Lessons Learned In College

I felt anxious about attending RU. Now that I have been here a week I am feeling motivated. Living close to campus gives me the ability to be completely immersed in the college lifestle, therefore, allowing me to have the chance to join various clubs and the chance to use the many resources that will advance my academic career. Being able to join a club here at Rutgers will help me be able to feel like a Rutgers student. The amount of opportunities this school has is endless, and I plan on taking full advantage of such benefits.

I am thoroughly excited to possess the opportunity to go to my top school of choice, Norfolk State University! They make sure that they thoroughly prepare

Meeting new people with a common goals and interests will help me establish lifelong friendships that will be there for me when I am in need. Also, meeting people knowing that we are in it together will bring up our drive and motivation to work hard and succeed in life. I want to be a part of a campus with a great community and high involvement in activities.

While auditing courses for her own education and interest a professor realized that the students were relating to her as if she was a student. She was behaving as a student, asking questions, going regularly to class and doing the required readings and in turn the other students began sharing insights, gossip and opinions she would never hear as a professor. Rebekah Nathan (pseudonym assumed by the author, Cathy Small, for purposes of the book) recognized that “even after my fiftieth birthday, I could still be a student, and treated by other students as, more or less, a peer”(Nathan, 2005, para. 71). She decided use her sabbatical to study campus life through a student’s viewpoint, instead of the professor-student perspective.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has always been my number one choice for school. They offered so much to students such as myself. For example, they have over 100 clubs and a many fraternities. Before I came to NJIT, I attended Bayonne high school in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was an amazing experience, one that I would have no regrets repeating. It’s the largest high school in Bayonne, my graduating class was over 700 students and the school in general has 3000 students. Being so large it had many opportunities that other high schools wouldn’t have. It had a team for every sport that you’ve ever heard of, and 20 additional ones that no one knows about. In addition, Bayonne offered a myriad of AP classes to students who met certain requirements, thus giving many opportunities to high school students to get a taste of college-level classes. So even from before I entered into the campus on the first day NJIT was already different, however, it is not different in a bad way.

I graduate high school in early June, I plan on attending Radford University and I plan on studying nursing as my major. Radford University seems like a perfect fit for me. Most students find it hard to transition from high school going into college. Some people are practically an adult going off into this new chapter in their lives and you have to face all that alone. Students approaching this time in their lives becoming a young adults have to figure out how you’re going to balance this new chapter of your life.

The socials provide great opportunities to meet a lot of people. I know at the socials in Lynch Hall, I am able to meet new people every time. I came to UNC Charlotte alone and did not know anyone. During the first week of school, Lynch Hall had an ice-cream social for the building. At the social, I was able to meet a lot of people. I laughed, ate, and had so much fun. Most of the friends I have now live down the hall from me. I would have never meet those friends without the ice-cream social Lynch Hall had. Socials prove that a student just does not have to sleep here, but have fun here

As a freshman at UNCW, I was starting out in a new place for the very first time, away from my friends and family. So many different thoughts were running through my mind like “How do I make friends.” Maybe I could join different clubs and organizations around campus. I found myself wanting sign up for sorority recruitment, to see what Greek life was about here at UNCW.

High school. This one word can mean either the best days of your life, or the worst. It depends on how you dealt with the obstacles thrown at you. During the past few years of high school, I can honestly say that I have changed a lot, not just physically, but mentally I have becomes strong enough to ( ).In my experience, these circumstances shaped me into the positive and intelligent individual I am today.

Ms. Bearden is an English teacher and co-founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia where she has taught in grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade. In her book, Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, she discusses about her life of teaching a majority of African American scholars and how they completely improved her life. Each chapter is labeled carefully and precisely to give meaning in the classroom setting. The chapters that caught my attention most were called Magic, Recovery, and Tenacity.

I want to continue that feeling of being more socially engaged in college. In one of those clubs, the National Honor Society I was surrounded by individuals that care about the environment and helping others in the community like the homeless. I want to continue this at FIU, at orientation I found out about a really interesting program that has similar goals, which I am thinking of joining. This relates to the mantras I think relate to my transition to college, for one I am going out of my comfort zone by joining my first college club and I’ll be surrounding myself with people that would help me grow. In doing so, I feel like I would become a better person in a social sense because I`ll be able to interact with people without being shy.

NJIT is a prior choice of mine to attend. New Jersey Institute of Technology appeals me the most for the programs, classes, and aides they offer to the students. Attending the open-house for the first time I had no regrets at all, instead it was spectacular. The environment and atmosphere there truly grand. From this exposure NJIT is a top choice for it truly gave me goal and for what I can give as a pupil. My gifts and talents will be put into a great aspect in class and as a student for

Waiting in line to go through customs I didn 't want to think about all all the things I would have to do. Support myself financially, find a place to live, figure out how to start college. It all seemed overwhelming. I immigrated on my own to US when I was seventeen. The transition was difficult, and I considered returning back to India. Even though it would have been easier to return, staying provided better opportunities. As I grappled with my new environment and struggled to acclimate. Two experiences played a pivotal role in shaping my character. First, the support I received from family and friends. The second, my work with adolescent youth. Through these I understood the importance of support and the joy of providing it. The

As the year draws to a close, I reflect on what I have accomplished in my first semester of college. Not only have I grown as a writer but also as a person. This year was full of changes but I am glad that I remained steadfast in my beliefs and skills. While I learned things about myself in this course I also gained important writing and research skills.

This course like my entire first semester of university have provided me with both many challenges as well as taught me many lessons not only for my university career, but for the rest of my life. As I reflect back on the semester, I recall telling myself at least once a week that I wanted to drop out of school, followed by many breakdowns, crying fits and calling defeat. The past few months, haven’t been at all easy for me, I have thought many times I wasn’t intelligent enough to be in university, I was disappointed with some of the grades I received and I was constantly engulfed in a swarm of stress. Despite all these tough times, I have had many good one’s as well, I have made new friends which are now integral to my everyday life and I have enhanced my knowledge to a new degree. Some of the many lessons that I’ve already learned in my short university experience include how to manage my time, the importance of meeting deadlines as well as the continuous struggle of balancing the various different facets of life.