Q: What are you excited about this semester?

A: “For thousands of people, this is the moment that they made a decision to invest in their education that is going to lead to some tremendous places. Here at City College, we have a graduate who went to outer space. At the College of Continuing Education, one of our former culinary students is the lead pastry chef at the highest-rated Michelin restaurant in the entire West Coast, up in the northern part of the city. You can do extraordinary things. It takes that courage, optimism and commitment, and today that’s what’s happening these first couple weeks of the semester: the students showing up and making that investment in themselves.”