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my college experience has been great. as someone who slacked off in high school, it really made me realize that my education is in my hands and im the only person who can make it go where i want it to and that i have to actually work to get there. not only have i learned to take responsibility for my life, but i have been molded into someone who has higher standards for my life compared to those i know who didnt go to college. as an end result, i recieved an associates of arts and associates of science degrees in 2010, and i am moving on to a future in respiratory therapy. also, i have learned a lot about who i am. i have become a well rounded, responsible, motivated, enthusiastic person who is very happy with the decisions i have made and my future is looking very bright. that alone is what made my experience valuable.

Thus far my college experience has taught me many valuable life lessons, in and out of the classroom. In class, I have already found a deep love for the subject of economics and cannot get enough of it. I have found that no matter what setting I remain terrible at calculus. And I have finally been able to pursue reading books after books each week which are actually enjoyable and relate to life. Outside of the classroom, I have lived in a small tight-knit dorm which has taught me to respect others and really open up to those around me. Adjusting to a new city, a new environment, was difficult but this community has helped me flourish and understand many important qualities of growing up.

The college I am attending (Full Sail University - Online) is providing me with not only the knowledge I will need to go into the video game industry, but I am also learning about (1) art in general and how I can be a better artist, and (2) what will be expected of me in the professional world. The school consistently pushes how to be professional in the field you are in, and what the industry will be expecting of you. It isn't just about shoveling the knowledge into your head and sending you on your way, the are actually preparing you for your career. That level of dedication and helpfulness isn't something I see often in educational spheres, and I'm lucky to have chosen such a school to help secure my future.

My college expirience has so far been a great oppertunity for me to become more educated and grow as a person. Taking classes to challenge myself, and learn more about subjects i would have never considered if not given the oppertunity. Its been valuable for me to attend college because i have learned how to focus on my school and balance my life along with it. Meeting many new people and hearing their veiws on world events or local events going on, is also a great learning expirience, and has helped me to expand my ideas. College has been very benificial in many ways, and i am so thankful i have made it this far.

After attending the orientation at San Jose State University, it still didn't strike me that I was now a college student. I had signed up for my classes and left with a good impression of San Jose State University. I was excited and ready to begin a new chapter of my life. I was notified that I won't be able to attend and I was devastated. I didn't know what to do and since I had already moved to a nearby area. I quickly brushed that burden off and applied for a nearby community college. I crashed classes and attended as much seminars as I could to satisfy being a full-time student. Now second semester is beginning and I am taking seventeen units to be able to transfer within the two years. At Chabot College, their reputation is students transfering at four to five years, and I want to beat that. I learned that college is all about dedication and I love that challenge I have received because, now it makes my college experience a new learning experience on how to view things as if it could've been worse. But so far, its the best.

I grew up and it only took four years. Years of different classes and new people. People of various creed, color, and orientation. That day should have been a dead give-away. To run Away from here and not look back Cause I’ve never felt so conscious of being black, Or not white? Bright? Light enough to be noticed. I grew up and it only took four years. So what if I’m a little more tanned? So what if I love God but don’t prove it? So what because I grew up but it took four years too long. Too long to understand the world isn’t fair. At least Fair enough to those whose skin it matches. Matches aflame to the cold welcome of Life. Life means nothing then when you are obsolete. Incomplete because your world treats you so. Then there it goes. Might as well give up now. Now that you realize it just doesn’t matter. Matter to anyone but yourself. It might have taken me four years, but I know this. One Self to love and I love myself. A four year lesson in the making, a lifetime lesson for the taking.

Due to various circumstances, I never had the opportunity to attend college. I convinced myself that a degree was "just a piece of paper", and got used to working two jobs. Eventually I put myself through a very expensive 5 week course in Finance and Insurance Management, and worked as a Finance Manager until the economy swept away my job in 2008. Although I was making a lot of money, and I could have gone to another dealership, I despised the corrupt nature of the job. So, at 34, I decided to go back to school. In January, 2009 I began attending a community college, and surprised myself by earning a 4.0 that semester. I have maintained that 4.0 and I now have one more semester to complete before earning my Associates Degree in Business. I realise that I was not entirely wrong in my previous judgment on education, but you get out of it what you put in. Anything worth doing requires some effort, but I found that I actually enjoy many classes. Also, I discovered that so many pieces of previous education, and life, fell into place. My goal now...Forensic Accounting ! Education is enlightenment.

Going into college, I was stepping out of my comfort zone. New faces, new classes, and a new environment were factors I haven't experienced since I entered high school. I was afraid of not making friends, clinging too much onto my old ones, and drowning in the workload. I worried most of the summer, and once in my dorm, I worried some more. Suddenly, there was a knock at my door. I opened it, and a girl introduced herself, saying she lived next door and was looking for my roommate. I replied that I didn't know where she was. I suddenly felt outgoing, and asked the girl if she wanted to walk around campus. As the weeks passed by, that girl became one of my best friends. Though college can be tough, either academically or personally, I have come to believe that everything works itself out. I still worry, but then I try to remember that first day, and how quickly I made a friend. From one friend at college, I made more. From those friends, I had support. From their support, I built confidence in myself. It is with this confidence that I can achieve anything.

College so far is flying by. This experience is something I want to savor because I can already tell that these are truly going to be the best years of my life. I suppose I would say that I have learned to just get my work done so that I can focus on other things I enjoy. Get involved! I've met so many interesting people with interesting perspectives that have helped me to grow. Living away from home has taught me that I can survive, I can take care of myself. I know now what I'm capable of and what my limits are.

This is a question that can't be precisely answered in words, so I'll see if I can lay out the closest idea to my thoughts regarding the question. While I could think back to each of my classes and think of some theory that I've learned from it, there is so much more that I've become. I feel that it is very difficult to explain my growth in terms of maturity and readiness for life after college, but I can at least conceptualize what my life will be like thanks to my development as a student and person of Villanova University. In the grand scheme of things, anyone can regurgitate information, but practically applying what I've learned is what I'll carry on. While this could be the case at any university, the value of a secondary education at Villanova is high in that regard (which I suppose it should be based on the tuition). They tell us at freshmen orientation that Villanova transforms hearts and minds, and in some way they do- it becomes the duty of the graduates to live the transformation.