Waynesburg University Reflection

During my first semester at Waynesburg University I have learned one thing about myself and multiple things about the college that has really helped with my school work and makes me feel better about who I am. Throughout high school I believed that I was not the smartest person in my school but here at Waynesburg I really cracked down on my studies and have learned that I am actually pretty smart and I encourage myself to get good grades and so do my friends and it makes me feel better about who I am as a person intellectually.

Coming to Waynesburg University I have learned different thing about the faculty, classes, students, community, and the atmosphere. I stereotyped college professors off of movies I have watched and thought they were

all going to just show up teach class and that was it. This stereotype about the professors at Waynesburg was completely wrong the professors are actually very nice and will help you anyway they can you can pass their class with a good grade. I was extremely nervous about most of classes and I overthought how hard they were going to be and now I have learned that if you just put the time and effort into your studies for your classes you will understand what is the professor is teaching. The community here at Waynesburg is very relaxed and small which I like because there is not a lot of people but just enough where you see a different face every day. The atmosphere at Waynesburg gives me a positive vibe because everyone is always smiling and it makes me happy because I’m not surrounded by people who are depressed.
What I hope to experience here at Waynesburg with the three years I have left. To be honest I do not know what I want to experience in my remaining years here at Waynesburg. I like to take everything day by day and not look too much into the future and just live in the now because to me that’s what is what is most important. I do not want to wish my days away here because I am having a blast meeting new people, doing my own thing, and making great friends and I just want to keep doing exactly that while I’m here at Waynesburg.
When I look back on my five external experiences for this course it makes me feel like I was more engaged with the campus because it gave me opportunities do things that I would not think about doing like seeing the play Hamlet, going to chapel, and meeting Doc Hendley which will probably one of my favorite things I got to do this semester. I do not feel liked I missed an opportunity to experience something here at Waynesburg because some of the things the school has going on like guest speakers just don’t interest me that much. One thing that I would not usually do but I did here at Waynesburg was go to chapel and I have to say chapel was not that bad I thought it was interesting in the ways they did things because it was not like a usual church. The expectations I have for myself in respect to what Waynesburg has to offer would be to try different things that are out of my norm and see how I like it and how it makes me feel as a person.
When I look back at this letter during my last year the message I would have for myself would be to keep up doing whatever I have done up to this point in my life to graduate and carry that work ethic and motivation into my future job. I would also like to tell myself congratulations and go out and work hard so that I can reward myself with an antique Harley Davidson. The last message I want to tell myself is to organize your vacation days wisely so I can take that long motorcycle trip that freshmen John wants to take so badly right now.