The Wonders of College

     My first semester of college is definitely not what I expected it to be, but it is pretty good. I love that my schedule is completely up to me and my classes are pretty interesting. At time my schedule is hard or weird to handle because of morning and night classes. Most of my classes are very intriguing and what I find interesting. The instructors are interesting and funny while being informative. The instructors keep the class involved rather than just dragging us through it. The way people explain college to be is not how it is for me. I like how the classes are set up and our plans are put straight out there rather than just going with the flow with what the teacher wants to do. One thing I regret is that I haven’t really stepped out and met a  lot of new people and I remain somewhat introverted. One thing I would like to change about being that way is to find something that makes me be more out there. Something that is very different and difficult at times is working online constantly. Grades are straight forward and can easily go up or down in college. 
    The challenges about college that are easy but hard is balancing your workload and free time according to your assignments. The time just seems to fly by no in like the blink of an eye and you can easily get behind in work. The workload varies from week to week and is getting pr aggressively heavier as the time passes and exams start. One thing that has been hard for me is the transition of feeling between high school classes to college classes. The textbooks tend to show more examples then content of reading which is good in the sense that you get to see how it is applied, but the explanation seems to be short and rushed instead of the full thing. As well as, not really knowing anyone in my classes and being one of the youngest in most of them too. Being the youngest is good in the way that people think I’m smart, but in reality I have to struggle through things just like them. I have to put a lot of my free time towards school work and it takes me hours just to get it sometimes.
    Junior College is only the beginning for me and I plan to go much further in my education to at least a Master’s degree. I am glad I ended up at Oxnard College because I don’t thin I was ready to be fully by myself at times, even though some days I long for that independence. In the future it will allow me to be more competitive towards job opportunities while being helpful financially. I want to be able not only to support myself later in life, but my family also. I believe that these little obstacles that may seem big now are only the beginning and are tests for greater things in life.