My First Year Of College

Have you ever wondered what you do every day mean something? Well, it does mean something. Whatever you are doing prior to today will relate to your future. When that happens, you will feel wonderful and proud to have learned and known that something. During my senior year of high school, I discovered everything I learned prior to that year would relate to my future. Writing essays every day helped me to be accustomed to writing. Reading something every day will helped me because that I would learn new information. Using the technologies like the computer is also a part of my meaning to everyday life. Lifelong Learning will always be part of our daily lives wherever we go.

May came around at long last. So did the end of my second semester of college at Florida Atlantic University. Not only did I survive my freshman year, I thrived, passing eight of my nine joint courses with A’s and getting A-minus on the other one. Just like “Neon” Leon shocked the departed Muhammad Ali in 1978, I defied my own expectations and those of a few among my closest friends and family. Did I soon spend the next few months indulging in summer merriment at the beach, getting my tan on while thirteen-year-old boys fawned over pictures of Selena Gomez? Nope. I took summer classes to keep my mind sharp and knock out a few of the requirements towards a degree which I’d earn three years later. One such class = a six-week crash course in public speaking. Everything went well until I got an assignment to create, practice, and deliver a three-to-five-minute speech involving someone who stood out. The possibilities overwhelmed me until I recalled someone with an outstanding life, hit him up on my cell, and talked to him in person one hot Saturday afternoon.

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I feel I didn’t give myself much time to figure out what I wanted to study, what I wanted to get out of college and rushed into it all too quickly. After a little time off I started the CISCO Certification program at Front Range Community College. I did very well in the program, but again was not very happy. I just could not see myself doing this work for the rest of my life. Once more I started to slack off and eventually stopped attending classes. Now here I was a young lady with such a bright future who was lost, confused and without a degree. I lived at home with my parents who were very supportive and found work in customer service. I struggled with my emotions, I felt like a failure and wished I would have completed something. A year later an old boyfriend got in touch with me, we spent some time together while he was in town on vacation from the military. We began dating and I eventually moved with him to California. I became pregnant with our son Clayton who is now 9 years old. Once he was born I knew I needed to go back to school and finish what I had started. I wanted to provide for my

During the semester in college, I have noticed that when I am overloaded with projects from my classes, I get stressed. At first, I just feel exhausted and anxious, but the problem is when I feel that way, my body begins reacting in a negative way. I get nauseas, stomach pain, and headaches and sometimes I feel dizzy. I think I get those symptoms because my body needs to release the stress somehow and is letting me know by giving me those discomforts. In order for me to feel better, I exercise and I relax at least a little bit.

The first year of college comes with many changes and challenges. These changes can include the food in the cafeteria, study habits, time management skills, and much more. Every student has to find their own way to handle the first year and determine what works best for them. For many the most essential change is living away from home. Campus life provides opportunities to become a part of a unique, diversified community. With these opportunities come challenges, such as having a roommate, being away from one’s parents, and determining self-limits.

In August 2015, I decided to take on my first job during my undergrad year. I worked as an office worker in Career Services at The University of Southern Mississippi. There, I performed clerical duties, maintained the filing system and assisted my coworkers as needed. During each semester the Career Service office would host a very successful career fair where hundreds of students would attend. During this time of business, I would assist Mrs. Kathy Killam with organizing and working the career fair. On most occasions, I would be able to work on school work while at work. However, during this time, the office was very busy. Therefore, I would have to prioritize my daily activities and complete assignments beforehand. This helped me learn time

During my first year at Seattle University I took an Introduction to Psychology course during winter quarter. My class was a Tuesday/Thursday class in the evening from 6-8. One of my first written assignments from this class was to do a methods comparison paper comparing qualitative and quantitative research methods. The directions for this assignment was to research and compare how these two methods can be used when looking at different research questions. The purpose of this assignment was to introduce us, the students, to different research techniques. By researching qualitative and quantitative methods we were shown how different questions were used for each method.

This framework might be relevant to the current study as students in their second year of college have many decisions to make. It is a time when these students are achieving competence and developing autonomy (Lemons & Richmond, 1987). Difficulties arise such as in choice of core curriculum courses or in maintaining interpersonal relationships which can precipitate crises of confidence (Boivin, Fountain, & Baylis, 2000). No longer having the support of “the fabricated society” (Margolis, 1976) of the first year experience, the second-year student must now more frequently rely on their own knowledge and intuition to make decisions. Second year students who have not yet decided on a major, and who have not confronted their situation, will find the process of choosing courses to be increasingly difficult (Gordon, 2010). Many of these students choose not to make decisions, and spend considerably less time doing academic activities (Gardner, 2000; Gohn, Swartz, & Donnelly, 2001; Graunke & Woosley, 2005). Gardner (2000) found that they tend to spend 25% of their time in self-gratifying activities. Time not being on their side, the undeclared second-year student faces challenges if they are not yet able nor willing to make a choice of major (Gordon, 2010). Using the theory of decision fatigue, the process of decision-making will take a toll on these students and soon they will give up (Baumeister & Tierney, 2011).

It was the year 2014 and summer had come to a close. My mind had suddenly switched from lounging on the warm, sandy beach and being gently kissed by sunshine to traumatizing, stressful high school. My first year of high school-what was it going to be like? Who was I going to be friends with? Am I going to get terrible grades? These thoughts flooded my mind and I was nervous. Thinking about being a highschooler made my throat close up and my heart beat faster. I was overcome with fear and excitement, going into the unknown and stepping into a freaky future. Soon the time had come to experience my classes that I had carefully selected earlier in the summer. I was especially excited, however, about my elective that I had chosen: classical drawing. Little did I realize that this decision would teach me perseverance and work ethic, while opening up a world of possibilities.

For many of us our anticipation of what the first day of college should be is less or more of what is expected considering that some of us have never been to college or are returning to college. The feelings that we have not only are similar to most but, are very surreal to a lot and can be overwhelming. Being that I am 42 years old, going back to school to finally accomplish something with meaning had me excited yet, questioning whether this was for me. To be on campus with the majority of the students half my age unfortunately made me feel vulnerable and old. I knew going back, there would be many changes especially with today’s technology and new updated curriculums. The feeling that you want to be ready for whatever comes your way was by far augmented and overtaking. Nevertheless, if goals and ambitions is what gives you the drive to better yourself no matter what age, the outcome will supersede any ill feeling you had in the beginning. A glimpse of my first day merely covers the surface of what I felt and experienced going back to school after twenty some years.

It was fall of my first-grade year of school. The group of approximately fifteen of us gathered together for Meghan Zimmerman’s birthday party at Cordova lanes Bowling Alley. Each of us were enthusiastically, waiting for our turn to bowl. No one may know if everyone’s failure to follow directions caused me to bust open my chin but it certainly was a factor. In the events that followed I learned that if one fails to follow instructions the consequences can fall on those who do obey.

Going into my first term of college I didn’t quite know what to expect, little did I know that it was going to be an eventful term. Heading into College Survival I didn’t know what exactly to expect and what exactly the course would cover. Here I am today finishing up my first term of college and I must say this class has definitely helped me out a lot, in ways which I didn’t think it could. The term “College Survival” fascinated me and made me want to learn more about it, so I ended up taking the course. This course has helped me in so many ways I don’t know where I can start by listing everything it’s helped me with.

This is it, the day I have been waiting for, move-in day of my senior year of college. After this year I will finally be graduating and get to move on to my career in the real world. I just have to get through this last year of college and one last year of living in a dorm. As a senior, I could have easily chosen to live off campus or in campus apartments, but a dorm was the choice that made the most sense for my busy schedule. Living in a dorm is not so bad though, and I am excited to decorate it and make it my own one last time. The dorm building I am living in is the building for the upperclassman and is very taken care of and upgraded compared to the underclassman dorm. Each room has sturdy wooden bed frames that make it comfortable

Hearing so many good things and bad things about college I didn’t know what to expect and look forward to. That change my junior year knowing different college come every year I didn’t really pay it any mind what college I wanted to go to until ODU, Virginia State University and Virginia Teach came. It was Virginia State first year of visiting out school and I knew I wanted to go there I start getting e excited for college that were talking about their experience at college and what to look for when we graduated if we decided to go to college. Eager to start a new chapter college sound like it could be a little nerve wrecking but I thought I could handle it.