The MU Experience

It's funny how everyone says that college is the time of your life, and how it's the one place where you will meet and make all of your lifelong friends. If that's the case, that what happened with me?!?!

For me, Monmouth is the place where I get my education. It's not the place I party (not that I party, because I don't...it's against my lifestyle you could say), it's not the place I turn to when I'm bored and need something to do, it's not even the place I go to to meet up with my friends. Since I transferred in, I've always treated Monmouth (as well as my education) as if it were my career. Even though my education, which means Monmouth University, is a big part of my life, it isn't all of it.

I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm a commuter student. My life does not revolve around Monmouth and the happenings at Monmouth University. I have a whole life outside of school that people don't think I have. And as far as friends are concerned I've made my lifelong friends while in high school. I gotta say though, I lucked out there!

In many ways I think of all of this as something good, because it has shown me that there is more to life than just college. Also, because of it I'm not dependent on Monmouth University. For example, as scary as graduation is (I think it is for everyone, and anyone who tells you differently is a total liar!), I'm not afraid of life outside of college, because in many ways I've alreay had so many experiences outside of college, or a college campus, because I don't live on one.

I guess, you're probably thinking that I didn't have much of a college experience. But in fact I did. I feel that college is what a person makes of it. If you plan on making your college experience all about lifelong friends, and getting smashed with those lifelong friends than that's your own college experience. For me, the college experience was coming to a good school, and getting the best education that I could possibly get. I got that from Monmouth. Overall I had some great, some good, and even a few not so good professors while at Monmouth. I've also experienced a lot of change. I think I've changed a lot for the good since transferring into Monmouth. Above all I got the education and the skills to go out into the work world once this college bit is done and over with.