty cool
02:12
about it
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i'm a student assistant there on campus
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and i work in the advancement department
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and basically what we do is we handle
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scholarships and donor relations there
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so anytime a student brings in a
02:26
scholarship we overlook it make sure
02:28
that it looks good for the donors and
02:29
then we'll send it out to the donors and
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then whenever
02:33
for donor relations whenever a birthday
02:36
happens or
02:38
a report for their scholarships or their
02:41
endowment happens like we'll get it
02:43
together for the donors make sure it
02:44
looks real good and we'll send it out to
02:46
them
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i i love it i've been there since
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actually but before i was a freshman and
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when i got to campus and started filling
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out all the paperwork went to student
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employment they said that uh you
02:59
actually can't work until next week so
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i'm like oh all right i'll see you guys
03:03
next week uh and i've literally never
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had a complaint everyone's always so
03:08
nice whenever i need to have like a day
03:10
off or something happens they're always
03:13
with my schedule anytime i need
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any time like i need a day off or
03:18
anything like that they're always super
03:20
lenient with my schedule so i love it
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i'm a first generation student being a
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first generation just in general is is
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just an honor honestly i
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uh i mean i was obviously born into it
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so it's something that i couldn't
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control but i think that's just awesome
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that i can be the first one to represent
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for my family like
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going to college and graduating next
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year
03:44
will just mean so much to my family and
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then being a first generation latino is
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uh is even better like i love
03:51
representing my culture
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and love like that i'm you know from
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somewhere else and like i get to
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represent it here in america you know
03:59
america
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so many endless opportunities but uh you
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know love being latino and um showing
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off my
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uh you know my culture and stuff so yeah
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it's it's an honor honestly
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uh so being a first gen for my parents
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they're they've always been so proud of
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me and
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uh you know they always give they always
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encourage me and stuff and it's it's the
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whole reason why i keep going and uh
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being a first gen to my grandma it means
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a lot to her because you know she she's
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seen me ever since i was born and she's
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seen me become like this adult adult
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figure and uh
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yes they're they're all just so proud of
04:38
me and that's what keeps me going
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honestly like all the time sometimes
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like i think of giving up or
04:44
you know doing something else with my
04:46
life but
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that's what keeps me going every single
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day
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being part of the 11% of the latino
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population that's pursuing a college
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degree is actually shocking to me i
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didn't know that the percentage was so
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low and
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it's it's pretty cool being part of that
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that small statistic and
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uh for sure not going to let him down
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and i'm i'm going to
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graduate with the degree as well
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uh
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i think that's that's super cool being a
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part of that statistic right there being
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part of the 11% of latino men pursuing a
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college degree is actually really
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shocking to me i didn't know the
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percentage was that low
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and uh it's it's cool being a part of
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that to be honest like being part of
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that small group
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um and i won't let them down i'll for
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sure graduate with it with a degree
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yeah but it's it's in it's actually
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really cool being part of that being a
05:39
part of the 11%
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of latino men pursuing a college degree
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is actually really cool i i think that's
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awesome being part of that small little
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group
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and
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i didn't know the percentage was that
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low and
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uh definitely going to graduate for sure
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and
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be part of an even smaller percentage so
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yeah it's awesome being part of that
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being part of csusb and and having them
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be a hispanic servant institution
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actually like means a lot to me because
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you know i've california is so diverse
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and uh i never want to be part of
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something that you know discriminates or
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anything so it's actually really cool
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that you know they they're a hispanic
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servant institution and uh makes me feel
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welcome you know what i mean so
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uh yeah it's it's
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really cool being part of that having
06:30
csusb being a hispanic serving
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institution is actually really cool and
06:36
uh
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california is so diverse
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and i always want to be included i want
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everyone to be included in everything
06:44
and
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i definitely like that their hispanic
06:48
servant institution not leaving anybody
06:49
out
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and
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it's really nice to be a part of
06:53
something like that
06:54
having csusb being a hispanic serving
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institution
06:58
it actually makes everyone it makes me
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and i'm sure everyone else feel welcome
07:03
and stuff here on campus and california
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being so diverse
07:08
it's just really cool having everyone be
07:10
included and stuff and i'm really glad
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to be a part of something like that
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having csusb being a hispanic serving
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institution is really really awesome and
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it makes makes me feel welcome here
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just because you know i'm a latino male
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and
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southern california being so diverse i
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want everyone to be included and makes
07:30
me and all the other latinos the latinas
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here on campus
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feel welcomed and um like everyone feels
07:38
included as well
07:40
family is super important to me it
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always has and uh
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like in the latino culture
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uh
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family is like like the most important
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and then everything else comes uh
07:52
family is just like you guys do
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everything together you guys like have
07:55
dinner together you guys go on family
07:57
trips together and
07:59
always bonding and stuff my family
08:02
actually means so much to me that i i
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come
08:05
i come to my grandma's house for lunch
08:08
twice a week
08:09
rather that's a school break or that's a
08:12
lunch break for from work
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um yeah family's just
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always been number one always been
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raised like that and wouldn't have it
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and wouldn't want to have it any other
08:22
way i would say that i feel the family
08:25
environment on the csusb campus like
08:27
almost all the time when whenever
08:30
whenever you're walking around campus
08:32
you know obviously we have masks on
08:34
right now so you can't really see people
08:35
smiling but everyone always says hey
08:37
hello how you doing
08:39
in my department at work everyone's
08:41
always super friendly we always get
08:43
along
08:44
and
08:46
whenever you're going like to smsu the
08:49
student center
08:50
anywhere everyone's always so welcoming
08:53
and i always feel that that family
08:54
Aspect. what drew me to csusb and like
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what i love about it as well was that uh
09:00
the business program and also like it
09:03
has a pretty nice scenery i'm not gonna
09:05
lie
09:06
right there on the mountain and stuff uh
09:09
but i love to talk to people and i love
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business and business is never gonna go
09:14
away and so i kind of put two and two
09:16
together and i was like okay like i want
09:18
to do something in sales or something in
09:20
marketing so i
09:23
found out that csusb has a great
09:25
business program one of the best in the
09:27
country and uh started majoring in
09:30
marketing and i literally love it
09:32
and
09:34
that that's not that's what i want to
09:35
pursue when i'm when i'm older i want to
09:37
be a pharmaceutical salesman and i think
09:39
that csusb is doing a really good job
09:42
with uh
09:43
making me a great business student. being
09:46
a part of csusb's nationally ranked
09:50
business school and
09:51
being known for having a great quality
09:54
business school is it actually means a
09:56
lot because like whenever somebody goes
09:59
to school i'm sure that they want to
10:00
have a good quality education and
10:02
knowing that i'm getting that is uh it
10:05
feels good and that that i won't really
10:08
have problems with employers or anything
10:10
or uh knowing that that i won't miss out
10:13
on um on knowing some business aspects
10:16
or preparing me for the future it feels
10:19
good that you know i'm getting taken
10:21
care of at cal state san bernardino
10:23
attending a nationally ranked business
10:24
school feels awesome i'm so glad to have
10:27
a
10:28
great quality education
10:30
and um knowing that like i'm
10:34
gonna be taking care of here at cal
10:35
state san bernardino it's it's it's
10:38
awesome and um
10:40
you know there's there's other business
10:41
schools out there and stuff and i'm sure
10:43
that everybody wants to get the top-tier
10:46
quality education and knowing that i'm
10:48
getting that that that just feels great
10:50
and so glad to be a part of something
10:52
like that.
10:54
what makes csusb's business program so
10:56
great is that
10:58
besides the professors and um
11:01
you know lectures and all that learning
11:03
about the material
11:04
you always have someone to help you
11:06
there's always like advisors there
11:08
there's always students there that you
11:11
know are constantly giving advice and
11:13
helping you get to that next step and
11:15
getting you through this semester and
11:17
stuff and having people that
11:20
having people that i work with as well
11:22
that went to the same business school
11:23
that i did
11:24
i'll get recommendations
11:26
or they'll tell me you know take this
11:28
professor this professor like you know
11:30
really helps or helps you understand it
11:32
and stuff i think i think that's uh one
11:35
of the
11:36
big things being a part of the
11:38
business school.
11:40
what it's like being taught by industry
11:42
experts is actually really cool because
11:45
when these teachers are given their
11:47
intros at the beginning of the semesters
11:49
it's
11:51
it's actually overwhelming that these
11:53
professors have been like part of
11:54
something so big like
11:56
one of my marketing professors she was
11:58
part of nestle another i had a finance
12:00
professor that uh he had his own
12:03
investment bank or not investment bank
12:05
but he had his own investment fund and i
12:07
was just like like how do you even start
12:09
something like that and you're over here
12:11
teaching me uh like how to do finance i
12:13
i think that's just like it's
12:15
overwhelming sometimes that like these
12:18
people are teaching me like business and
12:20
stuff so it also gives me some
12:22
confidence too that like you know these
12:24
people were college students just like
12:26
me like i can be just like them. it's
12:28
overwhelming but i love being
12:31
i love being taught by these industry
12:33
Professionals.
12:35
what it's like being taught by industry
12:37
experts is uh it's sometimes it's
12:39
overwhelming because
12:41
some of my professors like they they've
12:43
worked for big corporations like nestle
12:45
and i had a finance professor that he
12:48
had his own investment fund and i think
12:50
that's just that's amazing to me and
12:52
sometimes it actually gives me a lot of
12:54
confidence because
12:56
it's like like these people were just
12:58
like me at one time like i can be just
13:00
like them or even better so uh yeah they
13:03
raised my confidence to you know get to
13:05
that next level and um you know
13:08
just
13:09
like believe in myself because they were
13:11
like i said they were just like me one
13:13
time.
13:14
some csusb offices that have supported
13:17
me through my academic journey
13:19
is the college of
13:21
business the jack brown college of
13:22
business
13:24
i say that because
13:25
whenever i need an advisor i can book an
13:27
appointment and they'll help me with
13:29
picking classes they'll tell me
13:32
what what types of classes that i that i
13:34
like based on my interest that i'll tell
13:36
them
13:36
uh also there's so much support that i
13:39
get in there there's like tutors there's
13:41
tutors that i can go to
13:43
um there's the a whole marketing
13:45
department that i can go to ask
13:47
questions and all that good stuff. also i
13:50
in university advancement in the
13:52
administration building they've given me
13:54
so much support like
13:57
any time that i need like help you know
13:59
picking a professor or if i ever need
14:02
like some extra study time they'll let
14:04
me like get off work early or something
14:07
like that and
14:09
yeah they're just they're great they're
14:11
great there. what i like most about
14:13
working with university advancement is
14:15
just the the environment honestly and
14:17
that's why i've always been satisfied
14:20
there uh everyone's just always so
14:22
friendly we all get along and i always
14:24
try to bring the energy in the room and
14:26
stuff
14:27
and
14:28
yeah we're just we always get along
14:30
there's always some type of food in
14:32
there there's always some types of
14:33
sweets
14:34
um sometimes
14:37
throughout the year we'll have events
14:38
and stuff and it's just nice working
14:39
with them because we're all so reliable
14:41
and um
14:43
yeah we're just all we're all one big
14:45
group
14:46
all one big family honestly. uh working
14:48
in in universe what was the uh what do
14:50
you like best working in university
14:53
advancement what i like best about
14:55
working in university advancement is
14:56
just that it's such a friendly
14:59
environment i love the environment and
15:01
that's why i've always been satisfied
15:03
working there everyone's just always
15:05
gets along and we always have super good
15:08
communication
15:09
and
15:11
there's always some types of food or
15:13
sweets that are in the office
15:15
and uh we all just uh we all communicate
15:18
really good
15:19
and
15:20
we throw events
15:22
at different times of the year and it's
15:24
just always nice you know
15:26
doing events with such a great team.
15:29
what i like about marketing is just that
15:31
it's like such a broad subject
15:34
that like if my
15:37
path that i originally want which is to
15:39
be a pharmaceutical salesman
15:41
if it doesn't work out then i can do
15:43
something else like if if i really want
15:45
to i could be a teacher
15:47
i can i can be something in marketing i
15:49
could be head of marketing or
15:51
do something with social media it's just
15:53
like it's such a broad subject and where
15:56
technology is going right now is going
15:58
to like more techy stuff
16:01
marketing is perfect for that because
16:03
with our phones that we can market so
16:05
many things or just like with computers
16:07
anything
16:09
that's what i love about marketing
16:10
that's just such a wide variety of
16:13
Anything. the first scholarship i
16:15
received was the century 21 lois lara
16:17
realty scholarship and you know that
16:20
that meant the world to me that we have
16:22
donors out there that care about our
16:24
education and investing in us like
16:26
investing in the future and um you know
16:28
it really meant a lot to me and it also
16:31
helped me a lot obviously financially
16:33
because you know it's a scholarship and
16:36
uh helped me a lot with you know paying
16:37
for books and paying for all other
16:39
supplies
16:41
on campus and stuff
16:42
and the second scholarship that i
16:44
received was the richard c mosley
16:46
marketing scholarship
16:48
and same thing with that just like i'm
16:50
i'm i always get this same reaction and
16:53
and i love it like i got a bunch of
16:55
dopamine you know running through my
16:56
brain and uh just like it means the
17:00
world to me that these donors really
17:02
care about us and you know they're
17:04
investing in us and it's crazy that it's
17:06
a stranger like giving you money they're
17:09
literally investing
17:11
in uh in our future in our education so
17:13
like i i thank them to this day write
17:15
them the best thank you letters that i
17:16
can, yeah. what it feels like to be a
17:19
scholarship recipient is
17:21
it's it's amazing
17:23
just to have people
17:25
uh that you don't even know invest in
17:28
you and invest in your education
17:30
it it feels great.
17:32
when when you see your uh when you see
17:35
the notification that you got the
17:36
scholarship you're just you're jumping
17:38
up and down in joy like wow i got a
17:40
scholarship and like out of everybody
17:43
that that applied and stuff like you
17:44
were chosen it's just uh it's it's
17:47
awesome having that feeling.
17:50
i felt amazing it like i was jumping in
17:53
down i was jumping up and down for joy
17:55
like you know receiving a scholarship it
17:57
was it was just the best feeling in the
17:59
world that you got somebody that's
18:01
investing in your education and uh you
18:04
know they care about you and stuff and
18:06
having them being a complete stranger is
18:08
like it honestly feels even better like
18:10
wow these people really care about our
18:12
future and
18:14
investing in education especially here
18:16
at cal state san Bernardino. i felt
18:18
amazing i felt great being a scholarship
18:20
recipient and
18:22
you know just having someone that is a
18:24
complete stranger invest in your
18:26
education is just like it's it's the
18:28
best villain in the world
18:30
that you know they're invested in the
18:32
future and they honestly didn't truly
18:34
care about like the campus and our
18:36
school and uh
18:38
out of all the applicants like that i
18:40
was chosen it just it's
18:42
it doesn't get better than that it
18:44
really doesn't.
18:45
the importance of being involved on
18:47
campus i think it's almost like
18:49
mandatory at least for somebody like me
18:52
because it just you know it makes you
18:55
feel proud that you go to this school
18:56
you know you're
18:57
like i'm involved in work go to school
19:00
here i talk to everybody that walks past
19:03
me
19:04
and um it's
19:05
it's
19:07
you you kind of have to almost because
19:09
you know you're there all the time and
19:12
you're associating yourself with
19:13
everybody so it's uh yeah i love being
19:16
involved on campus and
19:19
wouldn't want to wouldn't want to be
19:20
like a part of any other school honestly.
19:23
i think being involved on campus is
19:26
super important especially for a person
19:27
like me like i always loved being
19:30
involved loved being the center of
19:31
attention too and like i'm involved on
19:34
work and campus here and like i said i
19:37
went to preschool here or i went to the
19:39
children's center here too
19:41
so uh i think it's i think it's super
19:43
important um just staying busy and you
19:46
know interacting with everybody
19:48
and yeah it's just such a great school i
19:51
wouldn't have wanted to have any other
19:52
Way.
19:53
i'm proud to be a coyote because
19:55
i'm receiving such a great quality
19:57
education
19:58
uh
19:59
hispanic serving institute
20:01
it's super close to my family and family
20:03
something that means a lot to me
20:05
and uh you know working on campus too is
20:08
this like it all ties in together and uh
20:11
i just
20:13
love being a part of this it's almost
20:15
like we're all a family and we're all
20:16
just all strangers to each other but you
20:18
know we all connect with each other and
20:20
stuff too so yeah that's why i'm proud
20:22
to be a coyote. what makes me proud to be
20:24
a coyote is just
20:26
that i'm receiving such a great quality
20:29
education
20:30
we got so much support here on campus
20:33
all the time
20:35
we have such great facility such great
20:37
faculty
20:38
and
20:39
working on camp working here on campus i
20:41
went to the children's center here when
20:43
i was little it's just like it all ties
20:45
it back in together and i
20:48
literally like it gets overwhelming
20:50
sometimes that like you have
20:53
so much
20:54
in like such a like a small environment
20:57
and
20:57
everyone's just always so great so
21:01
yeah just just an environment honestly
21:03
that's what makes me proud to be a
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Coyote.
21:05
csusb has helped me define my future
21:08
uh just by it's con like when you get to
21:11
college it's like an open-ended question
21:13
like you could do anything and you know
21:16
i've had so much support with professors
21:19
with faculty staff everything
21:21
and uh
21:23
like
21:24
you literally could like i said you
21:25
could do anything you can you can be a
21:27
teacher if you want you can be a
21:29
policeman you can i want to be a
21:30
pharmaceutical salesman so
21:32
uh it's
21:34
i've had so much support from uh from my
21:37
co-workers
21:39
from my higher ups
21:40
and
21:41
all my professors that i've had they
21:43
they're just they're awesome. csusb has
21:45
helped me define my future because of
21:47
like all the staff supporting the
21:50
professors
21:51
my co-workers that work with me
21:53
higher-ups like i just always have so
21:55
much support and um you know going to
21:58
college is such an open-ended question
22:00
and you could do anything and that's
22:01
what's so cool about cal state san
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bernardino that you literally can do
22:05
anything you can be anything you want
22:06
and
22:07
i love that about this school and super
22:10
proud to be a coyote.
22:12
my plans after after cal state san
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bernardino after graduating is uh what
22:17
i've always wanted to be a
22:19
pharmaceutical salesman
22:21
right after high school that's just what
22:23
i wanted to do i've seen like family
22:25
life that people have
22:27
and um and how they're always involved
22:29
and stuff with with their family so and
22:31
that's something that means that that's
22:33
something that means a lot to me so
22:35
uh that's that's just a little bit part
22:37
of my plan. i also want to get my masters
22:40
in business
22:41
after hopefully while i'm working as
22:43
well because
22:44
i mean
22:46
don't really want to be stagnant and
22:47
Stuff.
22:48
some of my goals after graduation is to
22:52
be a pharmaceutical salesman after
22:53
college
22:55
uh i also want to get my master's
22:58
master's degree in business
23:00
after college as well and just have
23:03
just keep having that same family aspect
23:05
that i've always had my whole life and
23:08
you know start a family somewhere around
23:09
here keep it local and
23:12
yeah those are some of my future plans
23:14
when i got here to cal state san
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bernardino i didn't know
23:19
i didn't know about any scholarships i
23:21
didn't know that there was like a
23:22
scholarship site on my coyote and my
23:25
boss was telling me about it like hey
23:27
are you going to apply for scholarships
23:28
and i'm like oh i didn't know that i
23:30
didn't know that we could
23:31
so she helped me
23:33
help me apply and i ended up getting one
23:36
and
23:37
you know i
23:40
revised my own thank you letter
23:42
and
23:43
uh yeah and then the next time like i
23:46
had it down and then i've been helping
23:48
everybody else with their scholarships
23:49
and kind of been promoting
23:51
people to like apply for scholarships
23:53
just so they have like the same
23:55
opportunity that i did
23:56
so yeah that's that's how how i got two
23:59
Scholarships. when i got here to cal
24:02
state san bernardino and i was working
24:03
on campus
24:05
my boss at csusb was
24:08
helping me out with applying for
24:10
scholarships and at first i didn't know
24:13
that that you could apply so
24:16
yeah my boss from cal state she was
24:18
helping me apply for scholarships and
24:21
thank God that i got to and was so
24:23
grateful for those to this day.
24:25
something that's a part of my job is
24:27
helping people apply for scholarships or
24:30
write their thank you letters and so
24:32
sometimes i'll get some students that
24:34
are asking for help on
24:36
applying for scholarships and i'll guide
24:38
them through it and help them through
24:40
and show them how to apply and
24:43
don't know if they've gotten
24:44
scholarships but i feel like i'm making
24:46
a difference doing that just simply
24:48
helping somebody
24:50
access the scholarship site. it's like so
24:52
random and they'll just pop in the
24:54
office they're like hey is this like
24:56
where you go for thank you letters and
24:58
i'm like yeah and then they're like how
24:59
do you apply and then
25:01
Boom. i'll just be oh you got your laptop
25:03
on you boom boom
25:05
yeah i would like be like hey come come
25:07
over here like take a seat and like i'll
25:09
show them like how to do out pop on my
25:11
coyote like hop on it and then i'm like
25:13
yeah you want to log in and stuff so
25:15
yeah it's it's cool honestly because if
25:18
i was in their shoes like i don't want
25:20
someone to help me like that too so
25:21
that's what i do i put myself in other
25:23
people's shoes. if you're a future
25:25
student here at cal state san bernardino
25:27
my advice to you is that like there's
25:30
the top quality education you have so
25:33
much support around you whether you know
25:35
it or not it's such a beautiful campus
25:38
great scenery and
25:40
and we just have wonderful staff and
25:42
professors here that you know they
25:44
really know what they're doing and and
25:46
they care about your quality education
25:48
and i'm a scholarship recipient you have
25:50
donors that care about you they care
25:52
about your future and uh your time here
25:55
at cal state san bernardino so you know
25:57
if if you're uh if you're you know up in
26:00
the air about like cal state being your
26:02
number one choice i i think that cal
26:04
state should be your number one choice
26:05
because
26:06
you know you you always got support it's
26:08
a great environment too.
26:11
my name is manny castaneda i love csusb
26:14
and i'm a coyote for life.
26:16
my name is manny castaneda i love csusb
26:19
and i'm a coyote for life.
26:21
my name is manny castaneda i love csusb
26:24
and i'm a coyote for life.
26:26
my name is lulu
26:29
l u l u esparza
26:32
e s p a r
26:35
z a
26:37
my name is lulu esparza
26:40
and
26:41
i'm grandma for Manny
26:45
oh
26:46
i'm so proud for many many things
26:50
since she was little i took it to the
26:53
school
26:54
um all most of all the grades
26:57
and um
26:59
and it's a pleasure to see him
27:01
how
27:03
he's growing so much and his life in
27:07
the school
27:08
and he take it very serious
27:11
all the school and i'm very very proud
27:14
of him and i love him so much.
27:17
it's a
27:19
very happy
27:20
feeling inside
27:23
especially in me
27:25
because
27:27
no one that my family
27:31
go to the college
27:32
like him and he i think he's the first
27:35
one he's going to be a good good example
27:38
for the rest of my grandkids.
27:43
well that is a
27:44
that is a big blessing i
27:46
love to cook and uh he love my food
27:50
and every other day that he come he's
27:53
excited to come with me i'm so excited
27:55
to wait for him
27:56
and feed him
27:58
and he enjoyed all my mexican food
28:00
course i'm very mexican
28:02
but uh he loved it and we have a good
28:05
time
28:06
and plus he don't have to buy all those
28:08
food fast foods
28:10
and a lot of people
28:12
well it's jealous of him
28:15
and i'm proud of him and we are so happy
28:18
to be together
28:19
so excited every time that we come
28:21
together to have lunch together.
28:24
it's very exciting and start preparing
28:26
myself to get the good news
28:29
and hopefully the Lord give me long life
28:32
still to see
28:33
all the progress that my grandkids 
28:35
all the ones.
28:37
thank you yeah and thank you the Lord.