This semester is my last semester at SUNY Oneonta and I have been looking forward to this milestone for a while.However, I do sometimes contemplate about what I wish I did during my time at SUNY Oneonta, especially now that I am about to graduate.Here are some thoughts I am having during my last semester at SUNY Oneonta.
1. I wish that I did not try to take an LSAT prep class last fall. That way, I could have committed more time to becoming better at performing at poetry slams. Maybe I would have even been one of the people to go with the Poetry Slam team to Chicago for the National Poetry Slam Competition in April.
2. I wish that I practiced my guitar more when I actually had free time during the semester. That way, I might have been good enough to try out for a band. Maybe I could have even started a band. Now, I will probably never know.
3. I wonder how I am going to be able to manage all of my debt that I will have after I graduate. I worry about this because I not only have student loan debt from SUNY Oneonta, but also from when I went to Mohawk Valley Community College. I am sure that I will be able to get a job somehow, but I am worried about how many jobs I might have to work just to repay it all.
4. I wonder if choosing to major in Sociology was actually a good decision. It seemed like it was since I was able to transfer over nearly all my credits. However, if I want to get a good paying job to be able to make a decent living and pay off my debt, I would almost definitely have to receive at least a Master’s Degree.
5. Last but not least, I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I started at SUNY Oneonta as a freshman instead of as a transfer student. Don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at community college. Even so, I would have had more time to develop friendships, accumulate community service hours, and enjoy the clubs that I joined rather than have only two years to do all of those things. After all, transfer students typically have less time to assimilate into the campus community and must exert more effort into developing a sense of belonging than students who started their education at SUNY Oneonta as a freshman.
Ultimately, I cannot change the fact that I am a transfer student nor can I turn back time. Despite what I wish I could change, I enjoyed my past two years at SUNY Oneonta and I would not trade them for anything. Now, it is time to get back to the grind, complete my last semester, and make my experiences and hard work at SUNY Oneonta translate into success in the real world.
