Pink Floyd's Outside the Wall and My Experience at NIU

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There are many ways to interpret “The Wall” by Pink Floyd. I have never listened to this artist before and these songs are not my type of music. However, while listening to the different songs listed, the one that stood out to me the most was Outside the Wall. As a student at NIU, I truly do feel that NIU has robbed me as an individual by making me brick in the wall, but I would rather be Outside the Wall. There are countless guidelines and requirements that are strongly holding me back from breaking the wall and being outside of the wall.
NIU was not the college I intended to go to, but I did because the education program was good. I felt like the education system was not what I had expected. Being in an Asian school for my whole life and then transitioning to an American school in Illinois was a drastic change. When I first came to NIU, I felt like I didn’t fit in until I found the Asian community. The Asian population was quite big and consisted of the Taiwanese Student Association, Korean Student Association, Hong Kong Student Association, Thai Student Association, Philippines Students Association, Viet Student Association and Chinese Student Association. However, as time went by, each of the student associations and the population of Asians were disappearing. I do not know if NIUs admissions office had anything to do with accepting Asian students, but it is very sad to see the Asian population decreasing and to the point where it may be non-existent. I would like to see the population of Asians to increase in the years to come so that the Asian community will be back to when I first came to NIU.
Pink Floyd had many main points in his songs, and one very important one is that he did not believe the British education system...

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...st like in the song, “The Trial” where the band plays and people chant, “tear down the wall” then we hear the sound of a wall actually getting wrecked in the background. Since I have finally enrolled in my classes for next semester and will be ready and finally graduating, I wish to no longer have any surprises from NIU. I pray that everything will go smoothly and that nothing will suppress my individuality and creativity anymore. Let me finish with a big bang and learn useful things that I will need when I graduate so I can bring to my work field to be the best that I can be. I’ve seen numerous people drop out of NIU because they did not like what NIU’s program has done to them. But I know I will succeed to overcome what NIU has become and I will break down the wall. The day I find hope will be the day of my graduation where I will finally be “Outside the Wall”.

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