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I have been completely and totally immersed in studies for my major (broadcast journalism) since day one. Some schools make you wait until your junior year before you get to take classes in your major. At Emerson it's on from day one. From your first day you can get involved in whatever it is that interests you. The level of your participation is up to you, but by getting involved you not only practice what you are learning first hand but it keeps you interested and involved. I whole heartedly recommend Emerson College.

As a freshman at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, I have already achieved so much. Not just academically wise, but career wise too. My first semester of college, I was a reporter and correspondent for two of the award-winning student run organizations at Emerson College. I also joined the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority and became a member of the Fashion Society. As a broadcast journalism major, I am striving to become the next Katie Couric. Emerson College is giving me the tools that I need to pursue this ambition. I have always been a compassionate, motivated and talented individual. I am determined to be successful, and I know I will be. Maintaining a 3.4 GPA average, my college experience thus far has been amazing. It is crucially important to recieve the right education so that you can pursue your dreams. With recieving that education, you must also get involved as much as you can. Getting involved will help you in your career ambitions and it will help you to pursue those ambitions faster. You never know if you can do something if you don't try. College has taught me that.

College is different for everyone. It is an experience that is unique to each individual. Through the college experience I have learned to be completely on my own. I don't mean living on my own with out my parents and learning to be independent. I mean completely on my own and learning how to fend for myself and be my own friend. In the college experience you get the chance to meet a lot of interesting people and some of those people teach you some really important lessons about life and slowly you start to grow up. These lessons taught me to be dependent on myself for my own happiness. I had some great, absolutely AMAZING times in college, but the hardest part was leaving college and still knowing that my life was going to move on with or without those people in my life. College taught me how to be an adult and to believe in myself without reconfirmation from anyone else but me.

College truly is the best four years of your life. It’s a time of self-discovery, of friendships made that will last a lifetime, and experience gained that will stay with you throughout your life. I know for sure now that I want to become a television writer, no matter how impossible it may seem. I have met fantastic people who will probably be in the top of their fields. I’ve learned how to cope with rejection and to bull though it. Life can be crap, it can be frustrating, it may not seem worth it, but eventually, it is. Emerson College isn’t just another institution of higher learning, it’s reality, it’s life. No matter how much I may second-guess myself in times of crisis, I always know that whatever I’m going through, I can turn to my friends, laugh, sleep it off, and look forward to doing it all over again the next day.

A lot of connections and recommendations, you're basically paying for the job you can secure after graduation. Definitley worth it.

Ifi was able to go back in time in talk to myself, I would tell myself that college life isn't what its cracked up to be. I explain to myself that there is alot of studying and hardwork to succeed in the class room. I will tell myself know that in order for me to succeed, I will have to manage my time between my friends and school work, and spend more time on my school work then hanging out with my friends, because in the end if I hang out with friends, I will not be graduateing and they will and they will move one while you are left behind. I will assure myself that everything will be ok, If i have any problems ask don't just push it off and try to do your best. Ask for the help thats why there are instructors they are there to help you make the grade and walk across the stage in the end.

?Seek first to understand, then to be understood.? High school seniors stand with legs straddling doorways of childhood homes and college dorms. Seniors need to reject self-importance and listen to parents. As a self-absorbed senior, I claimed as teens do, that my parents didn?t ?understand? what 21st century teens require in college. In the need to exert control over destiny, I didn?t listen. Parental advice was dismissed. Like many families the college search was fraught with tension. Parental insights fell on deaf ears. Instead of trying to be understood, I should?ve tried to understand. Why as we approach graduation, do we ignore the words of the only people who?ve always had our interest/success at heart? Instead of listening attentively, we like Odysseus?s crew plug our ears against the sirens? song. But unlike sirens, parents mean no harm. They understand us. They know our needs. Shouldn?t they, after nurturing and guiding us to senior year? My advice, listen to parents. Really try to understand. Don?t feel you?re misunderstood. You?re not. Parents offer sound advice that will help you choose the best college that suits personal, financial, and academic needs.

You will be ok. A lot of things are changing right now, an open mind to this change will soon become your best friend. Call home, but once a day; not three or four times. In the whirwind of change that is this transition, home is the one constant. Trust in that. Don't forget to have fun; go the movies, or a play, or for a walk around your city. You are here for four years- never again will you have the opportunity to live as you are now. Remember the reasons you loved Emerson in the first place and rediscover those reasons. Be confident in the fact that you have made the right decision in this school. But, most importantly, in the words of Christian D. Larson, "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

As a high school senior, I was already three years into a committed relationship. Unfortunately, my priority when entering my first year of college was focusing on keeping my relationship in tact and withstanding the test of change. I knew to expect that college changes people and I watched as my friends ended their relationships in preparing for what was to come. I stuck it out with my boyfriend and we made it to our four-year anniversary. Two months later it was over for the same reasons my friends ended theirs: it was time to look change in the eye and experience new things and relationships. If anything, I would tell myself not to fight change and certainly not to fear it. In trying to keep a relationship exactly how it had always been, I forefitted opportunities to grow as an individual. Allowing yourself the time to be your own number one is the most precious experience one can have- especially during such a crucial window of your life. Finally, I would try to instill empowerment in the young girl who valued the title of someone's girlfriend more than being an individual at too young an age.

I'm a sophomore transfer student at Emerson College in Boston and I absolutely love it here. I'm from the Boston area, but I spent my freshman year at another university far away from home. If I had known what the next two years would bring in my senior year of high school, I would have done things a little differently. In my senior year I applied to Emerson as a Theater major and was rejected, so I went to college in New York instead. After spending a few months at a school that wasn't a good fit for me, I reapplied to Emerson as a Media Studies major. This time, I was accepted and offered the greatest grant the school gives. It turns out that I'm much more cut out for behind the scenes work; I feel that I'm learning so much more than I did last year and I'm preparing myself for a great career. If I could go back in time, I would show myself what I'm really good at and make sure to apply for the right major so I could avoid spending a year in the wrong place.