My college experience was filled with good times, bad times, and stressful times.  I would have to say that it was one of the most wonderful and horrible experiences of my entire life.  Though I did manage to get a degree, it wasn’t until my fourth year that I figured out the three pieces to the college puzzle.

Now these pieces are not a description of the three things that make your college life wonderful.  Rather, it is the three things that tend to encapsulate what you will be doing a college while you’re there.

The first piece would be the coursework that you do while in college.  I would include attending classes, reading your textbook, and doing assignments in this category.  Usually, you’ll find yourself doing these tasks each and every day and quite frankly it will be the majority what to do at college.

The second piece would be all the essays that you write.  Whether it be the term papers that you are writing for your English class, psychology class, sociology class, etc. you’ll find you are writing pretty much all the time.  The result is either you end up loving to write or just hate it.  Thankfully, with many degrees you do not have to write essays in the last couple years of your college career.

The third piece of a college life would be socializing.  This can be the clubs, teams, events that you attend and participate in.  I would have to say, for me this was the most fun of the three major things that you do in college.  But, you have to be careful that you don’t spend all your time socializing and ignore the other two things that you should be doing.

So my college days are over, there are many days when I wish I could go back and relive those times again.