College Through My Eyes

When I think of the word college, I start to freak out. The idea of so much work that I have no free time pops into my head and I start to get worried. I could say that most first year college students feel the same way. In my Inquiry class, I learned that college isn't so different from high school. You basically have to do the same amount of work, but you just have the majority of it outside of a classroom as opposed to doing most of your work in class. None of us really know what college is going to be like until we experience it for ourselves, but this isn't the only thing that comes to my mind when I think about college. I also think about what I want to accomplish for myself in my first year. I would love to be more outgoing. I am such a shy person, and when I am around the right people, I tend to let myself express myself more, and worry less about what people are thinking of me. I went to a small high school. We didn't have all the activities like sports games and all the clubs that they have here, so I really want to take advantage of those and get the full college experience. I hope that by going to school at SCSU, I can learn the skill and gain the independene that I will need to go farther away next year so that I can major in what I truly want to be, a Veterinary Technician. When I was 5, I had said that I wanted to be a teacher, and until two moths before college started, that was true. But then I realized what I was really passionante about, animal. This affects a lot of my decisions that I will make this year becuase I don't want to get too involved, and then have to leave it all. The only think I can hope for is that my first year will go as good as I hope.