Personal Narrative: The Day I Choose LCC

The Day I Choose LCC Have you ever thought about what college you would attend and how successful you would be? Well I have, as child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I be able to succeed. I imagined how collage would be, would I attended a large university or a small local community college. Students may even worry about the ACT and SAT and how successful will they be when taking those two extremely important tests. Luckily, I choose a school that didn 't stress me out about those test scores. I choose Lakeland Community College. It was the fall of two-thousand and fifth-teen my senior year in high school! With so many other events on my mind such as my last homecoming, prom and commencement I really didn 't want to think about college, but it was something I had to do. My friends were all talking about college,their dream schools and where they would love to attend school. My friends wanted to attend schools such as Cleveland Institute of Art or top ivy league schools such as Cornell University. None of those schools where right for me. Before my senior year I only took tours of two schools. The University of Akron and Lakeland Community College. I had dreams of going to Bowling Green State University or the University of Toledo. As my senior year began I realized that a university might not be right for me. One day I wrote down a checklist of all the items I wanted my collage to have. This list included a small campus,safety,close to home and low tuition, I thought back to the day my mom and I visited Lakeland Community College. I remembered it was a nice summer day and extremly hot. I loved that the campus wasn 't too big or too small it was the perfect size. I also admired how buildings weren 't spread out everywhere, I thought to myself If I attend a university such as Cleveland State University buildings would be spread out everywhere and I didn 't like the idea of that. I also remember the people at Lakeland and how they were all extremely nice and very helpful. Another thing I remember about Lakeland was walking around. I loved walking around campus, seeing the courtyard in the middle of the buildings and the nice green freshly cut grass, It was beautiful. I also recall picking up a pamphlet and looking at the cost of classes and tuition, the tuition was lower than the university 's I’ve looked into. I thought to myself this collage is also extremely close to home to, approximately fifth-teen minutes away from home. Tuition, size and location were crossed off my list of college needs. I told my mom I believed Lakeland is the perfect school for me. When I told my friends and some family that I was staying home for school they all asked the same question, why? They all wanted to know why I didn 't want to get away from home, venture out and get the college experience, like living in a dorm and being on my own. My response was Lakeland is the perfect school for me. One day after I came home from school I told my mom I was ready to apply for college. I opened my laptop and began …show more content…
Professors have showed me how important it is to continue with your college education. They get very excited when you tell them you would like to go farther than Lakeland and transfer to a university or go across the street and attend the Holden University Center to continue your degree. Another positive impact lakeland has made in my life is studying habits. In high school I had good grades and sometimes I studied and sometimes I didn 't. But now I study because I want to do phenomenal and make the dean 's list. Therefore, as a young child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I succeed. Have you ever had these same thoughts? Young adults might worry about how successful they will be in college and are they prepared for this huge task. Luckily, I don 't have to worry about that because I have wonderful professors at Lakeland Community College that will help me along the exciting