God is my Guide
When first going through the processes of deciding where to attend college, packing up most of my belongings and moving to a new place with all new people that were so different from where I grew up, I felt exactly like the description in Learn for the Love of God when it says, “I only knew that something exciting and a little terrifying was beginning” (Opitz and Melba 2). My actual expectations for the University of Northwestern, St. Paul were few, but my worries, questions and concerns seemed to be countless. Would college classes be too difficult for me? Did I make the right choice on where to go to college? Will I be able to be so far away from my family? Change is something that I am not very good at welcoming, so going …show more content…
Because it is true that I had very few real expectations for what my college experience would be like, there was very little that could have disappointed me. Unlike most people assume about students who decide to transfer, most my expectations were met. While, yes, there were a few things I wish were different, the lack of people on campus on the weekend, the strange meal plan style and a few teaching styles I wasn 't very good at embracing, overall I did like my school. I liked my classes, I loved my friends and the Christian community I was surrounded with, I even got the opportunity to work under two of the professors I respected the most, yet during the final months of my freshman year, something inside of me wasn 't sure I was meant to stay. I felt overwhelmed with a feeling of not belonging there anymore. This first made me feel sad and hopeless at times, but I didn 't know where exactly God wanted me to be instead, if it was a different college, to be at home for a year, or doing missions for a time, I really had no idea, but I begged God to show me His
When first going through the processes of deciding where to attend college, packing up most of my belongings and moving to a new place with all new people that were so different from where I grew up, I felt exactly like the description in Learn for the Love of God when it says, “I only knew that something exciting and a little terrifying was beginning” (Opitz and Melba 2). My actual expectations for the University of Northwestern, St. Paul were few, but my worries, questions and concerns seemed to be countless. Would college classes be too difficult for me? Did I make the right choice on where to go to college? Will I be able to be so far away from my family? Change is something that I am not very good at welcoming, so going …show more content…
Because it is true that I had very few real expectations for what my college experience would be like, there was very little that could have disappointed me. Unlike most people assume about students who decide to transfer, most my expectations were met. While, yes, there were a few things I wish were different, the lack of people on campus on the weekend, the strange meal plan style and a few teaching styles I wasn 't very good at embracing, overall I did like my school. I liked my classes, I loved my friends and the Christian community I was surrounded with, I even got the opportunity to work under two of the professors I respected the most, yet during the final months of my freshman year, something inside of me wasn 't sure I was meant to stay. I felt overwhelmed with a feeling of not belonging there anymore. This first made me feel sad and hopeless at times, but I didn 't know where exactly God wanted me to be instead, if it was a different college, to be at home for a year, or doing missions for a time, I really had no idea, but I begged God to show me His