Semester Reflection
College has always been a dream of mine. It was a dream to play football in college and attend college to better my future life. Throughout high school and even in middle school I heard stories about how hard college is and the slim chances of graduating. Then you get to your senior year of high school, where every one of your teachers are telling you that you won’t have any help in college and that you’re going to be on your own. Also, that professors are not going to care about you if you’re struggling, so do not depend on extra credit they said. These statements made attending college scary and very nerve racking for me. The first day of classes I was a nervous wreck. I had many emotions going on and was just thinking about all the negative comments about college my teachers said. The first week of classes, my entire perception of college changed. I knew that I was going to be able to stay on top of my studies and commit to doing homework as college wasn’t going to be so bad after all. I guess college has changed over time or it is different at smaller colleges because all those statements were false to me.
So far, my PDP 150 class has been very helpful. The class has made it easier on me to adapt to college and deal with many different situations. I like that students got to pick what theme they wanted the PDP-150 class based around, so that we would enjoy it. Dr. Ybarra who is my PDP-150 class professor has been very helpful in anything that I do
Coming to college for me was absolutely terrifying. I am a very independent person so it was not all that difficult to leave behind my family and I knew that I would talk to them all the time. Coming to a state I have never been to before with no one I know nearby was definitely a huge challenge. I am a very social person I love people and enjoy socializing but I have had a group of the same close friends around me since kindergarten so it was really hard to leave them behind. Another challenge for me is learning what switching from a high school institution to a college institution truly is. Even though I’m very independent and honestly did pretty much whatever I wanted my senior year of high school, it is still the most
You also expect to be able to accomplish your work quickly and with minimal stress, leaving more time to work and spend with your family. You expect to be able to do what you did in high school and still pass. However college, by far, is nowhere as easy as most anticipate. You have to study, unlike high school, where you could float on by with A's by seldomly attending class. College is harder than high school and therefore
The book The Prince of Los Cocuyos can relate to my transition into college. The first time Richard Blanco came to America and felt out of place. College is all about experinces and getting to know yourself and learning who you really are. It is hard leaving high school and having to transition to college. Being used to teachers reminding you about assingments to now going online and having to remind yourself. As I begin to start my college experience I thought college would be easier no one telling you what you can and cant do, but its really not easier it might honestly be harder. Having to do so many assignments all at once. I feel like college is all about self motivation and being able to push yourself to work hard. Which I actually am
Endless studying, expensive tutors, exhausting all-nighters, the common theme behind these: high school, or more importantly, graduation (SP #7). While this may not resonate with 100% of all high school students, for the majority of the student population this a mutual objective. Especially in a school like Ravenscroft located in Raleigh, NC, a college preparatory school that offers a high-level of honors and AP classes to ensure success for the 100 percent of graduates who typically pursue education beyond the secondary level (Private). A student there or anywhere else may devote four plus years to building up a student that colleges will
There are some people who think college is a waste of time. Then there are others who would debate that opinion and say college is an essential key to life. With a college education, I would have a better opportunity at making my life a lot better. I will be giving myself the opportunity live above the poverty level of today and I will be giving myself a chance at middle-class living. College can be extremely tough if I am not disciplined but it is well worth it. Going to college gives me the advantage of a better education at something that I love, growth in my career, achieve independence and great aspect of networking.
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After graduating high school, no one prepares you for college. Most kids when they are finished with high school don’t even fantasize about going back to school. I have always wanted to go to college ever since I was a young kid. I also had dreams of myself going to college, but in my dreams, everything was picture perfect. In reality, college has been very challenging for me. No one tells you about the adjustments and complications that you would have to face to become a successful college student.
I don’t think the reality of college hit me until this year. It always seemed like an abstract idea rather than a reality but a reality it is. I know college isn’t necessary for a successful life, my dad has done just fine for example. But at the end of the day, college represents something more for me, something extra. The reason I want to be in college is simple, I want to better myself, dive deeper into learning and strive to exceed the expectations set out for me.
It became more than just a place to work towards, it was a place to work past. College was eating breakfast in the car on the way to school, and living in the library between classes and falling asleep in your car. It was actually doing a foreign ritual called studying and humbling myself enough to ask for help. It wasn’t the fun, simplistic challenge that I had expected it would be, and quite frankly, college beat my ass until
I struggled with the idea of college from the beginning, even more so when it actually came down to picking one and signing the paperwork. I applied to just three schools: Grand View University, University of Northern Iowa, and Wartburg College. I worried that my horizons were limited because some of my peers seemed to spend every spare moment filling out applications for colleges and scholarships. I knew not what I wanted to do or how well I would transition from high school to college and independent living.
Everyone has or should have an ideal; something which he can look forward to, of which he may dream, and for which he may strive. In our colleges we come across many defects or limitations. We often discuss these among ourselves. And in course of these discussions, and as a result of them, we come to cherish a vague notion of what would be an ideal college, at last, what we would regard as an ideal. Here of course I speak mostly for myself.
At some point, someone has said that high school will be the best four years of their lives and college gets even better. So with that idea in people’s heads, they come up with their ideal image of the college. They start planning the perfect scenario of what college they will go to and what their roommate will be like. They often try to compare an unrealistic image and turn it into a realistic image, but they are unlike in many ways. Once students step onto the college campus, they will soon face what it is actually like to be in college.When people understand that college is not the perfect movie scene, then they will take advantage of expanding and furthering their education seriously. Going to college is a whole different experience and there is a lot more to it such as the rigorous classes and overwhelming school work, being more independent, and forming new bonds with others.
College is something I have always been confused about, I’ve been told growing up that I HAVE to go to college but I never knew what I wanted to go for. Knowing that I was going to go to college no matter what actually made me not think about it as much. I've always had the mindset of just worrying about college when I actually get there. When it was time for me to go to college I was still confused on how I wanted to go about it, I didn't know what I wanted to do at all so I had very little expectations for it. Being so confused about something makes me not know what to expect and that's how I felt about college. However i've always had two main expectations that never went away and I still expect from attending college, no matter what I do or where I go. Those two expectations are to find out what career I want and graduate with a degree for that career, and secondly to gain a mass amount of knowledge by the time i'm done with it all and graduated.
I always saw college as a fresh start. A way of changing who you are from who you were in high school. From what I heard from my older family members, about college, made me think college is a place to be free and do whatever you want. This had made me excited for college. I was being told all this great stuff about college, but I was barely starting high school. I thought to myself, I could still change who I am in. I was terribly wrong about that. Here is the difference between high school and college, in high school you are still in the same hometown (if you do not move) so everyone still knows who you were before you got to high school and most students are not mature yet to handle other people changing; in college you practically do not know anyone so if you totally changed it would not faze anyone, especially since they are mature adults and do not care what you do because they are at school by their own choice to get a higher level of education.
My pilot G-2 pen etches my name on the paper, and I realize the actual meaning of it beyond my signature on a line. I am leaving, taking all the memories and experiences I’ve had in Tampa, putting a ribbon on them, and going off on my next journey. For a young adventurous person like myself, it excites me, but all of us freshmen recognizes the nervous feeling we faced coming to college. However, humans have a natural ability of making whatever place they’re home. I had learned that in my life already, in this process I learned to listen to what was best for me. Starting as a high school senior in the swamps of Florida and ending up in a place just west of the Smoky Mountains has been quite the transformation. How did it happen?