Comments on: Rock Bottom to Rock Solid: How I Learned to Love College http://bettergrads.org/blog/2009/10/31/rock-bottom-to-rock-solid-how-i-learned-to-love-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rock-bottom-to-rock-solid-how-i-learned-to-love-college We help public schools build college prep communities, one alumnus at a time. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin Adler http://bettergrads.org/blog/2009/10/31/rock-bottom-to-rock-solid-how-i-learned-to-love-college/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Kevin Adler Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:36:48 +0000 http://bettergrads.org/?p=368#comment-92 This is one of the most poignant pieces I have read about the college experience in a long time. <br><br>College is what you make of it, not a ready-made, one-size-fits-all experience. When I was picking between UC Berkeley and Occidental College as a senior, my favorite teacher in high school offered some advice: "Kevin, you will do fine at either school. But at Oxy, knowing you, you will truly make it your own." <br><br>I only understood these words in full upon retrospection, a few years after matriculation. Now, the phrase - "make it your own" - is one of my creeds, and indeed a guiding philosophy of BetterGrads.<br><br>Thank you for sharing your story, Yennaedo. This is one of the most poignant pieces I have read about the college experience in a long time.

College is what you make of it, not a ready-made, one-size-fits-all experience. When I was picking between UC Berkeley and Occidental College as a senior, my favorite teacher in high school offered some advice: “Kevin, you will do fine at either school. But at Oxy, knowing you, you will truly make it your own.”

I only understood these words in full upon retrospection, a few years after matriculation. Now, the phrase – “make it your own” – is one of my creeds, and indeed a guiding philosophy of BetterGrads.

Thank you for sharing your story, Yennaedo.

]]> By: Kevin Adler http://bettergrads.org/blog/2009/10/31/rock-bottom-to-rock-solid-how-i-learned-to-love-college/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Kevin Adler Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:36:48 +0000 http://bettergrads.org/?p=368#comment-27 This is one of the most poignant pieces I have read about the college experience in a long time. <br><br>College is what you make of it, not a ready-made, one-size-fits-all experience. When I was picking between UC Berkeley and Occidental College as a senior, my favorite teacher in high school offered some advice: "Kevin, you will do fine at either school. But at Oxy, knowing you, you will truly make it your own." <br><br>I only understood these words in full upon retrospection, a few years after matriculation. Now, the phrase - "make it your own" - is one of my creeds, and indeed a guiding philosophy of BetterGrads.<br><br>Thank you for sharing your story, Yennaedo. This is one of the most poignant pieces I have read about the college experience in a long time.

College is what you make of it, not a ready-made, one-size-fits-all experience. When I was picking between UC Berkeley and Occidental College as a senior, my favorite teacher in high school offered some advice: “Kevin, you will do fine at either school. But at Oxy, knowing you, you will truly make it your own.”

I only understood these words in full upon retrospection, a few years after matriculation. Now, the phrase – “make it your own” – is one of my creeds, and indeed a guiding philosophy of BetterGrads.

Thank you for sharing your story, Yennaedo.

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