College Admissions Essay: My Life For The Better

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With every fall, a new crop of freshmen journey to college with one word on their mind: change. College is a time when students are told to find themselves, experience a life separate from their parents, and to create new connectionss with friends, professors, roommates and anyone else they find in this entirely new environment. For myself the biggest change was moving from rural DeWitt, Iowa to the bustling city of Providence, Rhode Island. Trading in dirt roads and vast expanses of land devoted to crops for a culinary school by the harbor has brought on many new changes. Even though I have only been here for a few short weeks I can already tell that these changes have improved my life for the better. The most prominent change in my new life has been the sheer number of people and different backgrounds they have. I live in a dorm that has more students than my entire high school. This massive number of people has already exposed me to different walks of …show more content…

I have yet to really go out on the town at night, but in my opinion you don’t need to leave your dorm’s lounge to know what night life is. First, back home my I had a joke that our town closed at 10 pm. This was because in DeWitt you would be pressed to find anything other than a gas station or bar open after 10 and after midnight the town was devoid of life. In Providence there are pizza places that deliver until 4 in the morning, and find busses running to dry-cleaner’s convenience stores, night clubs, bars and, parties. The second evidence of night life without leaving your dorm’s lounge comes in the form of other people crawling in. Every weekend the front door provides prime entertainment. People are stumbling in and out at all times, all of them in various forms of inebriation and never looking like they did before they left. In one night I could watch one person being carried in by strangers and another couple ready to share a bed with each

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