As a student at Western Michigan University, I anticipate that it will help me tremendously with my personal goals. It is believe that college aides people in discovering themselves in a way. I pushes people limits and begins to make people that were taken care of immensely as children, to care for themselves as adults. I hope that college will help me continue to grow and continue to prepare me for the life that it ahead of me. Even though college is hard, frustrating, and stressful, in the end, I know that I will benefit from my personal experiences here as I start my career and move forward with my life.

Along with Western Michigan University helping me to grow and mature, it is also helping me to learn and become educated. Throughout my life, I always wanted to go to college. I had very high standards when I was a child. I wanted to go to Harvard and nothing was going to stop me. As I grew, I realized that that was pretty much out of reach for me, and I didn't want to go there. I began to look around at colleges that were credible for their programs dealing with business. I came across Western Michigan University, and I knew it was the place for me. The college is preparing me for a career in exactly what I want to do in life. It is educating me and I am becoming very proud of what I have learned. In a couple years, when I am a working girl out of college, I will look back at my years at Western and realize that I could not do what I am doing today if it wasn't for this college and the education I received.

Sara Thompson, Western Michigan University Class of 2010