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Freshmen Year: Not What I Expected....

College

 

It will please some of you to know that I almost started my first blog post by titling it with an expression that many college students become immune to using after they've missed their first exam BUT I'll digress from using such explicit language.  

Welcome to Sophomore Year! This blog was inspired by a Thurgood Marshall College Fund Student Ambassador Interview I had with Photographer/Videographer/Journalist, a well-rounded, Erica Singleton. As we sat in the dorm where I work as a residential assistant and discussed my experience at the 2011 TMCF Leadership Institute, Erica began by saying "So, tell me a little about yourself." 

CRAP! This may be the hardest statement to respond to. Well..."Hi my name is Kelsi!" That's always a great way to start, right? Here I am, at the prime of my college career and I am being interviewed about an experience that fell right into my lap. Like the saying "to know me is to love me" well "to know me is to know how much I hated college until Sophomore Year." 

I dare not leak out the entire interview for the sake of reader anticipation. As Erica and I sat there I had to figure out quickly how I would make this interview personal yet interesting.

"So can you believe I hated this school the entire first year?" 

That statement led the rest of the conversation between the two of us and from it developed, Sophomore Year! 

It wasn't until my second year at Savannah State University (I will refer to my school as SSU in all other post) that I finally figured out what I wanted to do when I graduated before I graduated and how I was going to achieve it.

Sophomore Year will provide life lessons, advice & tips on surviving the college experience. Enjoy!