Welcome To College Essay

A different town full of unfamiliar people, one of which you have to share a room with, new food and a completely different schedule than anything you have ever known; welcome to college. With all these changes, beginning college is bound to be a difficult transition. However, once accustomed to the new beginning, college can be a wonderful learning experience where you discover not only yourself, but skills that will be kept with you forever. Two of the many skills I have acquired are from the Husky Compact, acting with integrity and responsibility and seeking and applying knowledge. My daily schedule has allowed me to learn and adopt these skills. Along with many other college freshmen, I have never had a schedule where I could have multiple …show more content…
My declared major is biomedical science, however, as I have been sitting in my biology class it makes me want thoroughly learn the information and become a science teacher to give other people, like myself, an opportunity to become interested in all that science has to offer. This pursuit of expertise in a discipline is part of another aspect of the Husky Compact, seeking and applying knowledge. After taking a strengths quest quiz in my honors seminar class, I discovered that one my main attributes is that I am a learner. I love to learn, I love the process of learning; by knowing this, I can understand why I may want to become a teacher. My strengths quest also revealed that I am an achiever, which means that I have the drive to accomplish what I set my mind to, I am an arranger, as I enjoy managing variables to make a productive well-oiled machine, I am also deliberative and competitive. Now that I have realized my strengths, it is easy to apply them and see that they coincide with being a teacher. Knowing this is a strength in itself as I can understand how and why I do some things. This knowledge has further made me a more confident college