University of Kansas Top Questions

Leadership experience and intellectual developpement.

My college experience has taught me responsibility and discipline. By the completion of my Bachelor's degree, I will have spent a total of seven years completing classes in the undergraduate curriculum. This is mostly due to the fact that I changed majors once, but I also transferred schools. This is also partly due to a couple semesters that I felt school was not that important to me. Now, I realize how valuable my education is and I sincerely regret my lack of ambition during those semesters. I am on track to complete my degree by the Spring of 2012 and it is getting harder and harder to make sure I have enough money complete this goal. Graduating from college is now my number one priority and I take it very seriously. If not for the demand of performance from my professors, I would have taken this education for granted. I cannot express how thankful I am to have learned these lessons now while it is not too late for me to succeed in the classroom, and in my life after graduation.

I'm happy now. It's a new thing for me.

My college has helped me fullfill my dreams of beieng able to do what I love to perfection of working on cars. I never thought I would be someone to attend college because I have always hated school. Now I love waking up every morning to go to school and do what I've always wanted to do!

KU has always been my dream. Now I'm here and it's amazing. I'm surrounded by amazing people, a beautiful campus, and I know I'm getting the best education. I've made real connections here and it's now my home. I've been able to find myself and express myself the way I want. KU is a great place to be you, everyone gets along and everyone is treated like the best.

I have learned to push myself hard for the academic goals I want. I have been given a great foundation for research and my studies through the facility at KU. This is valuable to me because this education is what I need to get me to the career and life I want to live, which is a career as a professor at a university just like the one I attend. Here at KU, I am able to study classes and material in and out of class that interests me and fulfills my desire for knowledge. I have always had an extreme passion for learning and going to college here has helped fulfill that passion.

I believe it has been valuable to attend The University of Kansas not only because it has allowed me to be achieving a degree at one of the best universities in my opinion, it has allowed me to learn more about myself and venture away from the help of my parents. I have learned a lot about myself and have met so many new and wonderful people here. My college experience so far has been a lot about life lessons and learning to grow as a person, which I believe is very important. I am excited to learn many more things and become more and more independent each and every day. Without attending a 4-year university, I don't believe I would have learned these vauluable first-year lessons that I have learned so far by attending The University of Kansas. I am grateful for these lessons that I am learning each and every day no matter how challenging they may be.

My college experience has been just average so far. I have been stressed financially to go to a 4 year university, so I have been staying at home and going to a community college. I do have to say, it has been a great learning experience, the classes have been challenging and rewarding and I have been learning a lot. It is just not the same as being away from home. I think that going to a community college has been good because although I have been stuck at home with my family, I still attend my home church. I was fortunate enough to have the time to fundraise through my church and go on a month long mission trip to Belize. It was a great eye-opening experience. I was put into a culture completely different from my own and was able to grow as a person. I gained long-lasting memories and relationships. So although community college hasn't given me the whole social aspect of a university it did give me time to do some traveling and mission work. That is valuable in itself. However, with this money it will help me pursue my goals further.

During my college experience I have discovered myself. KU has allowed me to get involved in activites that help the community and give me life experiences I could not have received anywhere else. I have gained independence and have met many wonderful individuals through college activities and classes. My courses have allowed me to work to my potential and achieve my academic goals. The information that I learn in my courses is relevant, valuable and hands on. I get great in the field experience at KU and I get to be involved in community as well. I have been able to get a great education and life skills that I will have forever. The activities and experiences that I have gotten from KU have shaped who I am and have made me a better person. Without KU, I would not be the person I am today, nor would I have the same experience and knowledge.

College is a nice wall of reality. You slam into it pretty hard, but it's at a slant, helping you to get back up on your feet. I was a student that didn't need to study in high school. I had moved so much throughout grade school that my friendships, for the most part, were short lived. College has helped to not only improve myself as a student, but my social competence as well. It has been a difficult adjustment, though well worth the difficult work. Long nights in front of a paper and textbooks are more and more common as I struggel to define the mechanism of an organic reaction or the pathway of expression for an allele. Add in a part-time job and it becomes a massive juggling act. I now also have more than my family to care about. I work to memorize birthdays and schedules so I can congragulate my friends with a present or after a difficult test. It's a bit more work than I was accustomed to growing up, but I love the trust , support and confidence we give eachother through these early college years.