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Self-Discovery in Campus
Before getting into campus, one fantasizes about the place so wildly, at least by my experience. There are those so many things one is told about campus while in high school – the immense freedom, the fun, the parties, relationships, ‘crews’ and so on – that you can’t wait to get there and ‘get free’. But there is one thing they usually forget to tell you about campus, something that is kind of ‘the other polar end’ of the freedom paradise, and that something is that campus is a place of self-discovery. It is the transitional place between high school where one has very limited freedom and limited choices on one side and adult life where one has total freedom and endless choices on the other side. If you ask me, I’d say that campus is like a rite of passage only that in this rite, you are both the initiate and the teacher and the master of ceremony. You are moving from one level to another and you are the one guiding yourself through the transition.
In campus, you find people from all walks of life, all classes of society, all religions and beliefs, all passions and hobbies and everything. And you are free to follow whichever you prefer. With this freedom comes the heavy responsibility of discovering oneself, lest you get lost in all the chaos. In campus there will also be trends every time, coming and going. And of course, there are many many programs to choose from to study, though for this, it is usually rather a small issue because people enter campus after choosing a program to study there. By choosing one program out of many, you have taken a step towards self-discovery, a step in a miles-long journey. But it may be a step you may have
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