The four years of college seem to fly by, but when students look at old freshman pictures of themselves it seems so long ago.\u00a0 Making it through college is an impressive feat in, especially if you can do it all at the same school.\u00a0 No one stays the same throughout all four years of school, and that\u2019s a good thing.\u00a0 Change brings new opportunities, new attitudes, and new outlooks on life in general.<\/p>\n
One big form of change that occurs in college is a physical transformation.\u00a0 A student goes from being an 18 year kid to a 22 year old adult.\u00a0 When talking to former Head Men\u2019s Soccer Coach Micah Middendorf he stated \u201cI have seen kids come in weighing 110 pounds and leave weighing 160.\u00a0 Lifting, fitness, and eating all combine to make kids become adults in their four years here.\u201d\u00a0 He of course is mainly talking about the athletes, who probably do undergo the biggest physical changes on campus.\u00a0 They start learning how to eat and lift weights properly, combined with what sport they play that can do a lot.\u00a0 I personally have gained 30 pounds since my freshman year, mostly muscle but some of it is thanks to the readily available food on campus.<\/p>\n
People grow beards, change their hair, get tattoos, and anything else you can think of is done in college.\u00a0 Students are free from their parents for the first time ever and now get to make decisions on their own.\u00a0 Sometimes those are good decisions, other times the decisions can be questionable, but that\u2019s what makes college fun.<\/p>\n
According to University of La Verne \u201c50%-70% of students will change their major once in college and most will change it 3 times before they graduate.\u201d\u00a0 People change what they want to do in life, and that is to be expected.\u00a0 What a student wants to do coming out of high school as an 18 year old many times has nothing to do with their wants or interests as a 22 year old.\u00a0 When talking to Academic Advisor Katheryn Hill she commented that \u201cstudents change everything in college, from their major to their hairstyle, it all changes.\u00a0 Most kids mature throughout college, and by that I mean they become smarter with their personal and life decisions.\u201d\u00a0 The maturity factor is big.\u00a0 If a student wants to be treated like an adult, they have to treat others as one also.<\/p>\n
College is a time of change, sometimes the change doesn\u2019t go your way but that\u2019s what life is about, getting up after you get knocked down.\u00a0 Whether or not you realize it, you are so much different that you were as a freshman, and if you don\u2019t think so just look at a few old photographs and smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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