University Experience
The university is an institution of higher learning that offers great opportunities for students to broaden their knowledge and skill horizons that will act as a launch pad in their professional lives. During the late years of high school life, intensive thoughts of joining the university had occupied my mind. The university offered me first-hand experience in the school of life. The university moulded me into a mature adult. The university is full of freedom, and majority of the greatest people in the world, such as Presidents, entrepreneurs, actors and senior corporate executives, have seen the doors of the university. The university offered me the ground for laying a solid foundation in entrepreneurial ideas. Great entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page laid the foundation of their ideas that launched them into the world of entrepreneurship in the university. The university not only has had positive experiences but also negative experiences for me. Students are normally under peer pressure and may be influenced by friends who have bad habits such as substance abuse. Substance abuse has been common in the institution of higher learning, ranging from excessive drinking of alcohol, smoking marijuana and hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Such students fail to complete their studies due to disorientation and addiction. They are also commonly expelled from school or charged in a court of law which leads to life behind bars. Many students have also become sexually active during the early years of their life in the university. Students who do not practice safe sex may be infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as HIV, Gonorrhoea, and Syphilis or even become subjects of early pregnancies. In our contemporary world, many universities have equipped themselves with counselling departments that guide students and prevent them from going astray in their university life.