University of Illinois at Chicago Top Questions

I just completed my first semester of college, and it has already been a difficult, yet life-changing experience. My Professors this semester were incredible, I have learned to look at current issues from various perspectice, and how to respectfully disagree with my peers. I have learned how vastly different things are in the legal field depending on the lawyer you work for, and that most Attorneys have a very specific style in which they want their employees to perform tasks. I have learned that one must adapt to the environment created by their boss, and perform every task to meet the needs of their employer. College has been valuable so far because I have learned that there are Professors who value the opinions of their pupils, and it makes me feel good about myself as a student to have someone be genuinly interested in my perspective. In college it is okay to be opinionated and outspoken, it is a completely different environment from anything else, and I think everyone should attend some type of college in their lifetime.

This is my first year at the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in biology premed. I started the year overwhelmed with loans, long hours of studying and transitioning from high school to college. I graduated high school in three years so I felt a little misplaced with my new class. However, I managed to overcome that because people are very friendly and mainly focused on my studies and goals. I finished the semester with a 3.8 gpa and was content with the grades. For the next semester, I know I will work harder to maintain and hopefully raise my gpa to a 4.0. I feel more confident about succeeding in college because I went from a lazy high school student to a hardworking college student. At UIC, I work as a housing tour guide so it really helped boost up my self esteem and made me more confident. At college, I am really experiencing the feeling of independence. I am on my own and looking out for myself for the first time. I am very grateful to attend UIC because for the first time I feel like I have full control of my life.

While attending my school, I have undoubtedly gained a lot of knowledge about my field of study, as well as world experience.

While I was in high school I never had to study. Since I started college, I now study almost every night and also work a full time job so I'm realizing what it's like to be out in the real world. It has been great meeting new people from different backgrounds and having study groups with them. Also, my professors actually interact with the students and want to know what they can do differently to help us learn, which is one of the main things I love about Southwest Mississippi Community College. It has been very valuable to attend this college because I have gotten my requirements for my radiology major without having to pay the amount that I would at a university and also the professors will meet with you after class to help you with the things you dont understand. Overall, my college experience wasn't what i expected at all, but it was ten times better than what I thought.

From my college experience, I earned the knowledge of meeting diverse groups of people. It's been valuable to me because when I attended high school, there weren't a lot of different ethnicities and so it was hard to mingle with other people. But by coming here, I've meet a lot of different groups of people and learned about their culture.

Although I'm only half way through, I've gotten a since of self from college. I've grown so much as a person, intellectually, spiritually, and mentally. College has taught me how to analyze every aspect of life, instead of simply accepting what is thrown my way. Even though college is far from cheap, the knowledge, since of self and community, the various fellowship opprotunities, and the opprotunities for research that are gained through the college experience makes paying $20,000+ a year worth while. If given the chance to choose another life path, I would have walked down the same path.

I have found out a lot about myself in this university. Things that I like and I don't like. I have taken a lot of classes in a lot of fields. It definitely is not a cake walk. I hope my experience can help other students.

What I have gotten out of my college experience thus far is a sense of personal pride. One learns to push themself when they start attending classes at the college level and when the motivation is there success follows. Personal motivation is a key necessity at the college level and one learns that as they go. But do you really want to know whats been most valuable. The challenge. Some teachers tell their classes from the start that "90 percent of you will fail this." Please, bring it on professor. Thats what I have taken from college so far. There is no challenge that I will back down to and that is exactly what the teachers are preparing us for. Life is a challenge and people will be out there to tell you that you can not succeed and you will fail. The professors want to teach you that if you refuse to believe them and put forth the effort needed, you in fact can succeed. I have learned that when I am told something is not possible, it is up to me to prove that it is.

I have gotten goos study habits out of my college experince. College is different than high school. In high school all you had to do is come to school. I never studied in high school. So when i went to college i didnt know how to study, do to prevent myself from failing i had to learn some new study habits. I also i learned how to balance out school work and some free time for me. I now kno whow to manage my time. Its been valuable to attend college because i want to get a better education and succeed in life. I don't want to be like my family members because they never went to college or high school. I wanna be the first to graduate college in my family.

I have learned a lot out of my college experience to this point. I have learned that being book smart is not always everything. It does you nothing if you know everything on a subject, but you do not know how to interact with other people. Good interaction with others is a key quality. This has been a very valuable lesson learned and was greatly enforced in a positive way in the school I am attending now. This is because our professors are all working architects, there for a good connection with them, could there for help me in the future.