My Expectations & Realizations

(Fred)erica Odigie

Professor John

English 307

July 24, 2012

                                     My Expectations & Realizations

                 Back home in Tennessee while laying in bed on the last day, I imagined what would be the task and expectations of me . Me being me, i thought of the worst case scenario . We would have to read a book every two days . The professor would critically grade every paper and answer  to their questions. There was one in particular that i was scared of the most, no tolerance for tardiness. I obviously have a bad habit with this. The one saying i absolutely hate is, ''I your on time your tardy & if your only early your on time." If we're told that, that would be the death of me.

             The day has come everyone is being prepped & informed before being sent to class until Mr.John Little John decides to give us a speech. So far its helpful and inspiring until he says it,... " If your on time your early & if your early your on time." I felt like all hope just jumped out the window & left me stranded with my best friend named failure. I'm a procrastinator, the worst time manager in the world & on top of that it was to late for me to live on campus. Having to take a thirty minute train ride probably with be the end of this adventure for me.

            We move on to our class and of coarse i know NO ONE . Everyone is quiet until some guy who wasn't even suppose to be there comes in. Mr.Jone comes in & class begins . Of coarse there's a book for us to read but there is only one for the whole four weeks! Him & Mrs.Collen are pretty mellow but of coarse them having to do their job stress the fact that we can not be late once. Class continues on to the computer lab & so far I'm liking it. Its actually a lot easier than i expected.

           Lunch passes & we meet back up for our lecture. This lady comes in, short hair, pink shirt & bow tie. I'm thinking to myself " She's either a fashionable tightwad or she's a character." She opens her mouth and i automatically knew i was going to like this one. The lecture was so informal and inspiring and REAL and actually interesting! Her personality & one simple lecture made me want to get to personally know as many staff members as possible.

           I planned on just getting passed bridge and taking the fact that id get to learn the campus better out of this experience. That one lecture, that one staff member showed me i could get so much more out of it. Passing this program is easy, the hard part is completing my goal as a college student at Columbia. I just have to surround myself with the things i love and the people who support me. I have to do what i have to do now to do what i WANT to do later .