Dylan
The University of Utah has given me an experience of a life time! I love how the Utes have taken me in and have been so polite, professional and creative to help my mind grow within the class setting! The theater department has given me skills I can us in the "real world" so that I can succeed and learn from my failures. The school has helped me grow as a person and has enrichened my life culturally by opened doors to me that I never would of thought of happening. One of the big things that has cultured me during my experience at the theater department is the senior Butoh shows. Butoh is a Japanese form of theater that expresses how you feel. This cultural expereince gives me ideas how to work on my craft as well as explore who I am as a person. The other experience that has given a confidence boost is when the theatre department brought in a talent scout from New York and accepted me into his workshop to audition for four casting directors in February 2011! These expereinces have helped me grow up and explore the world in a different way.
Jean
I have received a greater knowledge of the incredible history and challenge of people of color. The diversity classes that I have taken have helped me to have a broader perspective about the people in my community, their difficulties, opportunities to achieve and their abilities to move forward. I recognize that the opportunities that I have enjoyed are not the same for everyone. The levels of discrimination, education, and personal development are not available for all to embrace. The encouragement to become a stonger member of my community by learning about people that don't look or act like me has been interesting and satisfying. I am a better person because of my contact with incredible people from around the world. I try to learn from each person their personal story, their hopes and dreams, and the challenges that they have had to overcome to become a student of higher education. I have found that each person is unique, and that I can learn from everyone. The classroom information, blended with the incredible students that I have formed new friendships with help me to become a better student and attentive member of the global community.
Tarika
I have been given access to some of the brightest and best teachers in the nation. I have also learned a lot of different methods to learning based on teaching styles. I feel that no matter what, I can achieve the goal to graduate and finish college as a math major. I feel that there is support from my advisor and professors that will help me succeed for the rest of my academic career.
Cheston
I've learned a tremendous amount about myself in the past 18 months. Never before, like many of my peers, had I been placed in an environment where 95{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my daily decisions were completely up to me. It's eye opening to see how others react once they are on their own. Some act negatively while others seek to make the most out of their lives.
The freedom has made me realize that I make my own destiny. The dailiy choices I make will determine how successful I am for the next ten years. The little things, then, make a big difference in the large scheme of things. It's easy, however, to have a negative attitude throughout life, thus my second point is to choose your attitude. By choosing a positive attitude you already set yourself above your peers and that's something we should strive to do everyday.
Finally, there are millions of opportunities out there. It's important to take advantage of as many of them as possible. Some of thos opportunities may be new friends or scholarships. Who knows...one small opportunity can eventually lead to the opportunity of a lifetime.
Nicole
Through attending the University of Utah I have learned more about who I am as a person. I have become more aware of both my strengths and weaknesses. Attending college has been such a valuable experience for me because through completing both my undergraduate studies and prerequisite courses i have found the career that i want to pursue. It has become apparent to me that I want to pursue an education in a field that will include both my interest in the medical field and will enable me to help those around me. I have decided to complete my education and embark on a career in nursing. In the pursuit of this goal I have had many oppurtunities to serve those around me. Service to others has been a huge part of my education at the University of Utah. I have been an active participant in the service activities at the Bennion Center in the Student Union. Through serving others I have found that it has helped me realize just how blessed my life is and how fortunate I am to have the oppurtunity to recieve an education.
Kayla
Over this past year and a half at the University of Utah I have gained much more experience in leadership. My ability to analyze and think through problems has improved greatly from these newfound leadership skills. Ever since I moved away from my home in California last year and have had to live on my own, I have grown up so much and learned, from the example of student leaders around me, how to live as well as developed the tools to succeed on campus. I have become a student leader from the knowledge that I have gained in various campus experiences and through my work as an Associate Director on the Union Programming Council’s Community Service Board. On the Service Board I have had the opportuniy to plan and coordinate multiple events designed to cater to the whole student population including: dances, "Food for Finals," "Family Frightfest," carnival games, etc.
Jared
I have begun to understand the kind of work load that I am capable of having. Paying for your own school isn't easy while attneding school at the same time, so it gives you a much greater appreciation of your own education. I also have been able to follow my dreams, and see them come to life in my schooling while realizing others along the way. College has given me a new perspective of my own life's situation, and what I will be able to achieve if I stretch myself and work hard.
Brandon
College has been everything to what I am now and it will be one of the determining factors into who I become as a contributing citizen of this great nation. There are only three things that i hold incredibly close to my heart; my family, my religion, and my education. I must get an education, it is my fire and my heart and what it has done for me already is fueled my desire for a life of exellence and knowledge. Most of my academic life I have been interested in Psychology and I have gained so much respect and love from my field and my professors in sharing things that I hold dear to me. Now that I am in my major I feel accomplished and comfortable in my future. It is my strength in a disturbing economy and a shaky, shifty world. I have learned that there are so many depths to this world and that academics is the way to unlock those depths. I plan to take this to the end and to drain every last ounce of knowledge from my field and to apply it to help my family, myself, and my field of Clinical Psychology.
David
My college experience continues to grow daily. Every week is a new memory to look back on. Over the last three years the University of Utah has given me the best group of friends I could ever ask for and an academic drive that goes unmatched compared to high school. This school becomes a part of you living on campus for that long and I what I’m most appreciative for my experience here is that I was able to truly find myself and come to understand what I want out of life. I couldn’t ask anything more of this gorgeous mountain campus.
sophie
So far i have gotten knowledge, I have learned so many new things and experienced so many different teaching styles from my different professors. I'm getting an education when it comes down to it, that is just priceless. You can never go backward in life with an education only forward even if you end up choosing a completley different path what you had attended school for a educationaly background opens up more doorways for a person than someone who has no educational background. I take pride in my school work since I know the field I want to go into makes a high G.P.A. a qualifying factor. I want to eventually further my education to a bachelors degree and then possible masters. No path toward an education is easy, but the time that you put into it and the benefits you get out of it are worth the lengthy lectures and late nights staying up and studying for exams.