Dorm Room Study

This was fine with me; I had two friends, who had two groups of friends, and two different lifestyles. .
             Vanessa was a more traditional girl, brought up in a Catholic, traditional, Hispanic home with both parents and younger siblings to whom she was a role model. She was a good student all through her younger years and was always involved in extracurricular activities. She was involved in team sports all through high school and her parents, family, and friends would all go watch her play. She went to a high school which was very racially integrated with many ethnic groups that made up the school population. Her father was a doctor, and mother a teacher. Vanessa received many different scholarships for her academic excellence and was an aspiring attorney who was determined to finish college easily, and quickly. She came to UIC because she loved the City life and was ready to explore her surroundings. .
             Valerie was a liberal, "artsy" kind of person. She was definitely different in terms of physical appearance. She was a "big, black, strong woman" as she quoted. Her home was in a poor, black neighborhood, where she was always being watched by different neighbors as her mother worked two jobs a night, every night to support her only child. Her father was non-existent since before she was born and had no intention of returning. She had no younger siblings, so she had no one to look up to or to teach to. During her school years, she was an average student who sort of just went with the flow and got average grades when she wanted to. I say "when she wanted to" because she was intelligent but also lazy at times. She was never involved in any extracurricular activities, no clubs or team sports. She was a loaner who kept to herself and liked it that way. Her high school was all black, and she was surrounded by the same ethnic group all day in school and her neighborhood. She saw what her neighborhood was like and wanted something better for herself and she figured that college was the key to getting her where she wanted to be.