Hi Everyone, my name is Vanessa Gonzalez and I am from Las Vegas, Nevada. I currently am a junior Civil Engineering major, Applied Mathematics minor and I am loving every minute of my major. I believe I couldn’t have picked a better university then LMU. This is my first semester taking a course in either Chicana or Women’s Studies. However I have an extreme interest in CHST 404 because not only will I learn about my heritage but the empowerment of women. I believe I don’t know enough about my Mexican heritage so I am glad that I am taking a course in correspondence, but the women’s studies is what I am most excited to learn about; their struggles, how they overcame, and how they got to where they are today. This is because I am a women studying in a male dominated field and I feel I can learn a lot from our history.