First Day At College Essay

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    My first day of college was kind of a blur but it was most certainly a very important one. I spent my first semester of college at Central Michigan University, I arrived on the Friday before classes started which is commonly known as “Welcome Weekend” around campus. Coming into it I really didn’t know what to expect from college, I was really nervous about meeting my roommates and having to communicate with them. I had been friends with the same 6 people for the past 5 years and moving on into a

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    The first ten days of college are some other experience. When I arrived on campus for the Eagle Incentive Program it was in the high nighties with some humidity. Moving in wasn’t that bad, it was just extremely hot. I was breaking a sweat walking up and down the Southern Pines stairs. The next day was time to say goodbye to my family. After giving my mom a big warm hug and a kiss goodbye, seeing them leave was a weird feeling. As I walked up the stairs to head back in my room the feeling really crossed

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    It was my first day attending Texas A&M University. Feling anticipation and eagerness, I did not knowing what I should expect from college in the coming years. My first day of college began. At the time, I was unaware that only two thousand people in the University called themselves “Cadets” and that their journey is difficult yet rewarding. I was forced into this organization by my parents and their unyielding and resolute decision to have me develop my social and academic skills here. The Corps

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    It’s my first day on a college campus as I walk through the halls with my junior high classmates. Everybody is slightly nervous as we are about to see our first cadaver. Our anatomy teacher had some connections at SLU and was able convince them to let us view a cadaver hoping to get us interested in a medical career. We walk into the room as the smell of preservatives overcomes us. A medical student separates us into groups and assigns us a cadaver. Over the next hour we all see things we have only

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    It was Tuesday, September 8th and it was the first day of college class. It was a long Labor Day weekend and on the first day I had writing on my schedule. My writing skills are not that great but I was looking forward to improve my skills. Writing was the last class of my day and I was running late. I had to rush to north quad all the way from south quad, it seemed far away because I didn’t know my way around campus. As I got there, I sat down and our teacher discusses the basics of what writing

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    It was a warm and sunny day, I was able to sleep until eleven o’clock in the mooring. I woke up got dressed and attended my first college class. Walking across campus, I saw familiar faces from freshman orientation back in June. I felt comfortable starting my first day of college. I told myself that this was a new chapter in my life, and I wanted to make something special of it. I wanted to make a difference. My number one goal was to get myself known. I made so many friends by just simply making

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    It 's the first day of the college semester for him again. As he walks into the English Comp. classroom, he feels a bit anxiac over not knowing what to expect. This already feels like a familiar scenario. The fact that he 's not the biggest people-person on the planet, coupled with a social disorder, doesn 't help the uncertainty, either. The class begins smoothly enough, but the feelings start to settle in once again. A little squirm and foot tap might draw even the slightest bit of attention. Quit

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    On the first day walking in that door feeling: scared, nerviness, and open-minded. On my first day at George Brown College walking with confident and excited in the program Career and Work Counselling. The program I always dreamed of being in. One of my classes I have got is called Overview of Career and Work Counselling. Overview of Career and Work Counselling, what it is about, what are we going to learn about and how is this class going to help us in the field as a counsellor? This class teaches

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    sort of day. Andrew had lived through a lot of days. The first kind he could remember was, predictably, painful, as the first memory he could call to mind was being beaten by one of his first foster fathers. He had been on the cusp of three years old, maybe a little older. This kind of day was the kind that started off with pain and ended with a restless but dreamless sleep, with a lot of wondering what he had done wrong and dazed sobbing in between. Looking back, Andrew wondered if those days had been

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    The First day The first day of a job isn’t the best for everybody. Usually on my first day of every job I get a tour and I get more information about the place I’m working at. They usually make me meet different people and start make new friend, but for Mariano's it was different. For these type of reasons that’s why the first day of the job isn’t the best because of the position, my coworkers, and pushing myself. First of all, I was 15 years old, and I finally found a job at Mariano's

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