Hi Class! My name is Angela Alberto and I am a graduating senior here at CSUSM. I love music, kids, reading and writing. I was born and raised in San Diego, California. Although the housing prices and cost of living are far beyond reasonable, I don’t think I could imagine myself in any other place. My father was in the Navy, but I luckily only had to move far away, once. When I was five years old my family got transferred to Seoul, Korea and that is where I attended kindergarten through half of second grade. From second to twelfth grade I attended the San Diego School District. I went to Hickman Elementary, Challenger Junior High, and Mira Mesa High.
I grew up being able to use computers and being moderately fluent in technology. I always had an interest and a knack for it. PC’s were what I grew up with, but it wasn’t until last year that I was persuaded to the growing Mac family. My boyfriend convinced me that Macs were much more suitable for the things I love to do. (record music, multi-task, make movies, etc.) I worked on his apple powerbook for a little over a month and I fell in love. I received an apple ibook for Christmas last year and it has easily been my favorite piece of technology thus far. Every single day I use it for something: the internet, word processing, listening to music, etc. I depend on technology perhaps a little bit more than the average person should. I am surrounded by it: computers, cell phone, digital camera and the television. If one of these items shut down, everything gets put on pause until it is fixed.
The one aspect of the College of Education mission statement that most stands out to me is its focus on celebrating diversity. Students must feel accepted and comfortable in the learning facility, and in order for them to feel this way, educators must themselves feel comfortable with differences in race, gender, sexuality, religion and culture that will inundate the classroom. CSUSM makes it a point to assist future educators in successfully teaching children from all types of backgrounds.
