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As I am only a senior in highschool taking dual enrollment classes at my community college, I have learned an abundance of information about college and careers. I have noticed that many of the adults attending my community college look back and regret not going to college fresh out of highschool. Seeing these adults struggle has encouraged me to go for my highest goals and pursue my greatest dreams. My college experience has also shaped my personality, causing myself to be more open-minded to other students' ideas and techniques. I am very excited to complete my doctorates degree within the next five or six years. I already have a two-year headstart, so nothing can stop me!

I have learned how to live with someone else, and that my needs don't always come first.

I have learned a lot about my self and i have grown a lot as an idividual through my experiences. My education here will give me an advantage when i earn my degree and nter the job market because of these experiences.

During my journey through college I have experienced many great opportunities. I have received many new qualities in my life, such as becoming more intellectual and focused on my priorities. I have also gained better organizing skills. Not only have I grown more focused, but I have received an astounding amount of knew knowledge. This knowledge will help me pursue my future goals. This experience has been valuable to me because, I have received the opportunity to become a better person. My l life is physically changing for the better, as I progress through my college career. My faith for others and myself are getting stronger and my courage is building as I progress. This is why I believe college can be valuable to attend.

I have learned from my college experience that if you set your mind to going to college you can do it! My experience has been very valuable because I have learned how to be a better student and how to be a better parent.

I chose to go away to college to get the full experience and learn who I am as a person with out being the son of someone or brother of someone. So far, my college experience has been great! I joined the Hockey Club and made a lot of new friends. If I have any problems or questions, the teachers and administration have been easy to talk to. I am glad I went to college. It is something I will remember the rest of my life!

My college experience has serviced as the tool to make me realize what I really want to do with my life: teach. Going through a variety of classes and seeing what I liked and didn't like, as well as doing two internships, I was able to get excited about my future and my new path. Ultimately, it's been valuable because I don't think I would've come to these realizations had I not been forced to do an internship.

I think that it has been a very great experience for me. I am alot more social now. I think it has taught me more responsibility and that you have to do your homework and balance work. I really think that it will help me in the future with finding a job with my degree.

From my college experience I have acquired valuable traits that I did not possess prior to this year. Time-management, responsibility, and hard work are just a few of these traits. After graduation, I was unsure whether or not to attend college because I thought I was grown-up enough to take on the world. After my first year, however, I have come to realize that I still have a lot to learn and that I will never stop learning. I am glad I am attending college because it forces me to grow and a person and constantly make personal improvements. I have also learned a lot about priorities. My experience with college has taught me what is important in my life and what can wait until the important things, such as family, schoolwork, and commitments, have been taken care of. My high school experienced quenched the thirst for knowledge that I had developed as a child, but college has brought all of this back. I cannot wait for next year's classes to begin because I cannot wait to continue learning new things. In fact, I'm taking summer classes so I can continue to learn over the summer.

From being a college student, I know that I need to manage my time wisely and how I also need to do the work myself in order to make sure I'm on the right track to a good job after graduation. Over the course of my first year at Ball State, I found that without some sort of time management plan, I found that I would spend most of my time on Facebook rather than on my studies. As for the second point, I have found that I am the one, not my parents or anyone else, that needs to go to the Career Center to see about Internships and other opportunities to make sure I am on my way to getting a decent job after graduation.

Ball State has allowed me to grow and become a stronger individual. I have worked as a group fitness instructor, an assistant to the associate athletic director, and a community aide for the university apartments. All experiences were different and I was able to gain confidence in myself and can work in a variety of environments. I also have had the opportunity to have leadership roles within a sorority (Alpha Gamma Delta), the Panhellenic Council (governing body for all sororities), and serve as President for the Ball State Dietetic Association. I feel like I have been able to provide learning opportunities for my classmates and have served as a role model to those around. Upon completing my undergraduate degree in Exercise Physiology, I had the opportunity to complete and internship in Melbourne, Florida in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. This experience was one of the best experiences of my life and will always cherish the education and friendships that I gained during the semester. Because of Ball State, I have been fortunate to have taken advantage of all the opportunities that were presented and did things I never thought I could or would!

So far my college experience has been great! I love being independent and on my own, it has helped me do a lot of growing up. It has helped me become more responsible for my classes, my homework, my work schedule. I am very self relient. This has been extremely valuable to me because it shows me that I have started to not rely on my parents as much as I did when I lived at home. One of the best things I have gotten out of my college experience is new friends. Going away to school was fresh start and I have definitely made new friends that will be around for a long time. These friends are valuable because they help me out with school, work, and problems. They are exremely vauluable because they serve as my support system. What I've learned from my college experience is that I have grown into a confident, self relient, independent young woman, and I could not be more proud of myself.

I have gotten more friends, a broader world view. The experience has been very pleasant. I have learned alot from the profesors and folow students.

Out of the college experience I have gotten so many things. I have grown into the person that I think I am meant to be. I have also learned so much about myself and other people through living on campus and being in close quarters with so many different types of people. I have also found out what it is going to take for me to excel in the major I have choosen and how to manage my time to still have fun but get everything that needs to be done. It has been valuable because without this experience it would have been hard for me to find myself and make the adjustments needed to make it in the real world.

So far, my college education has been an overall beneficial experience in several aspects of my life. Going to college has made me a more independent, confident, and open-minded person. Although I face challenges and stress in several areas of the experience, it helps prepare me for "the real world" by presenting me with decision-making duties and multiple responsibilities. I can express myself creatively through my major, while still learning a great deal about my own abilities and the subjects I'm interested in. I'm also able to expose myself to types of knowledge that are un-specific to my major - things that I wouldn't be able to experience without attending college. Also, getting to know professors and classmates, as well as getting involved with campus greek life, has proved to be an overall positive way of enjoying my time here. It's been a very valuable change in my life, with both positive and negative aspects to it, to pursue a college education. However, I am fully confident that I will gain life-long memories, the necessary knowledge and experience towards an exciting career, and a degree that can carry me to success in life.

More than anything else, college has taught me a lot about myself. It gives a good sense of independence and. I think school has been great for my confidence.

I am enjoying learning there is alot of things that I feel I didnt learn in school. This is an opportunity for me to get a job I like to do. I feel like no matter who you are you can go back to schools and better yourself. Its valuable to me to attend because it will benefit my family, kids especially.

I only go online but this enables me to work and study without having to show up at class since having to have 2 job to survive. Going to college will make it possible to get a higher paying job so that now that I am 51and divorced, working two jobs will not be a necessity. More money for any one is a great thing and being able to breathe in between paychecks will be up there on a greater plane. Going to college gives me self- esteem that no one could give me. I was told when I was growing up that I couldn't go, there was no reason for me to go, I couldn't pass even if I did attend. So having passed my first semester with my online college I can say all those relatives were wrong. College to me is the ultimate goal that I can do for myself, to improve myself, to complete the next 3 semesters and graduate with my Associate's degree will be just what I've been dreaming of for so long.

I have learned from my college experience about myself. I have found my true self in the few months of being in school and am happy to be learning about what I want in life, my strenghts and weaknesses and about where I am going. It has been great to meet new friends and to be encouraged by them to grow and to be the best that I can be in every situation. Although my academics are difficult, I am finding strength through my friends and motivation through their support.

Don?t sweat it, kid. College is nothing like what you might expect. In high school, you look at logistics and memorize random subjects that you think will never pertain to your future. The thing is?they just might. In high school, you live by the book, in college you have to relearn how to learn. Your study habits and life as a bookworm are over. The majority of professors don?t even use the book. You can?t enjoy sleeping in and skipping classes and think that you will get any education. College is all about interactive learning and attending classes to do it. Don?t think bringing your cell phone or computer is entertainment to survive. And although solitaire might be a bit more entertaining than your monotonous professor, you are wasting money with every click. Just relax and have fun! Don?t take college as the basis of the rest of your life, because quite frankly, if you graduate as an artist and end up as an engineer, it?s okay. You won?t have wasted your life, but rather you?ll have built on your experience for the future with great knowledge and life experiences.