Personal Narrative: My Four Year College

And to become a leader, I had to learn how, so I enroll in college to get a

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.

am writing to you to inform you about my progress at City College. City College has become my second house, and I can say I have been taking advantage of this great new college experience. This past semester was very successful, and interesting; I took four classes which I passed with A’s. Even though I took only four classes, at the beginning it was very difficult to adapt to the big classes with hundreds of students, and long hours of study in order to past tests with good grades. However, all the efforts made this semester helped me to discover new passions on me that did not exist before.

I am attending college, so that I will be able to learn more about my major and also to explore my options. While in high school, I had many reasons and people that motivated me to enroll into college, including my mom, my guidance counselors, and research on what I want to be later on in life. Although I was already going to apply for college, I heard a lot of good things about it from a few of my friends, on how college really makes you a stronger and more independent person. In the past few years, I’ve met quite a few people who have graduated high school and decided not to attend any college, and sooner or later I hear about how upset they are that they did not attend and how they have no idea what to do with their life. I did not want

Coming from a relatively small high school, I wanted to go to a moderately sized college that retained an atmosphere of school pride. At Washington College, I’ll be in a supportive environment where I can take advantage of various opportunities to gain experience and become actively involved.

During my last few weeks in high school I was blessed with getting accepted into all four of my college choices including Sam Houston State University, Baylor College, Texas A&M Commerce, and Stephen F. Austin University. While touring schools and receiving financial aid packages I immediately turned down Texas A&M commerce and Baylor College. This of course left me with rival schools to choose between. After having the chance to tour Sam Houston I knew it was the school for me! The campus was beautiful and affordable, everyone I had spoken with was kind and knowledgeable, and I loved the fact that there was a wide variety of STEM majors I could choose between. I expected to graduate with my first degree in Health Sciences and go to medical

As the letters and emails flooded in from colleges and universities across the United States, it seemed like an overwhelming task to choose just one. Selecting aspects of each college and reassembling them, I found myself crafting an idealization of my perfect institution. In my mind, this perfect college was a place of rigorous coursework and extensive academic opportunities. Additionally, this school was an incredibly diverse community of different social, cultural, and intellectual perspectives - thus challenging me to think beyond the dogma of my own upbringing. Furthermore, it was a  liberal-arts college where I could gain the holistic, interdisciplinary education to apply my studies of chemistry to the interconnected modern world, and

I’ll admit that UNLV was not my first choice of colleges. Actually, I didn’t even apply when I was searching for a college to transfer to last year. I planned to escape Las Vegas (for the third time) and head to the east coast. I was offered a scholarship worth nearly $40,000 a year at Warren Wilson College. A small, private, liberal arts college and working farm tucked against a river bed in the mountains of North Carolina just outside Asheville. I know, it sounds idyllic. Choosing not to take that opportunity, for various and sundry reasons, nearly broke my heart. So this fall, I enrolled myself in just one class at CSN, one I didn’t actually need it, with a professor I admire and respect and whose lectures I enjoy simply because I love going to school. The idea of languishing for an entire semester seemed horrifying to me. I never thought I’d be the type of person to say that. I’m nearly 30 and a high school drop out, but choosing to go back to school was the single greatest decision I have ever made for myself. It has given me so much in terms of confidence, enrichment, and interpersonal skills, but more than that it’s given me a passion and a drive I didn’t know I had.

I remember the first day of my second year at Polk State College I was driving to the Lakeland campus, which was 32 minutes away from my house I was very excited because its new semester different campus and professors.

In the beginning of my college academic career I thought I had it figured out. Like most naive young adults, I soon came to the realize that I didn’t. My first year of college I decided to go away to upstate New York and study at a vocational school to be veterinary technician. I had always loved animals, and I thought that this was the career for me. I slowly came to realize that it wasn't. For some reason the career was not fulfilling, and I quickly lost interest. I struggled a lot balancing a rigorous course load my first year of college, and on top of that I was far away from any support from my family. After my first year had ended, I felt lost and had no idea what to do next. I knew that I wanted to study something in the health or sciences,

My first year at CCU will be a great time for me and a new learning experience one I never had

As senior year was quickly ending, choosing the right college seemed to be the only thing on my mind. It didn’t seem surreal to me yet that making this decision needed to be done so quickly. It was so overwhelming that it was hard to know where to begin. During my senior year, I wasn’t totally set on what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, there were so many different options to look at. After talking to many different employees about their job profession, nursing seemed to fit my needs of interest. Now my only set back was what college to choose. There were so many options, after touring a bunch of schools nothing felt right. It was so frustrating to me because I had no idea what to do at this point. After talking with a friend, she had me set on looking at a college called, PA College of Health Sciences.

Throughout all of my experiences, I have one in particular that I believe led me back to college,

Typically, your mailman is someone you do not know. Maybe you do know him because your dog barks uncontrollably when he is near your home, or they're just a nice person. That's no the case for me, my mailman sucks at his job. Robert (whose name has been changed for privacy) has been giving me the wrong mail for the past 3 years. This affects me greatly because now that I am in college It is crucial for me to receive mail on time when it comes to missing school documents and student loans. In the spring of 2015, I was applying for colleges. Naturally, you receive either an acceptance or rejection letter, I received neither. Why may you ask? Because my dear mailman Robert did not deliver it to the right location. I did not know I was accepted

My fall term at Florida Southwestern State College was surely an experience. I was capable to have a very successful term. I am hoping to keep using my experiences to improve and grow as a college student. The course that I took was a great value to me. It taught me some very important things. As my fall term of college is coming to an end, there has been a couple of feelings I have come to realize in the beginning of my term. My fall term life at college naturally generates excitement, nervousness, and stress. The most important main topics I learned in this course across the semester is money management, time management, and critical thinking skills.