Coming to college (especially when you aren't sure what you want to do for the rest of your life) can be tough. But having a great professor can help you find yourself. Here's how having an amazing professor can change your life.
1. They inspire you
When you have a professor that inspires you, you have the motivation to want to find yourself. Suddenly, you're asking yourself: "What do I love?" "What am I passionate about?" Witnessing them talking and spreading knowledge about what they love makes you believe that you can find that passion too. Having a great a professor can inspire you to try new things. And whether you go through trial and error or you find what you love on the first try, you have the motivation to do the soul searching.
2. They give you confidence in your abilities
Having someone so educated and accomplished believing in your abilities allows you to believe in yourself. If someone with a Ph.D can believe in you, you can definitely believe in yourself.
3. You never want to skip class
A great professor can make you want to learn. You'll feel motivated to go to class and maybe learn something too. Having a great professor will make you become happy to walk into class because you know your time won't be wasted, and you'll leave feeling accomplished.
4. They open your view of the world
You learn so much in just your first year of college. Coming out of high school, you may have been close-minded or just simply ignorant of many things. Having a professor you actually want to listen to can change all of that. You'll really take in what they say, internalize it and apply it to your own ideals.
5. They can save your GPA
You know those mandatory math classes that every liberal arts major dreads? Or those mandatory literature classes every health science major loathes? Well, a great professor can change all of that. Having a professor who knows how to engage a student regardless of what they're teaching is a gift from above. They can make your hardest subject just click. Suddenly "Philosophy of Math" isn't so bad. Or maybe it still is—but not so much.
