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Upon my entrance to NYU, I truly felt that I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life. However, that all changed after I started my classes. The professors have an extremely unique teaching technique and helped me develop interests in subjects that I would never have thought I would enjoy. NYU also provided me with a more diverse social circle; growing up in my neighborhood in Brooklyn isolated me from other cultures. I lived among people who were strictly from the same background as me, but that all changed when I started to dorm. I am also so pleased with the variety of internships and courses NYU offers us. The advisors are a pleasure because you can truly tell that they care about their students' decisions. Going to college at NYU provides a very different college experience. It is not your cliche fraternity and sorority ordeal; in NYU you have the world at your finger tips and an open-air campus.

I have transformed into a confident women who has the tools to implement her dream of becoming a CEO for Sharon Inc., a financial planning firm for African Americans. I am amazed at the financial obstacles that I have overcome to continue my education. It has proven to me that I am resilent when given the right motivation.

By attending college 1500 miles away from home, my college experience thus far has actually taught me a lot about who I am as a person. I have excelled in class, obtaining a 3.589 GPA in my first semester, and I have gotten involved in university activities. In middle school I was constantly involved in NJHS or any other organization of that type that represented students in the community. In high school, I wasn't as involved as I had been in middle school and that hurt me as I began my college search and an actual discovery of who I want to be in the future. In my first semester in college , by becoming involved in student council, I have revitalized a very important part of who I am and it has helped me determine much more than just the academic path I want to take, it has also showed me what I desire for a career in the future. If I hadn't been this far from home, I never would have escaped my comfort zone and really discovered who I am.

After high school, I had no plans for the future. A vague idea that the everything in my world would just fall into place was all I graduated with. Three years later, I realized a college education is the best way to progress in the world. My college experience has been amazing. If I would have know that attending school would have been this easy and fun I would have started college before I finshed high school.

My college experience has affected my life in many positive ways and has given me the ability to learn about different people from a wide range of cultures. I have learned much needed skills to work in the health care industry and am now enjoying my education to become a nurse. I have a great respect for students and teachers as well and would like to teach in the future. One of the the most important and valuable lessons that I learned from attending college is how to work with others. I was very shy growing up and college has improved my speaking abilities and taught me how to not only communicate with people but also how to better understand my role as a future health care provider in my community. Coming from an immigrant family, I will be the first to get a degree and have appreciated and recognized the importance and value of an education, and am very thankful to have the opportunity to be part of the college experience. I will pass the importance of an education along to my children and will encourage and support their future education.

What I have gotten out of my college experience is knowledge, perseverance, and a college degree. A college degree is something that no one can take away from you. It opens up the gates of opportunity in a competitive arena where only the strongest and most knowledgeable will survive. It has been a valuable experience for me because I am the first generation in my family to go to college. My father graduated from high school but my mother has a sixth grade education. My grandmother use to signed her name with an x because she never learned how to write. My college experience and degrees have enabled me to raise my girls, support my mother thoughout the years and to feel financially secure. All the student loans I took were well worth it. In nowadays without a college education you will be making minimal wage and will mostly work from paycheck to paycheck. A college degree will be required in the near future for all leadership jobs, experience is good but a college education is even better. Going to college will definitely enrich your life. Still one of the best experiences in my life.

I've gone through a lot of ups and downs about attending NYU. Like most freshman, I was exhilarated to be starting college, especially in a city as vibrant and exciting as NYC. But also like many freshman, at least at NYU, after the initial euphoria wore off, I found myself disappointed with how my college experience was turning out. I didn't quite feel that I fit--into city life and at NYU. Being a California girl, the cold reality of my first "real" winter didn't help either. I considered transferring (to somewhere both quieter and warmer), but ultimately decided to stick it out, and I'm really glad I did. NYU doesn't provide any barriers between its students and the city, and being thrust into "real" life in this way has forced me to grow up faster than my peers at other colleges --a fact that I resented at first, but am now grateful for. I've had valuable work experience at internships that I wouldn't have been able to get in any place but New York, and I feel like I've learned so much, both in the classroom and out of it.

I find that community colleges get bad reps for undergrad studies! After I have left high school I went to Onondaga Community College to save thousands of dollars in tuition. Have I seen that after year and a half? Yes! Although I did not travel far from college, so I pretty much stayed in one place for ninteen years., I do not regret it at all. Going to a four insition would have scared me. Community college was a bit like high school, but it still gave me some indepedence as a student. I did not have to worry about fitting in or join clichs. I was free to be myself and be a loner if I wanted. I also was not surround by my age group. Being around grown ups who wanted second chances and hearing there stories were inspirational. I had the college setting, the college financial responsibilities, but it went a bit slower. I am definitly more prepare and dynamic to attend a four year college. I have learn so much from these two years. Community college gave me a great insight than going to a four year after high school would have.

With a tumultuous childhood and an early adulthood that had me already living independently and working full-time, while also doing extensive volunteer work with a local animal rescue group, I was a late-bloomer when it came to realizing how much I wanted to continue my education. However, the events that led me to enrolling in community college in 2008 have put me on a path that I never would have expected. I have served as editor-in chief of my school's literary and arts magazine, was chosen as a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke scholarship, and was accepted as a transfer student to a selective program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Through college, I have seen myself grow as a person, and I have gained a life-changing experience, life-long friends, and access to a network of opportunites.

I grew up in a community and attended a high school that was not very diverse. Coming to a school like NYU in a big city has exposed me to a colorful pool of classmates and professors that have helped to expand my mind. It's extremely refreshing to not only get to know people who are nothing like you. Walking around to get to my classes proves to be an experience in itself as I encounter the characters of Greenwich Village. NYU's take on education allows me to learn about fields other than my major (Film/TV), such as Archaeology. Living in NYC has given me a sense of independence that is perhaps greater than that which I would have acquired at a campus school. This school and this city have also provided my with opportunities that I know I would never have at any other school. For example, through a club I'm a part of, I was able to work at a movie screening and director/actor Q&A session for Variety magazine. Working at an industry-exclusive event is just an example of the experiences I have the opportunity to take advantage of at NYU.