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Personal Statement: What I Hope To Gain From College

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What I hope to gain from college
From college I hope to gain experiences that will shape my life and also that will benefit me academically. I want to gain the right skills to help me get better for when I move to a university. I want to challenge myself by absorbing as much information possible during my two expected years. Being a good student is great. I don’t consider myself as the smartest one but rather I see myself as average. Being in school the entire year long surrounded by books, if it was just that what a boring year this would be! I also want to surround myself with great new friends, making awesome new memories that I will never forget. In college you meet with so many people with different characters, different cultures and personalities and so much more. Being different is not always a bad thing besides if we were all the same what a boring world this would be, learning from all of those different people will help me throughout my college years to not make …show more content…

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