Atsuko Okatsuka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was like, okay, we're, yeah.
Someone needs to get us around.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is very little money.
Very little money.
But I was stoked to that.
I was like, oh, I can finally do the things.
I'd seen a lot of, all my classmates do.
Like get the, you know, drive or working.
And then also college too.
I didn't know what would happen with college when I found out I was undocumented.
I was like, I think you need a social security number to go.
And so it was just kind of very lucky that at, you know, around the time you're supposed to start applying, I got... You got your green card.
Yeah, right.
I applied to all the UCs.
I had really bad grades.
I wasn't a good student.
So, yeah, I applied to everything, but got into two schools, UC Riverside and like UC, I forget the last, Merced or something.