Life is a journey of growth and development. Each and everyday a new adventure is embarked on from which we learn and grow. These everyday moments define and create who we are. However, some days there are events that change the very reality of our lives. One of these events was moving into college. For the first time in my life, I was on my own in a strange, new place, and for only moving into college four months ago, I have begun one of the greatest transformations of my life. To be able to understand this transformation, one must start from the beginning. This is the the adventure of my life.
On August 29, 1997 in Gretna Nebraska, a little nine pound six ounce baby named Paul Bonn was brought into the lives of Bo and Sara Bonn. From that moment, the
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This growth was first nurtured by the new people who I have met. With all of the different backgrounds and ideals, my knowledge of different cultures around the country and world started to grow. Along with the knowledge comes a understanding and acceptance of others. Not only does this acceptance branch to the cultures being directly learn about but all cultures because a more open mind develops from this cultural awareness growing. This exposure to new cultures was not the only experience expanding my acceptance. Another activity that has helped grow my acceptance was the card game in class. Not being able to speak and having different rules help simulate how others have to adjust when moving to a new place. This activity helped my understanding grow because I had now experienced what other people feel in a different culture. By experiencing this phenomenon, the judgement I use to feel when I saw a person of a different background do something odd is no longer felt. Instead, sympathy and a wanting to help has taken the judgements place. The card activity and emerging myself with new people has help nurture and grow my acceptance of
It is expected that within a span of four years drastic changes can occur to any person. An example of such case is our experience throughout four years of high school or college; it is a time in which each obstacle that we surpass will become an experience that builds character. We have all left our childhood behind, but we have yet to taste the full essence of adulthood. Within these years of being cast astray to find our own paths, it is common for us students to experience regular episodes of anxiety, stress, and crippling self-doubt.
In Paul Toughmay’s “Who Gets to Graduate,” he follows a young first year college student, Vanessa Brewer, explaining her doubts, fears, and emotions while starting her college journey. As a student, at the University of Texas Brewer feels small and as if she doesn’t belong. Seeking advice from her family she calls her mom but after their conversation Brewer feels even more discouraged. Similar to Brewer I have had extreme emotions, doubts, and fears my freshman year in college.
In my high school today myself along with other high school students, we overcome obstacles we could have never thought of our freshman year. At the beginning of our college prep four class, students learn that “college should be an adventure” as Dr. Rouch states in his article to incoming freshman. Thesis: Interestingly, Chris puts the practice into action when he embarks on an adventure in spite of his Asperger's. Body Paragraph 1: Christophers Attitude:
"Tomorrow is the first day of what I will become." I wrote this in my diary the night before my first day of college. I was anxious as I imagined the stereotypical college room: intellectual students, in-depth discussions about neat stuff, and of course, a casual professor sporting the tweed jacket with leather elbows. I was also ill as I foresaw myself drowning in a murky pool of reading assignments and finals, hearing a deep, depressing voice ask "What can you do with your life?" Since then, I've settled comfortably into the college "scene" and have treated myself to the myth that I'll hear my calling someday, and that my future will introduce itself to me with a hardy handshake. I can't completely rid my conscience from reality, however. My university education and college experience has become a sort of fitful, and sleepless night, in which I have wonderful dreams and ideas, but when I awaken to apply these aspirations, reality sounds as a six thirty alarm and my dreams are forgotten.
When I moved into my dorm, I didn’t know what to expect in college. It was something my parents expected me to attend. For most of life, I was a sheltered boy who stayed home all the time. I didn’t hang out with friends until my last year of high school. After I come home from school, I would either finish homework or watch Youtube videos. It wasn’t until the first few days of college until I realized the amount of freedom I received. College allowed me to do what I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid. It has already taught me more than the last 18 years of my life. I’ve experienced and learned more about myself and the world around me in just the first semester and it started with my classes.
I graduate this May after six, long, self-searching years of three universities, four majors and a semester off from college. I, too, have been trying to find my own pathway and figuring out which direction to take. It’s been frustrating. The beauty of the theme of this play is that life isn’t a straight path, but the adventures you bravely take. This play reminded that life doesn’t have to be a check-lists of accomplishments that define my purpose; my purpose is defined by the risks I take and by what adventures I embark
Katharine Butler Hathaway once said, “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” In doing this, I broadened my horizons and changed my outlook on life. Now, as I move on to college, I am leaving my family and friends again to educate and better myself so that I am prepared to walk down any path on the road of life.
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I nervously opened the doors to my future, hoping for the best for myself. At first, I believed departing to class would be simple, but when the bell rang for the first time I had no idea what class room goes where and how busy the halls were going to be. Suddenly, the entire world around me scrambled to class, and on occasions bumping each other along the way; it was a widespread panic for most of the freshmen. Fortunately, I found some wonderful teachers to direct me to my rooms that I will spend the next year
The journey of life follows a predetermined pattern; we evolve from needing influence and guidance to finally reaching that point where our lives are up to us. I consider myself very lucky up to this point in my journey. Some people become sidetracked and wind up on a far different course than initially planned, but the detours I made have only assisted in embellishing the individual instead of devouring it.
My educational journey has been like a roller coaster. I have been in the worst spot of my life time. Where I hate going to school but, also think about my father education. My career goal is one of my most important in my life to better myself than I am today tomorrow I will better than yesterdays.
I have a very fulfilling feeling about what I have been able to accomplish in my life so far. I want the absolute best for myself and those close to me. I often go above and beyond to help those around me succeed and be the best version of themselves that they can possibly be.
Then you start to realize how much things have changed, and you realize the hardest part of college is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. In the matter of one day's traveling time, we will leave our world of living next door to our best friends, walking across campus to eat, instant messenger, 8:00am classes, and the perpetual procrastination to a world that will seem foreign to us despite the fact that we lived in it for eighteen years.
I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me.
A new experience, a change from the norm, looking out for myself, and living on my own: for me this is college. The transition of high school student to college seemed immensely overwhelming and even a bit scary. The shift opened a can of worms and created challenges, both good and bad, behind every corner. Due to the change of scene, I am now dealing with the everyday acceptance of the greater world around me: the town, the people and my new life.