Personal Narrative: My Post Secondary Life

My post secondary life had been a life changing event for me. I went to Stony Brook University in New York and lived on campus. I had never lived away from my family before. It was hard at first but then with college life one gets busy. We had to choose our own classes at our own schedule according to our own interest. I also had

Here I quickly learned that we no longer will be spoon fed by our teachers. Studying had to be done on your own mostly. Some of the times we didn’t even know our professors personally. The lectures had at least 500 to 600 students for a class and these classes were offered at least twice a day so if you miss a lecture, you could still catch it at later time. If we needed to ask any questions outside the class, we had to go to professor’s office hours in which either the professor or their teacher assistant would help us.

You meet with total strangers and they become your friends forever.You have to be used to being in a class of 1000 students and you are not “spoon fed” like in highschool where you know what to study for your quizzes and tests. Not all the classes were lecture based, there were some small classes as well. I found all my professors to be passionate about teaching. One of the professor that influenced me the most was my English professor. I was in a class which was in between an ESL and a regular class. Every week he would made us write a paper and then he would make us read it out loud in front of the class. He would correct our mistakes right there. I think I learned so much more in that class than that of which I learned in my other 3