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What It's Like Being A Transfer Student Your Senior Year

Missing out on my planned senior year.

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What It's Like Being A Transfer Student Your Senior Year
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The reason I transferred to Northwood was because I heard they were an all business school, so being a marketing and advertising major, I left Olivet. When I attended Olivet, I wasn’t learning much into my degree and wanted to make sure I would be able to survive in the real world with the education that I was provided with in college. This spring at Northwood, I got to join the soccer team. For my first semester at Northwood, I enjoyed how the classes all dealt with some sort of a business aspect, while at Olivet College I would be writing five to six written essays that were in cursive about microeconomics. Also, I would have had to remember over 500 terms for my business law two class, where in the first class I didn’t retain much. But now I am realizing that going into my senior year of college, I won’t be able to do things like I planned.

I won’t be able to see my best friends that I made at Olivet. I only got to visit them a handful of times while I was at Northwood just due to how busy we all were. But we were all able to get together on each of our birthdays no matter what. You think in college you will be able to graduate with your best friends, but I won’t be able to. I'll graduate from Northwood only knowing a handful of people, but I do plan on watching my friends from Olivet graduate.

I also will be very busy with soccer this fall. Usually this fall at Olivet with my friends we would enjoy what was left of the warm weather, watch the football games and have fun on the weekends. This fall I will be taking 19 credits, playing soccer and my weekends will be full of games. Don’t get me wrong, I love soccer with everything and enjoy all the girls on the team, but it just bothers me knowing that my best friends won’t be with me every day and I won’t be able to see them that often.

I don’t regret my decision of transferring. I love the education I am getting, and I actually feel like I am being prepared for the real world. Although I say I hate Olivet, I will never forget that I met my best friends there and that the memories we shared will never be forgotten. I would like to thank Natalie and Kelsey for always being there for me, and I am blessed to have them as my best friends. I hope to spend our last year (minus Kelsey) having fun and always to stay in each other’s lives after we graduate. I would also like to thank the Northwood women’s soccer team for making me feel welcomed this spring when I started training. I had fun my first semester at Northwood and hope to meet more people in my last year.

Go Comets.

Go Timberwolves.

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