大学生活自述英语优秀范文.doc

大学生活自述英语优秀范文

【大学英语写作】

The first three months of my college experience has taught me that when you leave the social atmosphere that once locked your identity in place, you shed unwanted skin, and develop the ability to reinvent yourself.

Since birth we have been following along a path that our parents carved out for us, not really knowing why we are here or who we are. By high school, we have been stapled into the social spectrum; our status is determined and hard to change; our friends have us down pat, and we as human beings have no more room to grow. Boom! High school ends and college begins. As our high school peers are no longer there to reinforce our previous social status and identity, a sense of security is ultimately lost. No one knows who we are in college. No one knows anything about us. It’s almost as if we are completely starting over, which to some, can seem exhausting while to others may feel exhilara-ting. While we break loose from our “safety box”at home, we finally get to write the chapters in our own book, so to speak.

College gives us the opportunity to completely turn around and look at things from a different point of view. Popularity in high school is irrelevant in college. My roommate wasn’t popular in high school. A girl who is popular and lives on the same floor told me. One weekend, some “popular”friends came up to visit the previous “popular”girl. My roommate stopped by to say “Hi”.

A few minutes later she decided to drink with them. And then my roommate returned with a “popular”guy, and they started talking and fooling around. That was about it, no big deal, but this was something that wouldn’t have

happened in high school. In college, the rules no longer apply, unless you allow them to. College sets no guidelines; we are on our own. We are reinvented. Forget the labels. It’s all bullshit. Get over it. You are now who you want to be.

Although reinvention is an important part of college, the establishing of our identity still remains to be achieved. In addition, our eagerness to fit in is still very present. We want the security we had in high school, but in a different way.

College is like an audition. You walk onto the campus and understand that no one has a clue about you. It’s all up to you. Your parents are no longer at your service, and independence is the name of the game. We are forced to make choices, and become our own thinkers.

Transformation through a person’s college experience doesn’t just happen right away. Being in college doesn’t automatically guarantee that you will change and move away from the social cliques in high school that might have left you trapped. In the beginning, I was still thinking like a high school student, trying to fit in, and finding friends that would be compatible with me. One night at dinner, I was eating with three girls from my floor. They weren’t exactly diverse individuals who really wanted to get to know me. But, out of habit, I found myself trying to be their friends. Then something hit me. I finally noticed that none of them cared about the real me. No one was even trying to talk to me, or listening to what I had to say. I was just immune to this social behavior, I guess. I was never really that popular, but of course, I wanted to fit in.

I was crying inside. It was a painful repeat of high school, and I felt that familiar fear of trying to be someone I simply was not. I thought to myself, “why?”Why do I care so much? If I acted myself, wouldn’t it be so much easier? Later that evening I was reading Chicken Soup For The College Soul and came across a