College and furthering the Experience

My first taste of a college student was probably nothing more or less than anyone else’s. As most of us continuing our education beyond high school, I have come to realize it also comes with more of a work load compared to high school. The are in fact many differences between high school education and college education. When you are in college it is upon your shoulders to make sure you get everything done on time. On top of that you can not just get away with full filling the requirements of the task at hand, but that you must in fact go above and beyond. Now for me this has not been such a task as when I do anything worth doing, I do it to the best of my abilities. I believe there is no sense in going through life half assing anything worth while and rarely do I not do something above and beyond. I feel that college is really starting help open my mind to the possibilities I can create for myself rather than not continuing my education. At first I did find it rather stressful trying to get my homework done, mainly because I would try and do it all at once which in turn burned me out fast. So what I did to keep this from happening was I started to break up my tasks into day by day, and by accomplishing a more relative amount of work per day, I definitely increased my output and quality of my work. As more and more time has gone by, adding up to the days until the end of my first semester, I realize that college has began making more sense as to what is wanted from us. Now that I am more comfortable with everything I feel that I can in fact begin to enjoy my school and my peers more as a whole. From there I would like to address Oakland University. I in fact believe that Oakland University is a very underrated university and that it should get more recognition. Although I have never been to any other colleges, I do know others that went to my high school that go to other colleges, and from the work load, I definitely feel like you receive more for your money at OU. I am yet to venture out to see what kind of groups there are to interact with at my school however from clips I have seen of certain groups, I feel there is something for me to choose. In fact one group that has been brought to my attention was SIFE. This organization is about promoting students for free enterprise. This group works together to share knowledge and experiences along with leaderships skills to create a learning environment for its members to succeed in the business world. Another organization was the Formula SAE group. This group has especially grasped my attention and is now opened to not just engineering students but to business students and several other majors. I have always had a passion for cars and speed and this may be the chance to hop in the drivers seat.