My College Experience : My Personal Experience In My Life

With the help of my parents and an academic support team, I was able to start turning in my missing assignments and raising grades. When it got extremely close to finals figured out that my finals were my chance to my grade up since they were such a significant grade. So I took mass amounts of my time to study and prepare for these

The month after graduating from high school I watched six seasons of the CBS show “Survivor”. When my dad insisted I socialize with my friends, I invited them over and we all watched “Survivor” together. I was obsessed. Winning the game involves a certain finesse that changed from season to season, yet the key elements remained consistent. This show offered a new perspective on how to approach and adapt to challenges.

My community college experience has been rigorous but highly rewarding. As an international student, it was like stepping from a hill to a mountain looking out at the horizon. The sheer breadth and depth of the world are mesmerizing. I have entered into a leadership role like Phi Theta Kappa and Student Government Association (SGA), that has helped me grow as a person.

The biggest challenge I had to overcome this semester was learning to adapt to the late night study sessions and bounteous hours of writing. As well as having to make a series of personal adjustments and sacrifices in order to attend my classes. However I think that this is a challenge in which I will not have to struggle much next semester, being that I have already began to adjust and get adapt to these late hours, and long days.

My life has been like a dark maze. I have absolutely no idea what's around the next corner. Each path I've taken has lead me to one of two things. Something fantastic that I'll enjoy and remember or something I wished never happened that I can forget. That's why I'm scared to take the next step because I don't know what will happen to me. However a few years ago I learned to give to give each step a chance, no matter how far back that step will take me. Being a senior this year a cartoon word has been shoved in my face a hundred times a week. That word is college. Just getting into college is a challenge. Thinking about all my test scores, GPA, applications is enough to give me a migraine. If just getting into a good college is this hard, I

When I first was first beginning to work on this project, I was overwhelmed by the amount of work that was needed to complete it. I was worried I would be unable to balance the workload from the project with my other classes. I had no previous experience doing something like this, so I wasn't sure what to expect. To combat the large workload, I planned on evenly spacing the work out throughout the semester. I was able to stick with the plan at first, but as the semester went on a slowly got more and more behind. As the due date approached, I rescheduled the work I had left. I made a strong effort to stick to this schedule so I wouldn't have to do all the work the night before the project was due. Not putting everything off until the last night greatly reduced the amount of stress that could

The advice that changed my life was from my boss. I had been out of high school a couple of years, and, at the time, was working full time at a store in the mall. College had always been on the horizon for me, just barely out of reach. However, when I start to think back, I see what little effort I put in to try to reach college. Every time someone asked if I planned on going, I would say yes, I just needed to save up the money, brush up on a few subjects, and get my life in order. In truth though, I was just scared of going back to school. I had not done well in high school and had in fact dropped out. So, even if I had wanted to go to school I would need to take the GED test, and that was something I was not prepared to do. So month after

Since I was so young I was worried that I wasn’t ready to take on such a big challenge, but graduating early was the better of the two choices I have ever made. I had to decide on this my sophomore year, which at age fifteen wasn’t an ideal choice to make at the time. There were many considerations I had to contemplate about: my high school career in basketball, college, and leaving my friends.

As each day comes closer to the start of college, the question becomes how will I survive the 4 years of college? How will I avoid being part of those who drop out? How will I pay my gap? How will I pay my college books, fees, etc.

The biggest problem I’m having trouble with is time management due to my procrastination issue. With it being my first year it’ s hard concentrating on all the work I received with everything going on, on campus. High school teaches

I have been in college for two years now, and I have been to two colleges. For my first semester of freshman year, I attended a college in North Carolina. I am not giving out the name of the college for obvious reasons but it was my dream school. Once I got there, I soon realized that being 19 hours away from home was not for me. I left after only one semester and now I am almost half way through my third semester at a community college in my town. In the fall, I will be transferring AGAIN to another four-year college, but this time it is only one hour away…18 hours closer than the first college I went to! Okay, okay…back on track. Although I had some awful times at the college in N.C., I did though, meet a wonderful human being. My

My decision to start college can't be summed up in a few words or even a few experiences.

College is a great opportunity that I am blessed to be going through today. I see it as an opportunity to grow as a person and set myself up for the future I want. The success I have in the future will be greatly affected by how I do in college.

Life experiences that have impacted my path to higher education have been the lack of stability in my life. Ever since I was two months old I have frequently moved house, due to my parents' career choice of custom home construction. Our family had to travel where the need for new houses and company buildings were high. When my parents initiated their company, they could not afford to build new houses while simultaneously owning their own house to live in and not sell. The process every year for about ten years was to buy a house that possessed a high real-estate selling potential and move in.

Some individuals shine under stress while other individual fail at it. The most stressful time I underwent during my undergrad was when I found out that the master’s program that I wanted to attend was asking for a higher grade point average than what I had. The business program that I wanted to attend was asking for a minimum of 3.20 grade point average in order to be able to get into the program. During the first two years of my education I did not take school seriously and because of that it effected my overcall grade point average however, I found out that the master program is only looking at the last ninety units of your undergrad. I felt relieved and quickly started counting up my overall grade point average not taking the first two years of school. I had a 2.70 grade point average counting only the last sixty units of my undergrad work. I was really upset because I had eight classes left (Thirty-two units) to take before graduation. I would have had to get really high grades in the winter quarter in order to get accepted into the program. The stress was overwhelming because I either got good grades or I would not continue my education. I worked forty plus hours a week and attend school fulltime getting nearly perfect grades seemed an impossible task to me. The stress of obtaining good grades during the upcoming quarter motivated me to reach new heights that I believed I could have never reach because I did not have enough time to focus on school.