My College Life Journey

I want to write and share about my college life journey here. I thought the pandemic will never allow me to experience the fun and excitement. I am now currently a second-year student taking Bachelor of Secondary Major in English. This is my first choice in the course selection I submitted before. I have certainly no regrets entering this path in my life.

When I was young, I always play and pretend that I'm the teacher in the group. I will let my fellow playmates to sit down and I will be the one to discuss in front of them. I don't know why I love it so much but maybe because I admire the teachers so much during that time. For me, they are the supreme people I would like to be one day. Now that I grew up, I still love teaching but sometimes I constantly ask myself the questions about the struggles of every teacher around this world.

I am a person with introvert personality but unlike the other introvert, I am not afraid to talk. In fact I love talking so much. I love sharing ideas and I love exchanging topics with other people. I can say that I somehow overcome my own comfort zone because way back, I was totally socially anxious. I have this fear of talking to other people and a lot of anxious thoughts are running through my head. But now that at in my college, there's no such thing as being socially anxious for me because I really have to be friendly and approachable because this is very important to the field I'm studying.

I met some amazing college friends along the way. This is what I love about going back to the traditional way of learning, you will making friends with the people. It is really fun to share knowledge, learnings and struggles together. You won't feel alone in your burden because you know that your classmates are also struggling and you must help each other in order to survive.

I just found out that most of my classmates chose this field because it's their last option or they have no choice. I feel sad hearing about that but as I can see, they are slowly loving the course they chose. I understand that most people in college chose practicality over passion and I really have a big respect to those people who are not giving up believing on their dreams.

I had no idea that in college, your classmates would be different. Every semester, you will meet new people, which is I really like a lot. As much as I want to make this group of friends as my squad in college, I think it would be harder because every semester the class lists change and it's not bad at all. It's okay if I won't have a squad, I am happy making friends every semester and it feels like a short-term group collaboration. It's really fun though. I don't forget people, I always remember them and I am not a person who is unfriendly. I am friendly more than I ever knew especially now in my college, I make friends easily.

Overall, if I would describe my course, it is not easy. You have to be really confident. You have to be fluent in public speaking. You have to be a great writer. You have to be a great communicator and most of all, you must have the cheerful personality. You must know how to communicate to different types of people. I know other people look down to the education courses but I don't see any reason to see it below the others. In fact, it's just similar to the field of engineering, medicine and accountancy. There's no superior course, everything is different and valuable at the same time. I know that I won't be in this field if this path is not really for me and I believe that I am destined to be here. Teaching is one of the most noble things in this world and it is such a pleasure to become one day.

September 19, 2022

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