For those of you who have not attended college yet, you are in for an experience of a lifetime.  You’ll try things that you never tried before, make many great friends and meet some amazing people.  It was definitely one of the greatest times of my life, but at the same time it was a lot of work.

I can remember spending countless hours working on research papers for the technical classes that I was taking.  While I did learn many valuable things, it got to the point where I would dread each termpaper that I was assigned.

You see, you had to make a trade off between the time that you usually spent on fun things to have just enough time to get those term papers done.  While the sacrifice was needed so that I could get my degree, I would have very much like to participate in more activities outside of school then do my homework.  But, I do not spent that time on my assignments, I would not have the degree that I have today.