8B. Sonia Sotomayor

“Inhale the Bad Exhale the Good”

My Six word Memoir
Me personally I was never a huge fan of memoirs, and its still feel the same way after reading Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir. However Southern did a great job picking out her memoir to be a common read for all freshmen’s because they are aspects that many can relate for instance, she was the first in her family to go off to college, she was a diabetic, and she’s from a minority family. Everybody can at least relate to one of those things.

What can first-year college students learn from her book about applying for college is that college is the door of opportunities. You will never know what you are passionate about until you go off to college. Reason is because say a person is very interested in becoming a nurse, so they go off to college and major in nursing. But once they start taking classes in nursing they come to realize that they aren’t really passionate about it so they find some else that surprising they love and intend to major in it. That’s why college is the door of opportunities because you never know what you are really passionate about.

Here’s the cover of the book:

Overall her books talks about the adversity she had to face in order to become the woman that she is today and now becoming a role model to many people in the world especially for the minority culture because if she can do it you can do it to.

Here is a video of Sonia Sotomayor discussing her book and sharing her struggles, success and talking to actress Eva Longoria.

http://youtu.be/B4PY9KV5DwA

After reading this book it taught me very valuable lessons when it comes to me facing with college, and how I can transfer myself after college.