Sonia Soto Major Academic Weaknesses

Sonia Soto Major at this point in her life had accomplished what most Latinos/ Latinas in her time could only dream of. Attending an Ivy League university was a huge deal and still is. She had not realized what an honor it was to be able to attend the prestigious Princeton University. Until it all made sense, it hit her, she would become a successful woman. But first she would encounter some academic weaknesses that she had found out about herself in order to get ahead and go on to wining some of the top awards at the university. It took her some time to figure out where these academic weaknesses originated from but in the end she figures it out and works hard on it.
“My very first midterm paper, for American history class, came back with a C” (168). Sonia had no clue as to why she would get such a low grade on a written assignment so she went on a search to find out why. Talking Peter Winn’s history class, she had found out that that her English needed some work and would continue dragging her down if she didn’t work on it. “My English was riddled with Spanish constructions and usage.” (170). One of Sonia biggest problems was her English because of her mother and the fact that she would speak mostly Spanish with her mother and father. I myself as a Spanish speaker can relate to her some time I also
For her senior thesis Sonia had chosen to write about Luis Munoz Marine “the island’s first governor to be elected rather than appointed by a U.S. president.” (210). She had learned about how different male and female roles were from Puerto Rico compare to the U.S. Woman would marry young at 13 or 14 years of age and in America the woman will wait until they are more established before they marry. The woman of Puerto Rico were expected to be the caregivers of their children, as where in America the woman were much more independent and much more educated. Sonia had learned how different these two world