The first first day of fall semester for a university freshman is often stressful. Not for Vanessa Menera, an 18-year-old who\u2019s the first in her family to attend college.<\/p>\n
Last year, she arrived 15 minutes early to her first fall class with an internship and campus job already in tow, plus a mental map of Cal State University Dominguez Hills, a sprawling, nearly 350-acre institution in the Los Angeles area\u2019s South Bay.<\/p>\n
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