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Doesn't senior year of high school feel like it was yesterday? You have just started the dreadful process of college applications. You are getting headaches and seeing blurriness from staring at the Common Application for hours upon hours. There are so many options to be made: East coast, West coast, campus school, city school, the list goes on and on. Probably the biggest decisions involved in the process is choosing between a small liberal arts college or a big university. After weeks of decision making, you decide that a small school is the perfect decision for whats best for you.
Once you reach that first thanksgiving break, it's very easy to see the difference in your college experience and the college experience that your friends at large universities are experiencing. While they attend one sorority event or fraternity mixer after another, you're constantly noticing the unique talents of your peers. It's only natural that you love every second of it. You are known as Steve, or Rachel and not number 376 in a class of 500. Your peers in your class with value your opinion more.
The only drawback of attending a small artsy college is that you might feel that you are in a constant competition to one-up your classmates. For unmotivated people, this might be seen as a bad thing but on the other hand, it pushes students to be motivated and work hard. Every weekend, students work on film sets creating movies, spend hours on location having photo-shoots, sitting in the radio station broadcasting live shows, singing, acting, and rehearsing theatre shows. Students artfully build sets, create lighting setups, dancing their hearts away, comprising a marketing plan, and much more. The drive behind these students is completely out of this world. For my classmates and I, it's odd if someone is sitting around doing nothing on weekends.
Exposing these talents is a huge factor of daily life at small liberal arts schools. Websites that broadcast the talents of students, such as LoadnVote has significantly changed how student work is seen. Loadnvote in particular, holds contests in which people can vote in different categories for which person's talents they feel should receive prizes.
Small liberal arts colleges foster the talents of motivated students and instill a drive in them to expose those skills.
Once you reach that first thanksgiving break, it's very easy to see the difference in your college experience and the college experience that your friends at large universities are experiencing. While they attend one sorority event or fraternity mixer after another, you're constantly noticing the unique talents of your peers. It's only natural that you love every second of it. You are known as Steve, or Rachel and not number 376 in a class of 500. Your peers in your class with value your opinion more.
The only drawback of attending a small artsy college is that you might feel that you are in a constant competition to one-up your classmates. For unmotivated people, this might be seen as a bad thing but on the other hand, it pushes students to be motivated and work hard. Every weekend, students work on film sets creating movies, spend hours on location having photo-shoots, sitting in the radio station broadcasting live shows, singing, acting, and rehearsing theatre shows. Students artfully build sets, create lighting setups, dancing their hearts away, comprising a marketing plan, and much more. The drive behind these students is completely out of this world. For my classmates and I, it's odd if someone is sitting around doing nothing on weekends.
Exposing these talents is a huge factor of daily life at small liberal arts schools. Websites that broadcast the talents of students, such as LoadnVote has significantly changed how student work is seen. Loadnvote in particular, holds contests in which people can vote in different categories for which person's talents they feel should receive prizes.
Small liberal arts colleges foster the talents of motivated students and instill a drive in them to expose those skills.
About the Author:
Christopher Rudolph McQueen studied at a small liberal Arts College and he has advised hundreds of students throughout their college application process. More information on Christopher, click Load n Vote
