by Andrea Torres, San Francisco State University

I’ve said I know where I want to be and who I want to be. I’ve said that time doesn't matter when reaching ones’ objectives, what matters is each person’s yearning. The patience I’ve had during the last few years is tremendously greater than all my effort put into college applications, essays, and scholarships during the same time. Finally, I'll start my first semester at San Francisco State University in January 2009. I'm excited and I'm nervous, but I don't feel like eating the days to be there tomorrow, I'm relaxed. I’ve understood another phase of my life, paying attention to the present, to the actual time.

At this moment, fall semester has been a little bit too much... Because of destiny's will, I'm now an intern at 826 Valencia. I'm really enjoying and taking advantage of being a tutor for 6-18 year-old kids, working with 826 staff and being around writers. I spend four days of the week at 826 Valencia. The place and the work there transforms 36 hours of my life into six, it’s amazing. Meanwhile, I'm still going to Mission High, where I take a Latin American history class, taught in Spanish. I’m looking at history from another perspective. OLE and Multicultural, these couple of clubs has been part of my MHS story, as "coordinator," I still heartily working on them. On Tuesdays, I take the BART to downtown Berkeley. I have an evening biology course where all my classmates are older than me, and where homework is a lot. Fortunately, I keep my weekends saved from 826, Mission, and biology, but often times this is not possible. Even though I’ve built an intimate relationship with “time,” I’ve not manipulated it good enough…