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Everyone thinks that you are going to college to learn in the classrooom, but I have found that outside of the classroom is where I have been taught the most. As an Advocate for the University of Montana I have been able to learn from every one that has come my way, and teach the incoming freshman about what my experience is like here on campus. Being able to say that I helped an incoming student transition a little better from high school to college has been something that has made an inpact on me.

I feel college has given me several different types of resources in order to navigate life and realize my potential. Academically school provides great challenges on a day to day basis that keeps my brain energized and functioning. I am in a constant process of deduction, research, and problem-solving that makes me an overall better decision-maker in life. Intellectually it presents new ideas that cause me to reflect inward and ponder who I really am and where I fit in the greater scheme of community, local and global, and where I can use my talents to contribute to making my community and the world a better place to be. Socially, college is one of the best environments to discover your individuality and your talents and to cultivate and nurture them. I have been exposed to many different types of people and have learned tolerance and acceptance for many types of lifestyles and belief systems that I may not have otherwise been exposed to in my hometown community. I would not be who I am without my experience in college, and I think I am a wonderful, fascinating person that has much to give back to the world.

Attending the University of Montana has been invaluable to me, personally and professionally. I graduated with two degrees, and due to a school-based work-study program, I was able to get a full-time job in the field I was pursuing. My professors wanted their students to learn, and they helped me find the topics I was interested in. My college experience not only afforded me education, but I also grew personally. The attitude at this university specifically promotes people to be open-minded and accepting of all people, ethnicities, religions, and personalities. This helped me become a more tolerant and understanding person, an attitude that leads to a more successful life. I learned a lot while attending the University of Montana, and this has led me to return to the school in pursuit of a graduate degree. I enjoyed my experience and felt that the education was valuable. I want to obtain more knowledge, and I would not have the drive I have and professional goals if I had not attended college. College is important for not only learning, but also for maturing into a goal-oriented adult.

This is my first year of college, and I finished up my first semester with a mix of relief and anxiety for the future. The relief came from witnessing that college is completely different than high school, which I am thankful for. For 12 years in the public system, I had always felt caged. During the last half of my senior year of high school, I finished online and was more isolated than I had ever imagined I would be. But college brought freedom. It felt so great to sit in a class for an hour or so, and then be able to walk around outside or sit with my friends while I waited for another class to begin. I could be home by 2 and relax or go to work not feeling exhausted. Now that I have transferred to a university though, I am anxious about the debt and student loans. Nothing terrifies me more than to be drowning in a sea of debt by the time I am ready to graduate. I am doing this on my own without help from my parents. But it has made me stronger because of it.

My past and first semester of college has been very eventful for me. One, I played football for a first year program. We had a lot of ups and downs, and it taught me to persevere through tough times because things will only get better in the future. I've also created friendships that was very valuable to me, being that I attended a college over a 1000 miles away from home. These friends helped me settle down, and I'm more comfortable then I was when I first got to school. Even the faculty members are down to earth. I feel a sense of security with my Professors because it's a completely different setting than High School. So far my experiences have been nothing but helpful and I look forward to continue these experiences next semester and my remaining 31/2 years.

Attending college has been wonderful as far as growing up and finding out who I am goes. It is a time where you can decide what your priorities really are and what you are really willing to get out of life. So far, I have grown tremendously in college. I have felt what it is like to have my heart broken, yet still managed to find my soulmate. I have gained a new determination in my athletics after recieving back surgury a few months ago thanks to amazing teammates and coaches. I have valued every stupid decision I have made because I have learned from each and every one of them. College has given me so many problem solving skills that I would never get anywhere else. I know that my career is going to be amazing based on how hard I have learned to work.

For the first eighteen years of my life, the word change was hardly a part of my vocabulary. When it was time to embark on a new chapter in my life, to say I was terrified is an understatement. Not only was I moving to a new city and attending a new school, I would have to develop a new routine and try new things. The butterflies engulfed my stomach the whole first day, but I lived through it. Attending college has shown me that trying new things keeps life interesting, as well as develops my academic, leadership, and social skills. I have had so many experiences since that first day, school related and not, that I am so estatic I did not miss out on because of my fear of change and new things. My most recent big leap of faith came this past semester when I applied for a position where I would have to teach my own group of students, and got it! I still get the occasional butterflies before the first time of trying something, but the fact that I have the courage to do it despite the butterflies is the best feeling in the world.

Since attending college, I have developed my own opinions and have learned who I am as an individual. I have had many learning experiences that I would have never had anywhere else. The diverse knowledge of all the teachers in the Fine Arts department have helped me pick and choose what I like most. Deciding to go to college has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Most of all, I feel confident that, I will be able to use my degree to make a living in what I love to do.

I have been able to learn how to become a serious scientist and researcher. I have also been given the opportunity to transcend the socio-economic level by earning my Bachelors degree and working toward my Master's degree. College has been a vehicle to change my familiies cycle of generational drug abuse. I am a first generation college graduate.

What have I gotten out of my college experience? Well, I'm not sure for I am still attending. One thing I do know for sure is that I have absolutely no idea of what I wish to study or become in the future. I do believe that if I continue with my college experience, I am bound to find and perhaps spark an interest in a potential future career. I am a wandering soul to the core but have yet to be lost. Perhaps, I will get lost in the immense amount of education and knowledge my college has to offer me.

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.