From the day I stepped on campus at Bryant University I knew there was something special about this place. This place wasn’t like anything I’d ever experienced before. Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I attended a large public high school, with over 1,000 kids in my class. Based on my experience in a large high school, I assumed the only logical progression for me was to attend a large public state university. I assumed I would join all of my high school best friends at one of the state schools. However, my sophomore of high school, field hockey entered the picture and everything changed. I started to get good at field hockey and I became hooked. I was spending close to thirty hours a week at field hockey and it started to pay off.
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In China I had the opportunity to start over. I was given a fresh start in a new country, surrounded by people that didn’t know me and had zero expectations of me. China was a life changing experience for me. I decided to take the lessons I learned in china back to America with me and I decided to start over. The spring of my sophomore year I dropped my business classes, changed my major, took a month of from field hockey and focused on doing the things that truly made me happy. I took classes that I was truly interested in. I started going to yoga, I made time to talk to old friends, and for the first time in seven years I picked up a book and read it for fun. Much to my surprise, I found out that I actually love reading. Within the first week of being back at school I had read three new books. I was enjoying the books I was reading, but more importantly, I was reading them because I wanted to. The past few weeks have been great at Bryant; however, I have realized that the lifestyle I am currently living at Bryant is not maintainable. If I stay at Bryant I will eventually have to take more business classes. I will have to go back to field hockey, and as a result, I will most likely be giving up the yoga and reading that I did in my free
In China I had the opportunity to start over. I was given a fresh start in a new country, surrounded by people that didn’t know me and had zero expectations of me. China was a life changing experience for me. I decided to take the lessons I learned in china back to America with me and I decided to start over. The spring of my sophomore year I dropped my business classes, changed my major, took a month of from field hockey and focused on doing the things that truly made me happy. I took classes that I was truly interested in. I started going to yoga, I made time to talk to old friends, and for the first time in seven years I picked up a book and read it for fun. Much to my surprise, I found out that I actually love reading. Within the first week of being back at school I had read three new books. I was enjoying the books I was reading, but more importantly, I was reading them because I wanted to. The past few weeks have been great at Bryant; however, I have realized that the lifestyle I am currently living at Bryant is not maintainable. If I stay at Bryant I will eventually have to take more business classes. I will have to go back to field hockey, and as a result, I will most likely be giving up the yoga and reading that I did in my free