University of Wisconsin-Madison Top Questions

So far I have found my college experience to be eye opening and very helpful. In the short amount of time I have been on campus I have learned many things that have helped me to become a well rounded individual.

In the short month and a half that I have been at college, I have already pulled and stretched myself in ways that I never thought possible. I am living in the Green House, a housing community centered around leading an environmentally friendly existence. I am taking a Japanese language class, and twice a week I attend a Psychology lecture of 350 people. I am becoming more familiar with a beautiful culture, and I have learned how to think in ways that will help me lead a happier life. I also work in a dining hall about three times a week where I make nachos, deliver pizzas, and cashier. I have become more efficient, and I have fun while also earning a little money to pay for my food. Perhaps the scariest thing I've done yet is volunteer for the student radio. I've never been involved with radio before, but I am being trained to be a DJ on my own music show. I am now friends with the soundboard and I can fade in and out of music. I plan to take myself out of my comfort zone even further and maybe even learn how to cook!

Life is regretful without going to college. From elementary school to high school, we are still like birds in the nest. We still follow adults' wish, we still accept elders' protection, we have not open our wings to really fly by ourselves. But college is like the first time when we stand on the edge of the nest: we look up to the sky to see its wideness, we also look down to be aware of the dangers. We are luckier than birds, we have a process named college, where we can prepare ourselves before we really going into the society. In college, I took many science , math and engineering classes, they have been enjoyable and helpful, providing me better preparative for career in engineering. Also, because I have done many labs with different partners, I found out that good teamwork is the key to success, to build a good teamwork, friendship is the base. Studying in college is different from high school. Unlike high school, professors are not supervisors anymore, they just hand out the assignments, then you are on your own. So self-supervision is another important thing I learned. I believe I benefit a lot from college.

I've only been in this campus for about a month so far. However, I can already find myself being so attached to this school for the reason that there is just so much things I know that I will not be able to experience at other colleges. I've already been exposed to a learning environment that is very challenging but yet, exciting as well as to all these numerous opportunities to be a part of extracurricular activities such as kendo, fencing, drumming, and ethnic clubs in which I can explore.

Out of my college experience, I have gotten many things that will benefit me through out my life. To name just a few, I learned that my view of things were different from other people's point of views. Entering a prodominately White college from a prodominately Black high school, my view was only based on where I came from, so I had to learn to be submissive and passive to other people and how they view different things. I had to begin listening and learning from others before I opened my mouth and said what I thought and how I viewed it. I also learned how to be independent and make independent decisions that was vital to my college experience and my life. College has been valuable to attend because it gives you a chance to learn how to prioritize and take care of your business. It also gives you the prespective of how the real world will be after college. while in college, it's slight different because you focus more on yourself than others most of the time, however, when entering into the real world, it's about how well you work well with others.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has opened my eyes and my mind. Here I have made friends from across the world, am taking classes that interest me and do not only fulfill requirements, and have been given the opportunity to study abroad. I have been taught by leading researchers, published authors, and the most caring and interesting faculty any school would be honored to host. Every semester I am inspired to take on new tasks, challenge myself and others, and to, most importantly, learn. Though Madison is challenging, I enjoy what I am learning and am encouraged to be creative in even the most traditional subjects. Thus far I have gotten a well rounded, inspiring eduaction, I have grown personaly and academically, and have cheered on the best sports teams in the Big Ten in sold-out stadiums!

I have experienced the chance to live on my own and feel what it is like to support myself. My parents help me when they can but I am basically responsible for myself. I work part-time and go to school full-time which has been a good balance. I have plenty of time for studying and hanging out with friends. Madison, Wisconsin is a beautiful city to live in and I've enjoyed going to college there.

Great thinkers postulate that people learn best in defeat, finding success only after a thorough grounding in failure; by attending college, I found this to be true. Our Creator Yah endows everyone with at least one Gift from broad spectrums of potentialities. Over time, with favorable circumstance and intent, we each may hone and perfect our Gifts, perhaps earning some other(s). Ideally, the microcosmic environment of academia provides controlled atmospheres in which to intimately familiarize oneself with both one?s own Given wings and the winds upon which they soar. Testing theories and practices, embarking upon flights of imagination and supposition, trying the outermost limits of tangible reality, probing the depths of conjecture and faith, all of us fail repeatedly and often miserably. Yet in failing, we fall back down to begin again until finally, transcending the mere ignominious lucidity of failure, we begin to realize the image and likeness of our Creator. There we find our individual answers, strengths, contributions and destinies. Attending college enabled me to see, if only for one brief, infinitesimal moment, through the prism of unfettered experience and witness the true potential of humanity as the Omniscient sees it; I am improved forever thereby.

I haven't yet been able to attend college, due to financial difficulties in my family. However, my college preparation itself has been a huge learning experience. I never realized how much patience it would take! I've researched countless scholarships, filling out any application I've been eligible for, and submitted my FAFSA every year, only to watch my friends leave for college, leaving me behind, the only one unable to reach her dreams. However, I'm still trying, still working toward my goals. Someday I will be able to go to college, to finish my education, to start a life for myself and my future family. And when I get there, I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that I did everything possible to help myself reach that dream.

What I've gotten out of my college experience was that nothing in life is easy, nobody's going to hand you your degree, work must be done or otherwise you pay. It has been vaulable to attend because I discovered you can fnd good friends; they may be completely different from you but you love them just the same.