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Rock Valley College Analysis
Choosing to attend Rock Valley College was not a hard decision for me. It was always one of my top choices when I was deciding on where I would go to continue my education. I ended up choosing RVC over my other options for a few reasons. One reason is that RVC is in Rockford and close to home. After considering all my options, I realized I was not ready to leave home yet. I felt as though I would need a transitional period to help me adjust to college life and RVC would be the perfect place for that. Another reason is the price of RVC. This was a big factor for me because I did not have much financially to afford to go off to a four-year college immediately. Rock Valley gave me the option to take classes that I would take at a four- year for …show more content…
The experience will be exciting and a bit scary at the same time. I have been at RVC for a half a semester now and it has almost been everything I was expecting. It has been really challenging, but still manageable. My classes and workload from those classes has been a lot and very stressful at times, but worth the knowledge experience after I got everything done. I thought college would be extremely different from high school and in some ways, it is but it has not been all that different. Since most of my high school class is also going to RVC I always see familiar faces and feel welcomed and at ease. The professors and workload are very different from high school. In high school, the teachers were always there telling you what you had to do and when to turn it in, but professors in college leave it all up to you. They do not stay on top of you to make sure you are keeping up with the class and not falling behind. Professors do care that you do well in the class and will help if they see someone who is putting in a lot of effort and still struggling as long as they ask for guidance and do not give up. The experience has been exciting for the most part. I get to learn in a new environment and meet many new people. At first I was a bit scared to start college because I did not really know what to expect. I was worried the professors would be mean and the classes …show more content…
I was worried at first about college because it was a completely new experience. Rock Valley has given me the opportunity to experience college while still being at home. I was afraid that the transition into college would be very hard and was quite anxious about, but it has been going well so far. College was in some ways exactly what I was expecting it to be while in other ways not really what I thought it would be, both in good ways. My advisor at RVC has been there for me helping me understand what classes I would need to take to meet my goal of graduating with an associate in science. She has also helped me plan my next steps in figuring out what I will need to continue to my four-year college. Rock Valley has given an overall good experience for my first semester so far and I am pleased to be learning

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