Recommended for you

Start writing a post

Student Life

An Open Letter To My University

There aren't enough ways to say thank you.

Amber Burton

Aug 08, 2016

Nicholls State University

Nicholls State University

To the university that changed my life,

Thank you. There aren't enough words to thank you for the impact you have made on my life, from the moment I walked on campus for the first time as a high school junior, until now coming back for my third year of college. I never expected that a university could have such a large impact on my life. The lessons I have learned and the memories I have made are all thanks to you. Without my university I wouldn’t be the person I am today. This letter could go on for hundreds of pages if I mentioned every reason I am thankful for my university, but I will cut it down to my top three.

Thank you for letting me be myself.

Coming into college, I thought I knew who I was. I mean I was the girl that loved sports and never played. I was the smart girl and I had a lot of friends. I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life and where I was going. I can honestly say now that I didn’t even know the beginning of who I was. In the past two years, I have grown so much and I owe it all to my university. I have never felt judged for the person I am and I have always felt like I belonged.

Thank you for pushing me out of my comfort zone.

I’m from a small town. I went to a small high school where I knew everyone and never lived more than five minutes from my MawMaw. College was the scariest adventure I ever began, but I did it. I’m conquering it. I was pushed past my comfort zone and it has taught me how strong I truly am. In the past, I never thought I would be doing the things I am now, involved in what I am now, or fulfilling the dreams I am now. I have learned that nothing worthwhile comes easy and that’s OK! Life truly begins outside of your comfort zone and my university pushed me all the way out.

Thank you for giving me the tools to be my best self.

My university has given me every opportunity to better myself. I know that in the future, when I succeed, I will look back and know where it all started. I will look back and know that the friends I made and the professors I had changed my life forever. Each person at my university has taught me something. From joining my sorority, to meeting my mentors, to giving me opportunities to work in the field I love, I will never be able to thank this school for all the tools it has provided for me.

College is a scary place. It’s the first time you are away from home and have no one to tell you what to do. It really is a brand new chapter in life where you truly do get to start over. You walk in with all these big dreams not really knowing if anyone will actually believe in you. I have found the people that believe in my craziest dreams. From the second I walked on campus, I knew that it was going to be my future home. However, I didn’t realize that the things that happened on that campus would change me as a person and change my life forever. I will never be able to thank my university, the people I’ve met and the people that have helped me enough. At first I was a part of the university, my university has become one of the most important parts of me.

Report this Content

This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.

Health and Wellness

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Grand Canyon University

370

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash

The first two weeks of classes have come to an end and they have been anything BUT easy. It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Although this seems like the best solution, it is also the easy way out. Take it from the girl who took basically a whole week off from her life because she just could not handle everything that was being thrown at her. This caused her to feel extremely lonely and even more stressed out for being behind in classes that JUST began.

Keep Reading...Show less

self-pity

Entertainment

11 Things We Learned From Brooke Davis

"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?"

St. Thomas Aquinas College

206

"She was fiercely independent, Brooke Davis. Brilliant, and beautiful, and brave. In two years she had grown more than anyone I had ever known. Brooke Davis is going to change the world someday, and I'm not sure she even knows it." - Lucas Scott, An Unkindness of Ravens

Brooke Davis of the hit show One Tree Hill was the it girl - she had it all, or so we thought. She started out as a stuck-up, shallow, spoiled, head cheerleader who didn't have her life together. She slept around a lot and loved to party - sounds like your typical high school teenager right? Wrong. B. Davis had so much more to offer. Caring, loyal, and outspoken, she has taught us some valuable lessons throughout the 9 seasons that OTH was on the air:

Keep Reading...Show less

brooke davis

Relationships

11 Signs You Have An Honorary Roommate

Make yourself at home, why don't you?

Appalachian State University

2065

Rachel Zadeits

For some of us, coming to college was the first time we ever had to share a room. It was a big change, but a fun one. As you meet more and more people over the course of your college career, it seems to be a pattern that you will at some point have that one friend that doesn't live with you, but acts like they do. We call those people, "Honorary Roommates" and here are 11 signs you have one in your life.