A New Perspective

One of the best parts of doing research on immigrants in New York City was learning so much about a topic I was barely interested in.  Learning from immigrants themselves helped me understand all the hardships and troubles they have to go through on a day-to-day basis.  It was difficult for me to comprehend just how difficult the immigration process actually is before I spoke to an immigrant face to face.  My interview with an immigrant really opened my eyes to the immigrant experience.  In this course, I was also challenged by the statistical profile project, which was not one of my favorites.  However this class taught me how to affectively interpret and represent quantitative data, something that I struggled with at the beginning of the semester.