Meet Taron | a student at Slippery Rock University

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Today I am here to talk to you guys about my experience at my school, which is slippery Rock University. Okay, so I'm going to start back in high school. Brown, my junior year of high school, I was actually granted the opportunity to take a field trip to visit Super Rock University with a group of other juniors and seniors from my high school now in the city of Pittsburgh. In general, you hear about Super Rock University alive? Um, you know, people who who went there, Some of your teachers may have even graduated from there. Um, so back then, slippy rock was definitely a very familiar name to me. So during my junior year, my school allowed us to go and visit Slippery Rock for the first time. Well, for my first time now, when I came to Super Rock University, I had already knew people who graduated from my high school that I attended the university. So that was a very exciting time for me to be able to go, um, kind of see where my appears in. So my first experience seeing Super Rock University Waas like, very overwhelming Because coming from high school to college is a very big transition. Being able to see that, you know, first hit on, you know, watching people walk to and from classes, seeing all the big buildings, the dorms, the dining hall, all those different things were, like, very overwhelming for me. In a good way, I was very excited, you know, to get to see and experience that. At that time in high school, my dream was to always go to a large school. So although I really did enjoy my first experience as to when I visited um, going to a large school with my dream, I wanted to go to a school with thousands and thousands and thousands of students and, you know, like a bunch of different people, very diverse, just a very large school. Um, most of them were probably on my list of schools. I applied to six schools in total because my mom did not want me to go overboard. She even thought that me choosing to apply to six schools was a little overboard. So I applied to six different schools and I believe it was four different states and I got into all of them. Luckily, which was, like, very, very cool for me because uh huh, you never really know, You know, a ZMA each as you can be dedicated to your schoolwork and get great test scores and all of those things, you never really know what the school is looking for. So you never really know if you fit the bill for what you know they are looking for at the time. So when I got accepted into all six schools, I became very, very flustered because I did not know what exactly I wanted to do or what I wanted to take. I had schools that were pretty small, pretty big, medium sized. When I finally got to making my decision, my mom was a very, very big help in helping me make my decision. So we went down the line and we actually created a chart in which we wrote down all six schools and then wrote down major categories about school. Like, education, the specific program, dining, residents, life activities, all that different stuff on this chart so that we could, you know, kind of rank different things and how they came. Um, slippery rock actually ended up being in like the top two schools ended up being in the top two schools, and I was still very well liked them still very poorly on which way I want it to go. Um, also on top of that, with the Board of Governors Scholarship became a program called Jumpstart on Jumpstart was actually a very big selling point for me coming into my college experience because I was notified that I would be able to come to school week early and kind of get to know the campus, get to know some people before classes actually started. Now that was very, very big for me because in high school I was a introvert. I really didn't like to meet new people, and I was very, very quiet and in my shell. So coming into this experience and being able to kind of get accustomed to things before everything, like picked up the pace and like went full speed was like a very huge selling point for me um So eventually I did end up choosing to come to sleeping right? University and I have not regretted my decision ever since. The biggest reason why I love my school is because of how many things were able to get involved in Super Rock. Being able to have these clubs and organizations and activities and these groups to kind of lean on and kind of get my mind off of things and be able to pull me through waas a very, very big thing for me. Without having my activities or about organizations and clubs, I would not know what I would have done. I say all of that to say that getting involved is a very, very big thing. Another reason why I love my school is because of, ah, lot of the staff that we have. Now my undergraduate experience was very, very huge for me. Like I said, But my graduate experience has also been very, very eye opening eso. So we still are able to go into our student center and kind of going and, you know, sit down and just kind of get some homework. Um art is another great place for me, um, going to the gym and kind of just unwinding, getting all of that, you know, stress and tension out of me has been very, very beneficial in very, very helpful. Um, throughout my time being as the Iraq, especially during the pandemic, I had a nice list of schools to choose from, but slipping rock honestly was the best choice for me. You need to know everything that you need to know in order to make the right decision for you.