The Importance Of My Future College Life

As I reminisced my carefree days in high school it made me extremely happy yet melancholic sometimes. Happy because of the random thoughts and memories I had in my entire stay in high school while sad because I knew that those memories and experiences I had before will not be likely to happen again in College. However, the most significant thing that I planned and prepared the most is my future College life. From my first year in high school up to the fourth year, I seriously studied and actively joined extra-curricular activities since I promised to myself that I will graduate high school with honors so that I could get scholarship and study in a good university someday. All of my hardships and efforts in high school ended well because I passed

In this essay, I will tackle about how I adjusted in college academically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Basically, college classes are not much more difficult than high school classes. The only significant difference is that much of the activities in the classes are done out of the four corners of the classroom. For instance in my laboratory class in Environmental Science, we did our lab around the Ateneo campus; we took pictures of the trees, plants, insects and other things that our professor require us to do. In addition, on my English 11 class, we did our feature article topic brainstorming and documentation outside the Ateneo campus. In college, classes are usually three hours per week. For instance, during my M-W-F classes, the duration of the classes is only an hour while in the T-Th classes the duration is one and a half hour. If I would compare this to high school class schedules, college has more breaktime than high school where the

College is also great because it let us to be ourselves. I remembered in Orientation Seminar (Orsem), I had observed how college students were so energetic and genuine with their personality. I found out that college life is so happy. I joined organizations such as Ateneo Gabay and Atone Mathematics Society. In Ateneo Gabay, I joined the tutoring team whereas we will teach kids in Industrial Vallley Elementary School in Marikina about Math and English. As a scholar, it is my way of giving back my bountiful blessings that I had received from Office of Admission and Aid while in Ateneo Mathematics Society; I actively participated in facilitating events and joined seminars about Mathematics. I am a Math major and AMS helped me a lot to hone my skills in Math and I found my true home in AMS. The two organizations, AMS and Ateneo Gabay improved my character as a shy student to an active and responsible