Brookdale Reflection

There is a stigma associated with attending Brookdale. It did not make sense to me, and I did not let it stop me. In my senior year of high school, I blatantly told everyone I was going to Brookdale and faced opposition. No one understood. I was in the top ten percent of my class. I was in national honors society. I was active in sports as well as volunteering. I took plenty of AP classes. But I wanted to go to Brookdale. I would attend Brookdale in the Fall. They thought I was crazy. I did not want the so-called college life, the parties, the sororities and fraternities. I wanted academics. My peers continued to pester me in asking why I was so adamant about attending Brookdale. Another reason was that I could not afford college loans. I had …show more content…
I was able to engage in challenging classes within the Honors association as well as expand my confidence within WILL, Women in Learning and Leadership. My perspective on each and every concept I learned kept changing and growing and altering. I learned alongside people of varying cultures, and ages, which expanded my perspective on numerous issues. I changed my major at least four or five times, and did not have to worry about wasting thousands of dollars by doing so. I am still accumulating more information and deciphering what it is exactly I want to do and who I want to be. Brookdale not only offered me the ability to learn, but truly think about what I was …show more content…
She asked me about my brother and said, “Is he going to a real college?” Is what I have accomplished not real? Has the struggle, stress and self discovery I experienced at Brookdale been nothing but fallacy? I have reason to believe that it was real. When someone asks me why I chose to go to brookdale, I tell him or her that I chose so for an education. I went to brookdale to learn not only material, but about myself as an individual and as a student. An education is what you make it. Brookdale has offered me amazing opportunities. When someone tells me Brookdale isn’t a real college, I have the diploma, the certificates, the professors, the fellow students and the memories to prove