The University of Montana Top Questions

After I graduated from High School I didnt think that I would ever need to go to college to become successful. After working two different jobs and living from paycheck to paycheck, I decided it was time to put my ego aside. After I began taking classes at the University of Montana I realized all the things that I couldn't do without a degree. At first I wanted to get a degree in a healthcare related field but after working in the healthcare industry for almost a year I decided to pursue my passion, engineering. Unfortunately the UM doesn't offer an engineering program so I am taking the closest major to it, physics. Not only did college open my eyes to academic success, it brought me into ROTC. I was unsure about joining the Army at first but after I joined I saw all the benefits of becoming an Military Officer. So to sum everything up, going to college has been a life--changing event and I will always look back and be proud to graduate from it.

I have learned alot of valuable information about my field of choice which will help me attain a better paying job to support my family. College has also helped me rediscover my learning potential and my love for learning.

College has allowed me a freedom of choice for my own life. It has opened my eyes to many diffferent lifestyles, allowed me to become comfortable in my OWN skin, and helped me to become more independent with my life. Not only have I made lifelong friends at this school, but I have found a sense of pride in myself, and I know that anything can be accomplished as long as you believe in yourself. I have learned responsibility and humility, learned to be both independent in my beliefs and dependent on others for help. Without friends, family, and the help of everyone at this school, my life would have no meaning, and I would have no interest in fulfilling it to my fullest potential.

Within my college experience, I have taken some of the most difficult classes offered at Macomb Community College. During my first two years in college, I have maintained a 3.5 GPA while taking 18 credit hours per semester. These accomplishments have come from dedication and focus to achieve my self-set goals. Engineering is a field that I have always been interested in. Attending college is helping reassure that I have chosen a career path that will challenge and excite me and will also be in high demand in the future. Throughout college, I have learned that focus, dedication, and hard work will help me attain what I need to be successful both in my remaining college as well as my entire future. It is also becoming more obvious the value of a college education from meeting older students who are returning to school to finish their degree or start a new career. I have enjoyed meeting new people from different countries and backgrounds within my classes and groups I have taken part in. I have joined Phi Theta Kappa and become a member of IEEE to maximize my college experience.

The value of my education is something vast, beautiful and largely intangible. It is not to be found on a payroll, nor a lofty title, nor any number of dollar signs. It cannot be measured in such terms. Rather, the value of my college experience can be found in the development of my humanity, and my understanding of this world as the complex relationships between individuals. As a student at Central Washington University, I followed my passion for music; there, I learned to express true sentiment without using words but rather with a bass and a bow. With these low sounds I learned to tell of joy, of misery, and how to write these things for other musicians. I then suffered a financial blow, and returned to community college. There I followed my passion for language and honed my craft as a journalist. I learned how to express in words what I did in music before. Between these two institutions, and now in my first semester at UM, I have learned to embrace the full spectrum of mankind and tell their stories in order that we might be remembered in generations to come.

I love the University of Montana. I love the out door activities it has to offer and appreciate the amazing professors.

Since attending the University of Montana I have recieved confidence in my ability to succeed in my major and intended profession. My teachers have always been helpful, challenging me to my utmost abilities. They have cared more about me as a person than about my grades or assignments, always helping me to succeed in my endeavors. Not everything has been academically based, though. The people I have met, the friends I have made, and the acceptance I have recieved has all played an important part in why I love Missoula so much. College life has helped me grow as a person and figure out who I am and who I want to become. Missoula has shaped my future, and I wouldn't want it to be shaped any other way.

My college experience. Some of the most important are that I have learned to become more responsible, persitant, and brave. When you leave your home to go away for college you really get a crash course on being on your own. At first it's really fun, but when the bills come and you have no food made to your liking or there when you get home from school you find whether you can last without being at home with your parents. You find you have to make the hard desicion, whether to get those new shoes or is it not in the budget. should you go out and drink or stay home and study, and set your alarm, because your mom will not be there to get you up. I have also learned to be persitant in everything I do, I have learned I have to if I want anything. If at first you don't succeed do it again and again. I have also learned to be brave and to try new things and have been way out of my comfort zone which is a good thing and what most people need to do to learn things.

The thinks that i have received out of my college experience is that you don't always know what you want to be when you enroll for school. I prolly will end up picking another degree in the long run. Hopefully not with were I am now. However, it's been valuable by getting to grow as a person, and being allowed to figure out what I want to do with my life.

I've been going to college for a few years now, and I believe it’s been a great learning experience. I've gained so many new experience’s and life lessons I’ve learned by going to college. I've also learned how to cope with all the challenges that come with life, and being an adult. I truly believe this experience has made me a better person., and I think more people should have the understanding and knowledge of higher education. I also believe that this world needs to be more educated, without knowledge ignorance and misunderstandings’ are created.