College Admissions Essay: My First Year At Penn

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

I know that many students can identify to what I went through my first year and it would mean so much to me to reach out to those students afraid of what to expect and help them ease into this new chapter of their life. I will also offer an experience that many college students struggled with, which is learning to balance your overall health and well-being with a whole new load of responsibilities and opportunities. I will certainly never leave a student feeling alone because after attending orientation, every new student could say they already have one friend at Carolina: Kate

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.

“As many as one in three first-year students won't make it back for sophomore year” (“Freshmen retention rate”). It just so happened that I followed that statistic. Many colleges do not care much if students drop out or flunk out once their tuition checks have been cashed (Los Angeles Times).Growing up in a very strict household and attending private Catholic school, I was ready to spread my wings and fly. I was looking forward to that independence, my own rules and living on my own. I was enthusiastic to get started on my college journey. In my mind, I was about to live the dream. I would experience my own place to live, no rules, and get to hang out with friends! Oh, and college, too. I was not prepared to be so distracted

Before I came to college, I had a preconception of what and how everything would be. Because Kent wasn’t my first choice and the first time I actually visited was during the summer at Destination Kent State, I wasn’t very sure if I would like it here. Also, I simply didn’t want to go to the same college where my sister graduated and ironically met her husband! Even though I wasn’t sure of anything, I still wanted to accomplish many things here at Kent State University. Because I let anxiety get the best of me during high school, I wanted to get involved in many student organizations and become active outside of academics. I wanted to meet new people, make long-lasting friendships and get out of my comfort zone because I didn’t have many

The beginning of my college experience was as typical as any other: I missed my family, friends, and home. Being uprooted from familiar soil and forced to settle in a garden teeming with (obnoxious) roommates, communal

The best feature I admire in Penn University is the diversity. It is especially important as I am an international student who devoted to travelling. In our world, making the connections is a crucial part of the success. I can never predict to what will I be faced to and which people will foster me along the way. I dream about having a business partner who will have completely different ideas and approaches than mine; that way we can share it and come to the understanding of the culminating way toward the goal. It is captivating to know how the people’s minds work. And I will be very thankful for the possibility to work or be surrounded by dynamic, motivated and communicative community. That is an ultimate inspiration. Working in a team nurtures

My Junior Year of high school just recently started. I have learned so many different things while attending high school, and still have over a year to learn even more. As Matthew Kelly said, “whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future.” This means while I have done a lot in my past, I cannot change anything that has already happened, but I am able to change my future. One of the most important things that I am involved in right now is school. My first two years at CBHS were good, and I made decent grades. Some of the grades that I made I am not very happy with now but I cannot change that so I need to focus on my grades right now because those are the ones I can change.

We can all recall that time between graduating high school and beginning our freshman year of college. For many people, myself included, going to college meant a chance to finally escape that small town that we called home. The summer began to come to a close, and we could hardly contain our excitement to finally start our new adventure. College began, classes and homework took over our lives, and we made new friends and experienced many memories with them. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, right? While most of my newfound classmates opted to go back to their home towns for the summer, I've decided to stay in my cozy college town, much to my parents disdain. It is wonderful, yet bittersweet to not have to go back to that boring

Beginning college is like being reborn into the world. You begin your first day with a blank slate, and a thousand fears to go with it. Last year, I started my new life at Saginaw Valley State University. As a fresh graduate of New Lothrop High School, I had no idea what to expect from the world past the cornfields that used to surround me everyday at school. With a deep breath, I gathered everything I learned from my time at New Lothrop and jumped into my new world. My past lessons of leadership, responsibility and dedication prepared me for college, but I still have many more to learn.

If someone asked me where I am going to be in ten years, this would be my answer. I will have a great, high-paying job, and beautiful wife and family, and a nice sports car parked in front of my lovely house. When I look into the future, I see myself being successful and happy. Even though I always pictured myself this way, I never worried too much about how I would get there. I feel the Suffolk University can lay the groundwork for making these dreams into reality.

My first day at Wayne State University was one of the toughest, yet most exciting challenges I had ever faced in my life. Although it did not happen out of the blue, it was still as nerve-racking as learning to drive a car for the first time ever. As a high school senior, I always thought of myself as the smartest kid in my class. However, entering college as a freshman made me think that everyone was more intelligent and mature than me; I felt lost. I used to have such feelings when I started as a freshman in high school, so I already had an idea on how to deal with those feelings; I simply had to realize that every other freshman was just as nervous as I was and that I had to go with the flow and do my best just like everyone else.

Sitting in class for the first time, it was half of what I expected. I expected to sit by people I didn’t know, learn about old things in new lights, and writing a lot of papers. What I didn’t expect was me hating college. I am not as creative as some teaches would like, but that isn’t my personality, and I dint want it to be either. I fully expected college to try and morph me into a perfect little student that I knew I wasn’t. College so far to me hasn’t been fun and I will treat it like Wal-Mart. When I say that, I mean that I will get in and get out as fast as possible. If I pick up stuff along the way then alright, but if I don’t, then it won’t kill me.

Throughout my lifetime I have listened to people reflect back on their college experiences and explain how college is supposed to be “the best experience of your life.” The summer after my senior year I use to try and imagine what my first semester was going to be like based on what I had heard people talk about in the past. After my first semester at NC State I realized that I couldn’t fully understand what college was like until I experienced it for myself. My first couple of weeks at Ohio State was rough and really tested my strength (mental and physical). I faced challenges and obstacles that I had never heard about in those past college experience conversations. All of a sudden there was no one to get me out of

And it’s an experience that I offer to current college freshmen to learn from. But, even more valuable than my lessons learned, is your own experience. I want to lock down and be completely focused on school and get the grades I want. College is way more enjoyable when you are getting good grades. At one point during my first semester my grades weren’t too good, and I wasn’t enjoying college. I was always stressed out and worrying constantly. Every time I went to sleep I would worry, and it really affected me. Now, I started the semester off strong and I’m really enjoying college and I have no worries in the back of my mind Everyone has a different adjustment to college. Maybe you’re the one who can and will hit the ground running. Or maybe you’re like me, and you just need to learn to be patient. So, even if you feel like you’re not getting what you want out of college, just realize that it is an experience for you to learn and grow from. Because this is just the