Cody Goggin
10-3-2013 12:50 pm
OWENSVILLE, MO-Well here you are. You are an upperclassman in high school and it is time to make the decision on where you are heading next. There are a couple of colleges in mind, but you are not quite sure. You can compare prices, proximity to home, and the quality of the education, however, one intangible that you must experience is the feel for the campus.
Campus
visits are very important to determining what college you will attend, because
if the campus is not suitable for you, you do not feel comfortable there, or it
is not “homey” enough, then you will not be reaching your full academic
potential and be the best prepared for your future. Choosing a college is not
just a matter of choosing a school, but also choosing your home and community
for at least the next four years.
I am not the only one that
has found the college visiting process valuable. Senior Marissa Landwehr has
also visited and decided on a college. Whenever I asked her why stepping foot
on the college’s campus was important, she replied by saying, “It is important
to visit a college because it gives you an idea if the college is right for you.
When visiting you can get the feel of the atmosphere and the people around
you.”
I can speak about the importance of college visits
personally. By just researching schools online and looking at all of them I
thought I knew what college I wanted to go to. Whenever I visited my first
choice, I was not so crazy about it. This college was the University of
Missouri-Columbia. It was not bad, but the feel of the campus was just not for
me, so a couple months later I visited Missouri State University and absolutely
loved their campus. I had to take a third visit at Southeast Missouri State
University just to make sure, but I decided that Missouri State was for me and
that is where I will be attending next year. I never really thought I would be
going to Missouri State, but after stepping foot on their campus, I could tell
that it was a place where I could live.
Making a college choice is a life-altering
decision, so you want to not only pick a place where your career will be able
to advance and flourish, but where you can be happy. So when making this
decision, make sure that you schedule at least one campus visit to one place or
even multiple places to see if it is for you.
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