- In college there is so much freedom in terms of time, scheduling. - You're not only choosing
your own schedule, but you're choosing what
classes you want to take, what classes you don't want to take. - Around the time of freshman orientation we were given these booklets
with hundreds of courses that you could take from
dozens of different departments and programs and I thought
it would be a good idea to just grab a highlighter and
go through every single page and mark up every class that
sounded remotely interesting and at the end of this, when
I got to the end of the book, I probably had about
60 courses highlighted. Concepts of the cosmos,
sociology of the school, race in American, U.S. education. - The cool thing about college is that any given point, in any given day, you're going to run into
a really amazing person who's going to blow your
mind about something that you haven't thought about. - The support system is amazing. All the kids here are so passionate and they're so into their learning. I think that's what I find
different than high school. I'm not the one that's pushing and pushing and everybody else is just satisfied with doing what they need to graduate. - The students actually want to be there. That's a big difference
than high school to college. Everybody is really friendly. There's not as much cliques. Everybody is just cool,
nice, you can talk to anyone. That's the best thing about college. - Just being exposed to
new ideas, new people, new cultures. It's completely mind changing. - I work three jobs. I work at the admissions office, I work for my cultural center, and I work at my residential college. I studied abroad twice. Once in Madrid and once in London and I've had two internships, one in Minneapolis and one in Alaska, and over the course of
all these experiences there have been several instances where I'm just like I cannot
believe how radically different my life is now than it was before. - Because it's fun to look at Shakespeare when you're actually in London or it's fun to be able to dream something and then work for it
and then see it happen. - I cannot believe,
everyday I am so surprised by how much I have grown
since I was in high school. When I was in high school and
I was looking at colleges, I had no idea how I was going to fare. I didn't know how I was going to succeed. It seemed like this big thing so far away that everyone else was
in on except for me. I really found myself and I know who I am and I'm just so excited by continuing this intellectual journey. It's just something that's
very exciting to me. - Basically, it has allowed
me to dream much bigger, and not only dream much bigger, but also realize that those dreams are very possible as well.