College Reflection Essay

When we went to U.C. Berkeley last week. I was a little surprised by some things. It wasn’t really what I expected. I expected to see classes and classrooms with a couple hundred people. I also wanted to see the regular classes with about 30 people. I wanted to see how the professors taught and I wanted to listen to how they gave lectures and I expected to see people taking notes like crazy. I was really looking forward to walking around campus and sight-seeing a little bit. I was also expecting a little more information on financial aid for the U.C. system. I wasn’t expecting the tour to take as long as it did.

I didn’t like the fact that we were not able to look around and go inside classes. I think it might have been our fault because we were running late. I think it would have helped a lot more if we would have saw the classrooms and heard a class in session. I think next time we should leave before 2nd period because 2 hours would have helped a lot, we would have been able to see a lot more and could have been impressed and influenced a lot more than we were. We should have really prepared more questions because our tour guide seemed like he was expecting them and we didn’t give him anything to answer, he seemed a little disappointed. I appreciated the fact that he was prepared. We did learn a lot of history on the college. We learned about the dorms and some of the cool programs and student organized events they had. I also just liked being in the environment. We could still see all the buildings from the outside, which looked really great. The Greek architecture looked awesome. I think seeing all the people there and just being in the college really made big impression on us.

All in all, I liked visiting U.C. Berkeley and I think it should definitely happen every year for sophomores. Its a good experience but we can definitely make it better with some modifications of the trip. I also learned not to go to Starbucks when it could affect other people . Lol xD.

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