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href="/blog/alfredo-trinidad-lira-iii" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Beating the Odds</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li>by <span class="byline">Alfredo Trinidad Lira III</span> </li> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2022-04-15T00:34:00-07:00" title="Friday, April 15, 2022 - 12:34am" class="datetime">April 15, 2022</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="putah-creek vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/students" hreflang="en">Stories: Students</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><strong>Alfredo Trinidad Lira III '23</strong></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div 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writing and a minor in psychology. A senior and a transfer student, she is documenting the experience of having her first year on campus, which is also her last. For her, and about 1,500 other senior transfer students whose first year was remote, graduation is rushing towards them like a double-decker Unitrans bus.</em></p> Finding a Way to UC Davis <p>I’m still amazed that I made it here. </p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/blog/data-science-vintage-clothing-fashion-forward" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3651/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/media/images/Tuan_JV%20-%2032-min_0.jpeg?h=248c587b&itok=Mfp05Cgw" width="135" height="135" alt="Tuan Tat portrait" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/blog/data-science-vintage-clothing-fashion-forward" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Data Science + Vintage Clothing = Fashion Forward</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li>by <span class="byline">Fiona Li</span> </li> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-12-01T21:36:17-08:00" title="Wednesday, December 1, 2021 - 9:36pm" class="datetime">December 01, 2021</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="putah-creek vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/students" hreflang="en">Stories: Students</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><strong>Tuan Tat ‘23</strong><br> Statistical Data Science <p>Tuan Tat’s journey to the University of California, Davis began 68 miles away. It might as well have been another world.</p> <p>Growing up in Oakland, California, a city he experienced as “a destitute land of hustlers,” Tat was influenced by the local culture to focus on making money rather than pursuing higher education.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser category-brand--putah-creek vm-teaser--featured"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/news/journey-continues-paolo-soto-21" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3651/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/media/images/paula-soto%20horiz_0.jpeg?h=7385b437&itok=yx20p6Gl" width="135" height="135" alt="Paula Soto '21 with her decorated grad cap" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/news/journey-continues-paolo-soto-21" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Journey Continues: Paula Soto '21</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-06-03T09:10:49-07:00" title="Thursday, June 3, 2021 - 9:10am" class="datetime">June 03, 2021</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="putah-creek vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/students" hreflang="en">Stories: Students</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>I grew up in a Mexican immigrant family household in Southeast Los Angeles. I am the oldest and the first to attend college in hopes of being a role model for my younger siblings. I was encouraged to go to college by my middle school teachers and my dad, who told me to aim higher and never give up. Because of them, college was something I knew I wanted, and I got it. And I never gave up on school, even in those moments when it got tough and I was worried about failing. </p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/blog/being-light-building-career-helping-others-succeed" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3651/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/media/images/20160304_african_diaspora_9249%20%281%29.jpg?h=6f3285a6&itok=DPm0OL5G" width="135" height="135" alt="Kayton Carter laughs while advising a student" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/blog/being-light-building-career-helping-others-succeed" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Being that Light: Building a career helping others succeed</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-03-03T10:10:49-08:00" title="Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 10:10am" class="datetime">March 03, 2021</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="tahoe vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/staff" hreflang="en">Stories: Staff</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">Kayton Carter, Executive Director of Academic Advising Enrichment, shares his first gen story. <p><em>Kayton Carter, MA recently became Executive Director for Academic Advising Enrichment at UC Davis. He was previously</em> <em>Executive Director of UC Davis’ three retention centers and four retention initiatives, which support African diaspora, Asian Pacific Islander, Chicanx and Latinx, and Native American students, and was founding director the Center for African Diaspora Student Success, UC Davis’ first Black student retention center. </em></p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/blog/ivory-tower-or-just-big-mountain" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3651/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/images/article/T_AK3.jpg?h=b03c4860&itok=lC_b32gH" width="135" height="135" alt="Trevor Waldien on the hills of the mountain." class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/blog/ivory-tower-or-just-big-mountain" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ivory Tower -- Or Just a Big Mountain?</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-09-25T14:01:32-07:00" title="Friday, September 25, 2020 - 2:01pm" class="datetime">September 25, 2020</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="putah-creek vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/students" hreflang="en">Stories: Students</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">Trevor Waldien PhD Student, Geology <p>I grew up in a rural logging town in coastal Oregon. 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Why are those rocks tilted on their side?" </p> <p>Sometime during high school, I decided I was going to go to college to study geology.</p></div> </div> </div> </article> <article class="node node--type-sf-article vm-teaser category-brand--putah-creek vm-teaser--featured"> <div class="vm-teaser__figure"> <div class="field field--name-field-sf-m-primary-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <a href="/blog/irving-huerta-urban-planner" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3651/files/styles/sf_thumbnail/public/images/article/IrvingPhoto.jpeg?h=4362216e&itok=MHnSY7X2" width="135" height="135" alt="Irving Huerta '20 in front of the UC Davis sign" class="image-style-sf-thumbnail" /> </a> </div> </div> <div class="vm-teaser__body"> <h3 class="vm-teaser__title"><a href="/blog/irving-huerta-urban-planner" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">I Got My Dream Job as an Urban Planner</span> </a></h3> <ul class="vm-teaser__byline"> <li><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-09-18T18:25:05-07:00" title="Friday, September 18, 2020 - 6:25pm" class="datetime">September 18, 2020</time> </span> </li> </ul> <ul class="vm-teaser__categories"> <li class="putah-creek vm-teaser__cat-marker"><a href="/stories/students" hreflang="en">Stories: Students</a></li> </ul> <div class="vm-teaser__summary"> <div class="u-space-bottom--small clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item">Irving Huerta '20 - Sustainable Environmental Design and Political Science - Public Service <p><em>By Irving Huerta with Hailey Chatterton '20</em></p> <p><strong>I graduated in the middle of a pandemic with two degrees in hand, and my dream job as an urban planner. 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