In high school, college seemed to be the scariest thing that i could think of. Whenever i thought about it my stomach would immediately begin to spin in circles. Although i was ready to go off and be by myself and meet new people i was scared to death at the same time. I didn't know much about the college experience вќ and what i did know or thought i knew scared me. I pictured hard classes that i wouldn't be able to keep up with, people that wouldn't like me, long hikes to get to my classes, and horrible food. I couldn't imagine leaving the security of my own room, my own stuff where i want it, my friends that i've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car.

What was i going to do without my precious car? some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit seemed so much older and more mature. They all were thrilled at the thought of being on their own and not having to worry about their parents telling them what to do all the time. And sure, the thought was extremely exciting to me as well, but how would i survive without my family and friends and the things that had taken me eighteen years to get used to. I felt like going to college was pretty much taking everything that i knew and had grown accustomed to and throwing it up in the air. The worst part about it all was that i felt like i was the only one that actually thought about this.

After i thought i wouldn't be able to take the pressures anymore, i decided to approach my mom about the subject. I told her that i was a little scared and the thought of being on my own made me a lit length: 1974 words 5.6 double spaced pages rating: red free my college experience my decision to change schools from the university of north texas to come to penn state, leaving behind friends i had made was a difficult and long process. The months leading to the decision were filled with a lot of stress, and put strain on family and friends alike. Adding to the situation was the strain of my not having a car, and not being able to afford to fix my current one. Even with these factors pressuring me, i think i managed to make the right decision, and left unt, and came to penn state. My first day on the unt campus i was told i would have to redo nearly all of my previous college work. They had different history, language, and english requirements than did my community college from pennsylvania, and despite providing course descriptions, the classes that did match up, were named differently that theirs, so they denied transferring nearly all of my classes.

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After a fight, i resolved to take the classes that they required differently from my community college, for example, american history, where i had european history. Things were not fixed yet, but at least i was taking classes, and making progress.to further worsen things, i fell ill not a week into the semester. An initial strain of the flu had me running a fever of 102, and made me pretty much unable to do anything.

I managed to get over it in about a week, but then i got a secondary infection which once again raised my body temperature to 102+. He also prescribed antibiotics and cough medicine which got me on my feet again after another week. When i came back, professors were not willing to work with me at all, doctor’s note or no doctor’s note. My physics class even had a test the first day i was back, and i was forced to take it totally unprepared. I managed to catch up in all my other classes to the point where i could expect a c, but i never recovered from physics, and ended up needing to retake it, and having my gpa smudged. Towards the end of the semester, i went to make an appointment with the chairman of the computer science department.

I got there and asked, and got a reply of why do you need to see the chairman? i felt it was not a secretaries business why i needed to see the chairman, nor did i think he should be screening students like that. Despite my concerns, i let her know it was about transferring courses, and got a very curt reply of you cannot make an appointment to see the chairman for that. Shocked and angered at once again being blocked, i demanded to see someone about transferring classes, especially since they wanted me to go back and retake freshmen programming. They allowed me to see the one advisor that was left 1 for over 900 students! who agreed that most of my computer science classes should in fact transfer.

Finally, now everything seemed to be on track, and i registered for classes at the level i should have been. My linear algebra professor had never taught before in his life, and my data structures professor was from germany and spoke with a heavy accent which must have been east germen since i had never known a german with an accent like he had. Having not been with the university for any time, the data structures professor had no idea what to expect the class knew, and not feeling confident with his english, he just began teaching above the level everyone in the class. Stressed that i might get a bad grade in a computer science class, i began devoting more and more of my time to it. We approached him and informed him that we were not supposed to be learning that material and that was why the entire class was at a loss.