University of Delaware Top Questions

Although I am transferring from the University of Delaware, my college experience here has undoubtedly helped me rediscover my priorities and values. I am a double major in Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics with a pre-dental course of study. Because of the lack of student resources, I was forced to advocate for myself and handle real life situations on my own. Additionally, professors are very unwilling to help students, to the point that it handicaps us educationally. The shy students who don’t speak up are at a marginal disadvantage here. These students are my peers and we all belong to a common community. My goal in life is to help and empower others because everyone is capable of achievement. I have grown more as a person here than as a student. However, my personal growth will follow me throughout my educational and professional careers. I hope to instill in others the same sense of autonomy that UD helped me to achieve.

My classes will begin in January and this will be my first year in college. I am a thirty-five year old recently seperated female and look forward to becoming something much more. Due to family obligations I have not been able to attend college, but have always had the desire. I am now under no family obligations and have nothing holding me back other than money. I am more than excited to begin classes and know without a shadow of doubt that the degree I am persuing will be a life changing improvement. I strive to be an independant woman with an outstanding career. The college experience that I am about to encounter will be both challenging and rewarding. I look forward to entering the Fire & Emergency Services field both educated and skilled with a readiness to perform. I have pre-studied both of these fields using all materials available to me, have completed my EMT-Basic course at the local community college, and have worked with the Firefighters at one of the local Fire Stations to gain personal knowledge of this field. I am more than prepared to press on in my studies in a college degree program.

I have gotten an excellent, rigorous education before attending medical school. As a result of the opportunities relevant to my career path, it has been valuable to me.

I remember in high school a guest speaker coming in to talk about our future (AKA college). He kept saying how college was "an investment in your future". He explained how we get the promise of a better future if we invest our time and money now. This is true, however, I feel that the time I have invested in college will reap many more benefits than just an increased salary when I enter the work force. College gave me a "trial run" at life. I could be out on my own and be responsible for my own well-being, but I also had an entire community to lean on for support if I ever faltered. I still had a job, bills, and other expenses, but I could also afford to take risks and try new things. College helps you build networking skills and communication skills that will be helpful when you step out of the protective college bubble and into the harsh real world. College is that in-between world where you can still have the imagination and dreams of a child while taking on more responsibility and freedom of an adult.

As a college senior I can look back on the past 3 years knowing they are filled with great memories and an amazing experience. I was slow to realize the opportunity I had at an amazing school but once I was tuned in, I was in love. I am involved in Residence Life as a resident assistant, play intramural sports with friends, and am a part of a Christian youth group. I have learned how to be a leader through ResLIfe, A team player through sports, and a reliable and giving person through youth group. I spend most nights studying because of the difficulty of my major. I spend over 30 hours a week in the classroom and laboratory. My free time is spent participating in events on campus like Relay for Life and Campus Day of Service. I love to give back at my school and appreciate what has been given to me.

In my college experience at Chaffey College, I have gotten many things that are not found at a university. Chaffey has success centers that focus on helping students with any of the subjects they need help with, primarily math and english. Class sizes are also smaller and therefore, professors are more apt to focus their attention on more students and their questions. Also, the times of classes at Chaffey are convenient enough for me to get a job while I'm in school. It has been valuable for me to attend this college because I am able to save money while still obtaining the same general education I would get at a 4 year university. Money is the primary reason why I was not able to attend a university last fall and I find that I am comfortable with this school setting. While attending, I also realized the career I want to pursue which is psychology. Last year, I thought that I wanted to be a nurse. However, after taking the psychology class and learning more about the subject of psychology, I knew that I wanted to become a clinical psychologist.

I have gotten a feel of self-worth out of my college experience. I have been able to meet new and interesting people who in interacting with them show me who my true personality has changed and reacted. I have seen what I need to do in order to accomplish what ever I want in the world, and I have learned the ways to do those things. I almost was not able to live on campus during the first semester; and I am extremely glad I was able to because it has been very valuable to me. I have seen what it is like to live on my own and be independent. I have also learned the social skills needed in order to live peacefully with my roommate and respect her things. This experience has been very valuable to be as a whole in determining the person I want to be.

Everyone use to tell me that middleschool will be so much harder than elementary, and highschool will be so much harder than middleschool, but they were wrong. Finally, I got to college and all of those promises of difficulties actually came forth. I had to teach myself how to study, how to be diligent, how to succeed. Highschool was just a game to me, but college is the real thing. I have learned the power of friendship, I have discovered the will to absorb knowledge that not everyone gets a chance to encounter. Most of all I have found that one should never take anything for granted. I listen to students talk about how they just failed a very important test after a long night of drinking, and instead of making me angry, I actually feel sorry for them. I hope that one day college will mean as much to those people as it does to me. College has helped me grow, it has helped me become someone. Someone I think I am going to like someday.

I have learned a lot more in college than I ever did in high school. I have made friends that will probably be my friends for life. College has really helped me figure out what I want to do with my life. I want to teach kids and I want them to understand that there is unlimited knowledge in the world. As for me, I intend to learn as much as i can.

My college experience has taught me how to be a self-sufficient young woman. Over the course of the past four years I have really had to learn how to be a "grown-up" in terms of juggling school, work, play, and other responsibilities. It's the little things that I’ve learned that have made me a self-sufficient person: like when I needed to reach out to my Cultural Geography professor about a paper. I had to find a tiny building on a sprawling campus and be articulate enough to voice my concerns. Coming to college forced me to be accountable in my research job, that involved going into inner city impoverished homes and assessing children. While keeping up with these apsects of life, I learned how to navigate friendships on my own, realizing how difficult it is to find people that truly "get you", and realizing that I still needed to hold my head high and keep up the pace of my demanding life. Junior year taught me how to pay a bill. These "abstract" concepts of adulthood have become a reality for me and I have had to grow emotionally and intellectually to keep up.