College is a wonderful experience and I am grateful that I
was allowed to attend college for all four years. Every year I watched by debt
and loans grown and pile up, but what I also watched was my list of friends and
colleagues grow.
College is a great place not only to obtain an education but
this is where most people meet and become friends that turn into lifetime
friends. People with different lifestyles and from different places around the
state, country, and even world come together and form friendships, some that
last a lifetime.
I know for me, attending a new school in a new state was
definitely a new thing and a new start for me. I graduated with a class of
thirty one students, then coming to a school that had six hundred incoming
freshmen was crazy I thought and that was a smaller university I chose to
attend. Attending a smaller university was definitely the right choice. Here I
was able to meet someone and then the next day run into them on my way to
class.
After deciding on a major of Elementary Education and began
taking classes, I also then started to get to know and meet other students who
were studying to become teachers. There in class we were able to discuss our
thoughts about becoming teachers and educating the future kids. We were able to
discuss thoughts, and bounce ideas off of each other. The more discussions we
had in class and the more classes we had together, we started to hang out
outside of the classroom. Meeting new people and becoming friends and such a
major part of the college experience, apart from obtaining a degree I think
that, that comes in second.
College is a place not only where debt grows, but where a
new beginning happens, and where one meets new friends that last a lifetime.
