The purpose of this study is to understand the personal impact of first-generation community college students of color have after taking a psychology course. This research study focused on studying groups of people who were excluded from past research and were missing during the literature gap. This qualitative study examined the general impact psychology has on students who took at least one psychology course in higher education. Some of the emergent themes included students applying the knowledge they learned from psychology to have a better understanding of people and their behaviors, being less biased against other people, knowing more about the behavior of children and parenting, and applying the knowledge of parenting to their own family, making better decisions as parents, having a more positive perspective in the world, forgiving their parents on the experiences from childhood, perception of teenagers being able to understand themselves with psychology, teenagers would be better prepared for college and adulthood, teenagers would be more empathetic towards people who are different.