Undergraduate / Four...three...two...one...Welcome to my college-life: Common App Transfer Essay [NEW]

Four...three...two...one...Welcome to college-life!

I arrived at the Saxion Hogeschol at Enschede completely ready to immerse myself in the college and town life.
Like many prospective college freshmen, I was excited to be moving far away from my home town, eager to experience bigger and better things, and thrilled to begin to live on my own. Everything was perfect, I have my own flat, because of the fact that the university do not offer campus housing, and I can speak the language perfectly.

However, now that I'm here, living the "college life," I can't say that all of my optimistic ambitions for my freshman year have been fulfilled. In fact, I have been outright disappointed with what the Saxion Hogeschol has offered me, or rather, has failed to offer me. I want to study in small groups of students and I want that the teachers know me. All this had they told me, have the Saxion Hogeschool to offer, but what was it:

I refuse to be in a lecture with over 120 students, and none of the teachers knowing my name, that was a really disappointed to me. Okay, I already have once in a week in one lecture only 16 students and that the thing that I like the most in my week. The teacher is a student from the sophmore year and he knows us all, we are in this classes like a big family we talking, discussing and laughing, that's great.

So was one of the bittersweet advantages I have gained by attending a semester at a university where I do not belong is a unique insight as to what is truly important to me in a great college experience. A few things I've learned on my travels through this surreal first semester of mine spent in Enschede: one, I want a smaller school.

Two, while I'm there, I want to be surrounded by people who work hard and play hard, not only the latter. And lastly, Enschede will never be my city. Normally I feel everywhere at home but Enschede is a city were many students live and so I don't can really forget for a few moments the university. You hear everywhere students talk about their subjects, their classes and their university, that is normally okay but even people who I know have no other topic than university. I want to study and live with people who are love their university, but that's the problem it is really hard to love this university when everybody around you is only scold about the Saxion Hogeschol.

I need a university that offers a wide selection of courses such as Dance and Arts, Journalism and Communication, Microbiology, and Hydrology because these majors are the ones that give color in this sphere. I love it to dance, I photograph to capture images that my mind can't perceive, I blog to keep memories that my brain can't retain, I socialize to interact with people around the world, and I wanted to do research on bacteria.

College is the place where I can understand what my mind is capable of doing, however, It takes time to decide, seconds to talk, hours to solve, days to accomplish, and years to be labeled but I am negative that the Saxion Hogeschol can't help me to achieve my goals in matter of years.

Once I have transferred to a new school, I hope that I will be able to feel a sense of belonging to my community and that I get the opportunity to work volunteer, I love it to help people and to be someone how makes things happen or better. In addition, I hope to achieve the feel that I have found a second home that comes with being in safe and beautiful area, and the ability to meet new people who really proud about their university and who love their college-life. Most importantly, I want to obtain the sense of pride one has from attending a school that they love. I want to be excited to go back to school after breaks. I want to be proud to be a student at the university I choose, and I want to be happy.

I would pleased for advises

Writing Feedback / Different countries, different work settings [2]

"I'm sorry to have to tell them this, but with this work ethic they are completely out of place here," came from the mouth of my teacher Ruud Greven recently. Statements of this kind I have become accustomed, even if it has no one told me so directly.

Well at this rate is expected of the student which the teacher is to understand this affected flinches or at least looks a bit guiltily. But this does not apply to me. Why, simply because I hear this sentence from the mouth of my teacher because of a property that I've noticed so far in any of my fellow student, namely the ambition of a real good grade. I got a nine-namely back for my exam, which is roughly equivalent to the Netherlands at a scale of one to 10 a A.

Well because in the Netherlands, later in your job search just one that you have received his bachelor's and not with what notes I feel almost more like a parallel universe that has been in my entire life I never told a teacher that my work ethic is wrong. Quite the contrary, my good performances and above all my will power my teachers were always impressive.

One of my classmates whose motto fasting times together as follows:
A pass is good A= good and good is almost an A +.
My motto is, however, is the following:
Pass is not an A + A + is bad and bad is almost five = F.

What then has brought me to the Saxion Hogeschool is still choose it is a modern university with everything which a student can only dream, small classes, large lecture halls flooded with light ...

But I see now that makes me break this work ethic, I love to learn and really excel in my performance, but precisely because of these achievements I've become an outsider. In a course with two hundred students, where only two other girls and boys only, also to be the best yet makes me a freak.

I do not want to be more and my guidance counselor Dr. Marjan Weehout the same time, Dean is my university told me yourself that I should better go to university, because otherwise I'm really broken. She told me I would just simply too much typical German with my ambition, my work ethic, my punctuality and my reliability.

Furthermore, would the Saxion Hogeschool has one drawback for me because many do not even regard as such. No student is really proud of his department or at the Saxion, rather the opposite is called the name of the Saxion never really proud, it's just just a name. In the Netherlands, the universities are obliged to accept any of the bidding, which not really a true relationship. No one is to have pride to get a place at the Saxion.

And precisely for this very reason there is no of students launched volunteer organization, or even projects, why should one has to do the something finally work and to find I had to unfortunately seems the majority of my fellow students to have an allergic reaction because this in words voluntary or extra work always take to their heels.

Yes, my university for me is not the study's paradise has become what I had hoped for, but to Germany in completely overcrowded classrooms where it is normal that sometimes you can find an hour before the lecture no space I will not.

And therefore I have decided after careful consideration that it was my goal is a place in the United States of America to get, because there I hope for a study area in which I feel very comfortable and I will accept them the way I am. A study environment where commitment and performance will be worth something.

Simply a study environment where I feel at home where I feel accepted, can I get involved in volunteer and in which I do not feel like a freak tolerated.

I wish professors who encourage me, I want to own creative, innovative, and unconventional ideas can develop and produce mainly individuals and no moderation. I wish for lively discussions and no chalk and talk, I would like to be able to represent my own opinion and not the opinion and view the word as the teacher must act.

I want to find a study group and sit in the library with others and learn using books, and not be there because we need a large desk with computer. None of my fellow students borrow books from, or is the effort to learn more than is necessary or prepare for the next lecture.

And all this hope and I expect from my dream university.

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