College Memories but Ready for What’s Next

My favorite memory from being a student at Georgia Tech is the time I met my class friends for the first time. When I came to school my freshman year, I met my two best friends, Maggie and Rachel, who are still my best friends today. I remember hanging out with Maggie and Rachel and going to different places around Atlanta with them. I also met other friends that are also in my year, and I have so much fun hanging out with my friends.

My favorite social clubs or organizations that I joined are the Excel sports committee, Omega Phi Alpha (a service sorority), and the LGBTQ community. I like being a part of the Excel sports committee because we plan small sports games, go to sporting events, and host intramural games. I love being a part of Omega Phi Alpha because we do service events for our school, community, and nation. I like meeting all the people that are a part of my service sorority. I am so happy I met the other members and to have been a part of the sorority. They are a good part of my college life. I also like being a part of the LGBTQ community because there are a lot of different types of people who join, and I have met different people there who I became good friends with. These friendships have taught me that I can be myself. It is great to have a community like this because you can learn about each other and about different experiences people go through. Also, you can just have another community you can talk to and relate to.

I have a couple favorite classes at Georgia Tech. Some of my favorite classes were Psychology and Biology of Sex and Death, which are classes that I took with all kinds of Georgia Tech students. Psychology is one of my favorite classes because I was always fascinated by the brain and how it works. I am also interested in biology because it is the makeup of the world around us and how it interacts with everything. Some of my favorite classes in the Excel Program were Health and Wellness and Social Diversity. They are my favorites because Health and Wellness teaches us how to keep us and our bodies healthy, and Social Diversity teaches us about the differences between different kinds of people around the world and how they interact with each other.

The most important thing I learned from college is to consistently manage my time because when I’m too busy, it can be difficult to do everything I need to do. I learned to manage my time by having a schedule for each day of the week. I use Google Calendar to keep track of all the tasks and events I have every day of the week. It is a good life skill to manage your time with all the things you do in life no matter how big or small they are. I feel like I will have a job that I love doing and be successful because I know how to manage my time.

Some advice I would give to my freshman self would be to not make my life more complicated by adding so much drama on top of work and classes. I say this because from the time when I was a freshman to around junior year, I had a lot of relationship issues between friends and dating relationships that caused drama, which affected my health and how I focused in school and at work. I went from very low moments in my relationships that I had, but I came back from those low moments by learning from them and the mistakes that I made. One example of when it was not working was when we had multiple arguments and didn’t see the same things in the same way. I learned that in relationships people will have arguments and don’t need to see things the same way as you do.

The advice I would give myself is to always focus on my studies and to never give up, no matter how hard it gets. Choose classes or topics you are interested in or want to pursue in life. Find clubs that you are interested in being a part of, and it is always good to make more friends along the way. It is good to have mentors and coaches to help keep you on track for socializing, academics, and just being there for you as a friend. It is good to rely on your coach and mentor when you need help with something.

What I learned from this is that I should always be persistent with the goals I am trying to accomplish and that I can’t give up. I also learned from the beginning of college that often, you will have internships or jobs that you don’t really like, but I have learned valuable things from these jobs, like how to be persistent even if a task gets difficult, being a good worker, and to work well with others. Not liking an internship job is okay because then you figure out what career you want to do, and then you can find jobs related to the career you want to do.

What I want in the future is to be happy and enjoy life. What I would want as a career is to be an assistant teacher to elementary school children. The subject I would love to help teach is science. Being at Georgia Tech has helped me decide this is the right job for me because I got to experience some internships that were related to education.

I would also like to have a good and steady, committed relationship. My experience in college has taught me how to have and keep that type of relationship going.

The hardest thing about the Excel Program is to schedule your time and to be organized and also to get your work done on time. Another hard thing is to find what career you want to be in. It might change over the years. Also, to find what kind of internship you really like and enjoy doing.

The best things about the Excel Program are meeting coaches and mentors and having best friends. Also, another good thing is having the experience of college life and joining clubs and organizations.

The people who impacted my life in the Excel Program are my best friends, Maggie and Rachel, some of my coaches and mentors, my teachers in the Excel Program and outside, and also my Omega Phi Alpha sisters and student life community. They all have impacted my life in different ways. I could not get through college life without them.

The types of opportunities that I have in the Excel Program are being able to have a college experience, living on my own, doing my own chores, having coaches and mentors, meeting new friends, joining clubs and organizations, doing intramural sports, going to sports games, experiencing Georgia Tech classes, and having internship and jobs. I mainly get to have a great college experience and see what college is really like. I am so happy that I got the experience of being a college student with the Excel Program. I’m excited to graduate but not excited that I’m going to be out in the real world on my own. However, I feel ready because of everything I learned in the Excel Program.