Every week, a group of undergraduate students cluster around Timothy Wong, a comparative literature graduate student studying at UC Irvine. They go over a lesson plan and make sure they are ready to carry it out and teach low-income juniors at Orange High School.
News sources reporting on the likely budget cuts to enrollment and certain departments on each campus have maintained the current uncertainty of the effects. But these cuts have already taken a toll on UC Irvine’s quality education in unseen ways.
Twenty years ago, I entered this world with no idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometime after that, I wanted to become a Pokemon master. At age 11, I was waiting for my letter from Hogwarts so I could grow up to be a wizard. Today, I’m working toward a career in journalism. And for some reason, out of all those career dreams, my mother objected to my career as a journalist the most.
