Essay About University Experience

Colleges and universities exist to foster young minds, challenge their abilities, and further their journeys towards meaningful careers. That is exactly what I had always expected and hoped to encounter when I began my university experience, and I knew that I was completely prepared for what would undoubtedly be a difficult but rewarding academic career. Growing up with five siblings, four of them older than I am, I was raised to love a challenge, intellectual or otherwise: never has a day gone by in our household that didn’t have a lengthy debate on politics, ethics, or both, with no fewer than six different positions being argued for. Never having a shortage of rivals can be tiring, but we’ve learned from each other that, if nothing else, a challenge always presents opportunities for improvement. My upbringing also heavily emphasized the importance of self-sacrifice for the greater good. As the son of a pastor, I saw my parents dedicate their lives to

I have come to fully appreciate the need for a university to suit the student, to be the best place for any given student to pursue his or her goals. My experiences at VWU, while not exactly what I had envisioned for my college experience, have narrowed my focus and clarified what is most important to me in my academic career; they 've shown me what I didn 't know I needed from a school. Certainly, I could remain at VWU, cruise through another three years and earn my degree relatively painlessly, but that would mean sacrificing the most precise version of my goals and academic ideals, and I believe it would not be as intellectually satisfying as a more focused degree from a school with a more rigorous philosophy program which could allow me to combine my two favorite