College Life Essay

always been a really big factor in my life. Getting good grades had always been really important to me, that is until I started high school when it counted the most.The first two years of high school were definitely a big adjustment for me to get used to.Freshmen year I earned good grades, but my sophomore year grades weren't nearly what they should have been. I've never been much of a planner so to say I know what to do for certain with the rest of my life right now wouldn't be true.I think…

because the right people came into my life. Today, those people became the closest friends to me: my best friends. As a matter of fact, they became my second family. If it weren’t for them, I would still be the quiet, shy and self-hiding person I use to be. Luckily, the way life works with meeting new people, and new places gave me the opportunity to move on from who I once was to outshine myself into who I really am by accepting the right people into my life. It all started when we were once…

heading off to the next chapter of my life - college. Growing up I have faced many challenges, from the difficulties of growing up as a young African American man, to coming to terms with my own sexuality throughout high school. I primarily attribute my successes to my mother, an educator herself, who always inspired a culture of learning in my home. I never anticipated finding myself watching those friends who I once shared a stage with, now all graduating college without me. My younger self…

education can be beneficial to some college students. As I compare and contrast the article, “Should Everyone Go To College” to Freeman A. Hrabowski’s “Colleges Prepare People for Life”, I realized Hrabowski’s article has primarily focused on how higher education leads to many opportunities, and does not go in depth on the negative aspects of why college cannot be suited for everyone. In contrast, the article, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s “Should Everyone Go to College” contains both…

It’s been two days without eating anything, and I haven’t been able to keep any fluids down. I know that death is coming soon, so I look back at my life and look at my life successes. When I look back at my life, one thing comes to mind, education. School is not just a place to learn information but how to live and grow as a person. When I was younger I had 4 brothers and I knew that I wanted everyone get the same education that I had. So, I went to the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins…

In my elementary school years, my peers bullied me, reason being why I used to be very shy and antisocial; I still am an often quiet and reserved person. Despite that fact, there was something paradoxical of my own personality: I enjoyed performing. Whether it was on-stage with an audience or at home alone, I always had a thing for singing my guts out and dancing like nobody's watching. I still do, but I’ve only realized this now. It may have begun in third grade, when I danced on stage at my…

I blew off my homework, not because I was lazy, but because I thought that schoolwork was shallow, too insignificant for me, the vivacious intellectual, the dharma bum, the Zen lunatic wanderer. How could my teachers expect me to do homework when life around me was all so futile, so meaningless? I was sure that…

Obstacles In Life Life is full of obstacles. Some are hard to get over mentally, and some are hard to get over physically. But we must take the obstacles with a open heart and an open mind. I have had my fair share of obstacles in my short 14 year life, but two have stood out he most influential in my life then all others. In this essay I'll tell you about the two that have been influential moments in my life. When I was eight years old my mother had an acoustic neuroma, which is a brain…

president, teacher, film composer and international business woman. But as hard as I tried, nothing seemed to be the calling that I always wished to figure out. At this point in my life, I am expected to know where my life should be headed, and I feel like college will be the first stepping stone to doing that. My whole life I have been searching for contentment. I was the elementary school kid who had to try everything at least once to experience it for myself. My time after school and…

years, the possibilities are endless, but if I needed to sit down and decided or create a plot of life I would have to start with the beginning. In the next five years of my life I see myself as a person that will grow into a greater theatrically inclined person and striving to still be better, still see the limit is nowhere in sight. My plan is…