Before I started college I really wondered if it was going to be like in the movies, big lectures, frats/sororities, making friends, tiny dorm rooms, and partying every night, In reality for me it wasn’t like that at all, I was a commuter so that cut down a lot of the “traditional” college life activities. I would drive to the University of Green Bay every day, so I never got to experience dorm life. The first day of school I actually had a class with twenty students, so that answered my curiosity of wondering if all my classes would be lectures. This to me was a sense of relief because I can have one on one conversations with the professor. Since I’m a commuter I realized that everyone in my classes already had their cliques, I thought it was going to be hard to make friends or even start a conversation, but in reality, everyone is really nice and welcoming.
Overall I expected college to be this judgmental place where people are always loaded with homework and stressed out while consuming a lot of caffeine. But actually it’s not; everyone is very friendly and wants students to get involved. A lot of the time professors will assign a couple of assignments but they give students lots of time to work on them, since they know that we have outside life’s and other things that we need to do. In reality college did not match my expectations, it exceeded them. Everyone who is here like professors, advisors and, even students, they’re all here to help us succeed. This is just a piece of how my college journey has been, I still have two year to go.
source:Ivywise.com