If Someone Would Have Told Me Before Move In Day…
Rushing my senior year, I couldn’t wait to start college. On May 30th 2015, I walked across the stage graduating from high school anticipating this new journey. Looking forward to college parties, new faces, and new opportunities I could hardly sleep. After getting settled into my dorm, I began to tour my new home. Excited young men and women crowded my vision, and I knew we all had one thing in common: we were entering into a whole new world in which we knew nothing about. If only there was someone who could have prepared us for the long lines in the financial aid office, or how we would grow tired of the cafeteria food, or even how to dress for Texas’ bipolar weather. No one informed us on how to survive.
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My mom woke me up for school almost every day throughout my four years of high school. Transitioning from having someone wake me up at the same time every single day to having to wake myself up was a huge struggle for me. Knowing that I was finally independent and on my own I knew I had to figure something out to wake myself up so I could stay up and refrain from going back to sleep after pressing snooze. My advice on waking up is to just set multiple alarms. For example, if your schedule tells you that you have a class at nine, best thing to do would be to set an alarm at 7:50, another at 8:20 and another at 8:40 to ensure that you are out of the house and on the way to class on time. According to the article “College Resolutions: How to Wake up Early for Class” by Sivani it states “Go to bed at a consistent time. Waking up in the morning actually starts the night before. Going to bed at a consistent time at a normal hour will help you immensely.” This means if you are trying to wake up on time for your morning classes then you definitely shouldn’t be staying out all night, get enough sleep so you won’t wake up
When entering college, there are many things to consider. Having to make such important life decisions can be very overwhelming for a high school senior. Not only are teenagers expected to make a decision on where they are going to potentially be spending the next four years, but they are also deciding who and how that is going to look like. In the article “A college education should include rooming with a stranger,” Ann Altman uses emotional diction to persuade readers to consider what their living conditions will be like their first year of college.
Starting college as a Freshman is exciting; it is also unnerving. The comfort of everything I know is going to disappear and it will be time to grow up and face reality. However, reality isn’t doomed to be negative if I prepare for my future and
General Description of the Book. This book contains stories and experiences shared by different college students from different institutions in America. This narrates the situations they have gone throughout their pursuit for their educational attainment and as well as their voyage in achieving their dreams in life. They were surrounded by different voices from different people; their challenge is that whose voice they will listen too in times of difficulties.
Each year of my undergraduate studies I remember stepping foot on campus for the first day of class. The heat was always unbearable and most buildings lacked air conditioning, yet all of the students seemed happy and excited for the year ahead. For three years I found myself in the same boat; however, as I stepped foot on campus my senior year I was stricken with a sense of fear. Graduation was quickly approaching and I still didn’t know what is was I wanted to do in life.
When Kanis Grady graduated from high school, she was told she will have tremendous fun and gain experience with many different people and at various places while in college. Those who gave her this insight on the college experience neglected to tell her that life gets more challenging than high school. In high school, Kanis Grady knew her surroundings, family was there to help her, and the work load was not as challenging as it is now. Kanis Grady feels that her college life is nothing similar to high school life, the food, the environment, and the work load is difficult. The transition from high school to college is a major adjustment.
College is a frightening journey that most young adults will go through, but, will they make it to the closing? To ensure that you will continue through your life as a college student with no trouble, Dr. Hansen founder of Quintessential Careers has made an article of 25 Tips to Help You Survive Your Freshman Year. “one in every four college students leaves before completing their sophomore year — and nearly half of all freshmen will either drop out before obtaining a degree or complete their college education elsewhere.” Dr. Hansen introduced these tips knowing that they would be essential to a student struggling on campus. The tips given will inform any person on how to have a balanced lifestyle between enjoying ones self and education. Not
College campuses are swarming with “new adults”, most of whom are still in their teens and are often living on their own for the very first time. They are learning how to make decisions for themselves and are figuring out who they want to become. College is designed to help them in this process. It allows them to mature and grow through experiences and trial and error. High stress, threat to one’s previous identity through failures, and
The transition from high school to college is a dynamic time in one’s life that parallels the change from childhood to adulthood. Both of these changes are dramatic and, as a result, feelings are difficult to put down into words. A messy combination of emotions fills the heart, surfacing in strange ways. Confident high school seniors go right back to the bottom of the chain when entering college as freshmen. These students start all over, just like entering grade school or high school for the first time. The move up from high school to college signals the switch from dependence to self-sufficiency. From a personal point of view, going through the experience of graduating high school and transferring to a residential college campus at STLCOP, made me realize I was no longer a kid and capable of making my own decisions.
For most, growing up is an exciting time. The feeling of moving along from childhood to adulthood is often indescribable. Graduating appears to be one of the most wonderful and scary paths on the road to adulthood. According to most graduates, the best time of your life comes after high school. We are given the chance to discover and learn more about who we are in the world. For students enrolled at the abundance of universities and colleges spread across the nation, campus life marks an era of extraordinary opportunities. Unfortunately, this also creates a gap for unique risk. Almost all people are away from home for the first time and are adjusting to the to life away from the protection of their parent’s home. Often times, this could be
Opposed to the college life depicted on television, college is not about partying and being independent. Students are tossed into reality, responsibilities and uncertainty. From piles homework assignments to the possibility of not having a meal, college life contains stress and concern. On a macro level, each student deals with some of the same problems and these should be fixed. College students face high tuition costs, limited job opportunities and uncertain campus security. Each of these issues can be corrected by making college affordable, raising the minimum wage to satisfy current living expenses and regulating rules on gun control.
Today, a four-year college education is often considered the climax in one’s life and suggests a future full of opportunity. As early as elementary school, teachers begin preparing their students for middle school. Those middle schoolers are then prepared for high school, and finally high schoolers are coerced down the track that will best prepare them for college—mainly admission into college. Society, teens especially, has become brainwashed into believing that this single word, “college,” will distinguish the white collars from the blue collars. They believe this word represents the division between a life of ease or angst, success or failure, and wealth or poverty. Top tier schools represent the utmost of this college opportunity. However,
I contest with teary eyes that the people remind me that adjusting to college life is the hardest part, are wrong: leaving is. But then, in a second or two, I remember at once the new things college will present me with: amazing thought-provoking lectures, labs where I can investigate hands on with technology I’ve lusted to use, enough clubs to fuel my every interest, and—of course—a new community. I already have an advantage:I will be well equipped with secrets from a land far, far—no farther...yes, all the way at the tip of the
When a High school student’s leave College headed away from his or her small town homes they often assume college is a vastly scary place with thousands of people, terrifyingly complex finals and days where you just wanted to give up and roll over. When comparing and contrasting often he or she thinks they will be overwhelmed with large lecture rooms having over 150 people they will never meet and get to know, they believe they will be stuck with cafeteria food, and have to deal with some of the same rule as they had in high school. Yet a student is sadly mistaken more than half the time, a small community college like Jones County College is just like a normal High school.
The transition from high school to college is not only an exciting and challenging time, but also a great milestone in one’s life. There are several differences between the lives of high school and college students. Some individuals will be able to jump right in and adjust to this change seamlessly, while others may take years to adapt, or never even grab hold of the whole college experience at all. High school and College are both educational grounds for a student to grow and enrich their lives with knowledge. Both are like puzzle pieces: on one side they fit together, but on the other side they are something completely
For many, after graduating high school the next big step is college. I never asked myself why or if I even wanted to. Yet, since I was not yet ready to join the work force, and didn’t want to disappoint my parents, I simply followed the path that I was supposed to take. For a while I had no direction, but through the loss of my high school English teacher and my dream of making my family proud, I discovered that college was the place I wanted and needed to be.