Post 4: Fist College Experience

My first day in college was absolutely unexpected. Honestly, I was expecting classes to be a lot harder and more intimidating. I pictured college as a place where I would have to know everything before I even went to class, and that's what made me nervous. After my first class was over, I realized that college was nothing like I expected it to be, and that I actually enjoyed being in such classes and environment. Its ironic how my biggest dream since I came to America, which was to attend college in the U.S., was also the experience I was so nervous about. The freedom that you have as a college student helps you realize that time management is a lot more complicated when its all up to you. I guess you could say that attending college really is the time when you start "living in the real world." Budgeting your money, spending time wisely, and becoming a non-procrastinator becomes mandatory in college, it has to become a routine if you want to succeed. I'm looking forward to those challenges that can  lead me to a successful academic experience, which is my major goal in college.

Post 3: "Once More to the Lake" by E.B.White

E.B White created a really vivid and descriptive image of what it is/feels like to re-live a memory, especially the ones from childhood that can mark a person's life so deeply. Even more, when he  realizes that it has become a tradition; that the memories he had lived with his dad are now existent between him and his son. If I'm honest, I have to admit that I cannot relate to the wilderness or nature described in this story. I did not get to experience to visit a place like that. I have been in the wilderness, as I like to call it, but it is nothing related to what E.B White describes. In my opinion, the author describes being with his son and going back to the place where he used to go with his dad as a child; as something exciting, captivating, and to be proud of. I feel like the theme of the story is that a single memory or experience can thoroughly impact people's lives and adapt them to who they are and will be as a person.