In the midst of ending this quarter strong, I am faced with a struggle that most students deal with during their college career. Although I initially applied to UCLA as a pre-sociology major, I have not been following the pre-requisites for my respective major. Instead, I decided to be undeclared in order to follow a…
Before entering the realm of higher education, I had the faintest idea of what college would be like. I knew that for the first time in my life, I was on my own. By choosing to attend the University of California, Los Angeles, I was given a new set of responsibilities, freedoms, and an unfamiliar…
I believe my first semester in college was a time to test my limits to prepare myself for the next four years. I did not realize this until now. I tested many different limits last term; from how much work load I can handle, how many anxiety attacks I can handle from my boyfriend and…
College has not been easy. Although it is my second semester attending college, the fact that every 5-6 months your schedule, your professors, and classmates change is hard to handle. I was barely becoming used to my past professor’s way of grading, lecturing and rules when I am now in complete different classrooms with new…
In the fall of 2014, I started my first semester at the recently accredited California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. Needless to say, it has already exceeded far beyond my expectations. The levels of music education here are strictly accustomed to the level of the musician. Unlike high school, where most teachers don’t even care if…
The beginning of college was a great transition for me, knowing that I was moving to a completely new city. Not only because it was going to be a new and different environment but also because I was going to be seven hours away from my family, who have always supported me and cheered me…
My first quarter at UC Davis was a bit of a struggle. One of my classes was pretty hard since we were doing entirely new and different things like synthesizing theories and then using your synthesized theory to come up with a new theory. That was an entirely different concept for me and I struggled…
The scholarships I received helped me in a dramatic way, the only thing that was on my mind was to graduate high school. But, then I started receiving scholarships and was determined that I should take advantage of the opportunity I was receiving, therefore, I decided to go to college. It was a big accomplishment…
Days, weeks, and months have passed and I survived my first college quarter. College life is so different from how movies make it seem. In movies, all they show is that college is just to party and do all the crazy things you never could because you were under your parents’ rules. Ever since I…
In the beginning of this quarter I was a little depressed, because I really messed up last quarter with my academics. That has not stopped me from looking at this as a lesson that will help me understand that you will always need to ask for help even though you think you know everything. Personally…