Tyler Yegerlehner
English 111 .027
Final Essay
12/12/07

My First Semester

My first semester at the University of Southern Indiana has been a good one. I like all of my professors except my Public speaking teacher. I still manage to keep mainly C’s without doing homework or studying. The only thing that has been bugging me about my time here has nothing to do with the actual work. I just feel as if I’m missing out with on the real college experience.

History and English are actually really funny at times and it helps to keep me focused and interested in the class. That’s actually a really hard problem for me because I think I have ADD but I never had it looked into. All my teachers growing up thought I had it but my mom for some reason wouldn’t believe them. Also my procrastination habits have been at an all time high mainly because college just isn’t like high school. During math class, I would either sleep or read and that truly hurt my understanding of the course. I’ve been trying to play catch up ever since. My efforts on that haven’t been my highest priority though. I play a lot of video games on the computer. My favorite one is World of Warcraft though and that takes up a lot of my time.

College isn’t supposed to be about just the work you do there, but it’s supposed be your whole lifestyle. See the problem is that as soon as I’m done with my classes for the day at USI, I go home and hang out with my best friends from high school. So I’m not really spending any of my free time doing any activities at the school. I haven’t gotten involved in anything here. I haven’t really made any new friends. I know that I could easily if I tried but it’s so much easier to just go home, call Babs, and do something for the night.

Don’t get me wrong. USI is a great school if you don’t live right next to it with your dad. It has plenty of great facilities and programs but I just feel that if I was to move away for college I would get the experience I’m looking for. My mother and I have recently been talking about this move and she agrees that it’s a great idea. I suggested a move to the University of Florida because that is where I was born and it would be great to be there again. And plus it’s in Florida. All I’ve been able to think about lately is moving to Florida.

I’ve accepted getting average or even worse grades, but my parents can’t really. This move for them would be more of shaking me up and getting me away from all the distractions at home like my friends, video games, and other things of that nature. It would definitely have the desired effect. I would be able to just lounge about at home and accomplish nothing. I would eventually go crazy if I didn’t do something. So the only thing left to do would be homework and trying to make friends.

I just feel that USI is not the place for me. I like going to school here but it’s not because of the school itself. It’s close to home and I’d be really scared of a move to someplace like Florida. But I think I’m finally ready to do it. The plan is to transfer there for fall semester of 2008. I think USI has been a great introduction into some of the responsibilities I will need to be able to handle but it just isn’t everything I want in the four years of my life I’m going to college.