The Best Years Of My Life

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When recent college graduates look back at their collegian experience, most claim that those four years are the best four years of their life. Many cite their social life and friends they met throughout college as the reason why those four years are the best they’ve ever had. Knowing this, I was very excited to enter college coming out of high school, thinking that the next four years are going to bring exciting new changes. Although it took me a while to realize it, college did end up being the best years of my life, but for a very different reason. My three-and-a-half American International College, known also as AIC, were some of the most difficult years of my life. Going into AIC, I was excited with all the prospect of being a collegian athlete at such a high level. My coach at the time filled me with so many promises that made me envision my four years as being the time of my life. My first year of …show more content…

I took extra credits in Spring 2015, as well as 19 credits in Fall 2015. During the summer I took two courses in order to graduate a semester early and be done with AIC after my senior soccer season. I also took the LSAT in June 2015, as well as October 2015, in order to be able to apply to law school during my last semester of college. All of this was on top of being a college athlete and working during school. To many 21 year olds, these responsibilities would be too much to handle in such a short time, but I loved all the stress that came with it. I had to learn to be responsible and prioritize what I really wanted out of life. As my last semester of college is quickly winding down, I am proud to display my 3.4 GPA, and although I did not do as well on the LSAT as I would have liked, I know that I am the type of driven student that will succeed in law

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