The Beginning Of The Rest Of My Life Essay

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The Beginning of the Rest of My Life
Admit not one of us ever thought about how we would feel in our junior year of high school when we were running around the playground avoiding some poor, unfortunate soul yelling ‘Ew! So-and-so has cooties.’ We still avoided thinking about it in seventh grade when we spent hours the night before planning an outfit that would impress the cute kid in class. Yet, we still got here and now were planning our next step and seeing everything we every really knew stripped away because come the summer after senior year there is no more ‘I’ll see all my crowd in the same halls and the same classes at the beginning of next year.’ Instead, we go somewhere totally new. Whether or not it is one mile from home or one
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Established in 1451 by a charter from Pope Nicholas V, at the suggestion of King James II. The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the UK but the second oldest in Scotland itself. The educational choices Glasgow has to offer range far and wide so far in fact that there are actually four separate colleges each containing a number of schools all within the University itself. There is the College of Arts, College of Science and Engineering, College of Social Sciences and College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences. They all offer such a wide range of majors and degrees that I cannot see where I would begin if I were to list them but the most important of them all would probably be the fact that they have an entire school for the study of veterinary medicine within the university. I love Glasgow and dream of attending one day even the cost at not even twenty thousand a year is cheaper than other colleges within the States that I have looked into the space between my family and I would simply be too much to take knowing the fact that if something happened I would be days away instead of just the very long car ride that it would take if I kept it stateside with my preferred …show more content…
The school launched as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M), one of the countrywide land-grant colleges created after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862. In 1958 the Legislature retitled the school as Mississippi State University in acknowledgment of its academic growth and addition of graduate programs. The College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its initial class in 1977. The MSU Vet School (frequently referred to as the CVM) is the largest veterinary school under one roof in the nation and that is an amazing fact in itself especially considering I want to be a veterinarian. Today, the university has the following colleges and schools: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Architecture Art and Design, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy, College of Education, James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Shackouls Honors College, College of Forest Resources, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Human Sciences. Mississippi State University 's sixteen athletic teams are recognized as the Bulldogs, which was

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