The Importance Of Playing Baseball

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Ultimately, playing baseball is what brought me to the small town of Barbourville, Kentucky to attend Union College. My first year of college I attended Broward College in South Florida. My sophomore year I went to Frederick Community College in Frederick, Maryland. Before I attended Union College I was attending two year community colleges so the whole four year school difference really was “different”. There are many things that I didn’t get to experience at the two year schools I attended that I have got to here. One thing that is very noticeable right of the bat is people living on campus the fact that there is campus life is completely new to me. I don’t personally live on campus but my previous schools just had the buildings for school and that was it. My time at Union has been …show more content…
I also work for the school, I work at the physical plant working with the grounds crew, it’s pretty hard work but it’s fun and the people I work with are a good group of guys so I don’t have any problems with it, plus im getting paid. My whole thing again like I said is playing baseball and that experience hasn’t been all that bad at all, our team isn’t doing as good as I would have liked but it can’t all be perfect. I had a really bad experience at my first school I attended with baseball and trust me nothing could be as bad as it was there and hopefully nothing ever will be! So far I have learned a lot At Union College, I think all the professors are very good compared to any place I have been before. This year is by far the most knowledge I have acquired. This is my third year of school and believe I have learned more this year than I have the other two years combined! I think attending college has changed me by many ways, one thing is that it really teaches you to grow

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