Lessons Learned In College

New Jersey Institute of Technology has always been my number one choice for school. They offered so much to students such as myself. For example, they have over 100 clubs and a many fraternities. Before I came to NJIT, I attended Bayonne high school in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was an amazing experience, one that I would have no regrets repeating. It’s the largest high school in Bayonne, my graduating class was over 700 students and the school in general has 3000 students. Being so large it had many opportunities that other high schools wouldn’t have. It had a team for every sport that you’ve ever heard of, and 20 additional ones that no one knows about. In addition, Bayonne offered a myriad of AP classes to students who met certain requirements, thus giving many opportunities to high school students to get a taste of college-level classes. So even from before I entered into the campus on the first day NJIT was already different, however, it is not different in a bad way.

The socials provide great opportunities to meet a lot of people. I know at the socials in Lynch Hall, I am able to meet new people every time. I came to UNC Charlotte alone and did not know anyone. During the first week of school, Lynch Hall had an ice-cream social for the building. At the social, I was able to meet a lot of people. I laughed, ate, and had so much fun. Most of the friends I have now live down the hall from me. I would have never meet those friends without the ice-cream social Lynch Hall had. Socials prove that a student just does not have to sleep here, but have fun here

I graduate high school in early June, I plan on attending Radford University and I plan on studying nursing as my major. Radford University seems like a perfect fit for me. Most students find it hard to transition from high school going into college. Some people are practically an adult going off into this new chapter in their lives and you have to face all that alone. Students approaching this time in their lives becoming a young adults have to figure out how you’re going to balance this new chapter of your life.

Ms. Bearden is an English teacher and co-founder of the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia where she has taught in grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade. In her book, Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, she discusses about her life of teaching a majority of African American scholars and how they completely improved her life. Each chapter is labeled carefully and precisely to give meaning in the classroom setting. The chapters that caught my attention most were called Magic, Recovery, and Tenacity.

While auditing courses for her own education and interest a professor realized that the students were relating to her as if she was a student. She was behaving as a student, asking questions, going regularly to class and doing the required readings and in turn the other students began sharing insights, gossip and opinions she would never hear as a professor. Rebekah Nathan (pseudonym assumed by the author, Cathy Small, for purposes of the book) recognized that “even after my fiftieth birthday, I could still be a student, and treated by other students as, more or less, a peer”(Nathan, 2005, para. 71). She decided use her sabbatical to study campus life through a student’s viewpoint, instead of the professor-student perspective.

I want to continue that feeling of being more socially engaged in college. In one of those clubs, the National Honor Society I was surrounded by individuals that care about the environment and helping others in the community like the homeless. I want to continue this at FIU, at orientation I found out about a really interesting program that has similar goals, which I am thinking of joining. This relates to the mantras I think relate to my transition to college, for one I am going out of my comfort zone by joining my first college club and I’ll be surrounding myself with people that would help me grow. In doing so, I feel like I would become a better person in a social sense because I`ll be able to interact with people without being shy.

NJIT is a prior choice of mine to attend. New Jersey Institute of Technology appeals me the most for the programs, classes, and aides they offer to the students. Attending the open-house for the first time I had no regrets at all, instead it was spectacular. The environment and atmosphere there truly grand. From this exposure NJIT is a top choice for it truly gave me goal and for what I can give as a pupil. My gifts and talents will be put into a great aspect in class and as a student for

High school. This one word can mean either the best days of your life, or the worst. It depends on how you dealt with the obstacles thrown at you. During the past few years of high school, I can honestly say that I have changed a lot, not just physically, but mentally I have becomes strong enough to ( ).In my experience, these circumstances shaped me into the positive and intelligent individual I am today.

Meeting new people with a common goals and interests will help me establish lifelong friendships that will be there for me when I am in need. Also, meeting people knowing that we are in it together will bring up our drive and motivation to work hard and succeed in life. I want to be a part of a campus with a great community and high involvement in activities.

As a freshman at UNCW, I was starting out in a new place for the very first time, away from my friends and family. So many different thoughts were running through my mind like “How do I make friends.” Maybe I could join different clubs and organizations around campus. I found myself wanting sign up for sorority recruitment, to see what Greek life was about here at UNCW.

I am thoroughly excited to possess the opportunity to go to my top school of choice, Norfolk State University! They make sure that they thoroughly prepare

Hey there! I’m Hadas Klinger, and this is my second year in being a grade representative. I love fries, youtube, and stepping on crunchy leaves. Most importantly, I love being a part of student council. I get to watch the joy on my peer’s faces when I give them free hot chocolate and hand out free candy. High school was something that I always feared, and Student Council helped me get over my fears. I always have a smile, and I try my best to go the extra mile. The most important thing I’ve learned from high school (so far) is to keep staying positive because it doesn’t matter how many bad days you’ve had, it’s the good ones that you will cherish.

Coming to the University of Washington was the biggest transition I’ve ever made. I come from a small town in eastern Washington that a very small percentage of people have heard of. By small I don’t mean 15,000 people with fast food chains that make up downtown. The current population of Hartline is about 80 people in total. There are no restaurants or even a gas station. The two towns on either side of it, Almira and Coulee City, combine to form a high school with less than a hundred students in it as well. My graduating class was 17 people. This means that we all knew each other, each other’s parents, where everyone lived, and where they went after school. I would not wish it on my worst enemy.

Some skills that I learned in PD #1 was to speak out loud more and to step out my comfort zone. I hate public speaking because im super insecure about my voice and im afraid that people will misunderstand what I say and take it the wrong way. It happens to me often. But I learned that no one really cares as long as you voice your opinion right and say the things you want to say. You do what you have to do to take care of your responsibilities. Another skill I learned in PD#1 was to ask questions without having to be questioned about your question. In the drawing activity, I was able to clearly describe my drawing to my partner without having her messing up. It shows that I was able to talk out loud and that I should talk more slowly without

This course like my entire first semester of university have provided me with both many challenges as well as taught me many lessons not only for my university career, but for the rest of my life. As I reflect back on the semester, I recall telling myself at least once a week that I wanted to drop out of school, followed by many breakdowns, crying fits and calling defeat. The past few months, haven’t been at all easy for me, I have thought many times I wasn’t intelligent enough to be in university, I was disappointed with some of the grades I received and I was constantly engulfed in a swarm of stress. Despite all these tough times, I have had many good one’s as well, I have made new friends which are now integral to my everyday life and I have enhanced my knowledge to a new degree. Some of the many lessons that I’ve already learned in my short university experience include how to manage my time, the importance of meeting deadlines as well as the continuous struggle of balancing the various different facets of life.