People ask me all the time, \u201cHow\u2019s your first year in college going?\u201d The truth is that it\u2019s great! I could have never made a better decision than choosing Farmingdale State College as my home away from home. Now hold on, I know what you\u2019re thinking, he is just selling the school with the cheesiest lines and phrases. I\u2019m not like that. If I see something that\u2019s too good to be true, I\u2019m out the door. So before you go scrolling down or exiting off this page, just give me 2 minutes, and I\u2019ll tell you the truth about FSC.<\/p>\n
My journey takes us back to my senior year at high school. More specifically, it was February of my senior year. I was going to class like I normally would, and was pulled over by a teacher in the hallway. Usually speaking, that isn\u2019t a good thing when that happens. He looked at me with very keen eyes, and the word was that when a teacher did that, you did something really bad to get them that way. He said hello and I replied the same. But then, he did something that completely threw me off guard. He smiled. In my head I\u2019m thinking one of two things: A) I really did something wrong and he is just toying with me, or B) He\u2019s psychologically making me think I did something wrong. What did I do? I never cut class, did all the homework from all my teachers, and I\u2019m on the honor roll! Then he said, \u201cWhat college are you going to next year?\u201d Initially, my body relaxes, muscles loosen, and my heart beat calms down. I reply by saying that I\u2019m in between a few right now: Nassau Community College (NCC), LIU, and Hofstra (Those were the top picks amongst my grade and figured he wouldn\u2019t go to deep into a conversation). But the truth, like I mentioned earlier, was that I never thought about going to college. Let me re-phrase that, after high school I was going to college, but I figured it would be something like I go to a school, say I\u2019m going here, they put me in the computer, and I\u2019m in like that. Boy, was I wrong.<\/p>\n
Now like I figured, he wished me luck and went to yell at a group of kids behind me. So, after that encounter, I realized it probably isn\u2019t that simple to get in college. I went to the guidance counselor, and asked out of mere curiosity how to go about getting accepted by a college. She explained to me the whole song and a dance. First you have to apply to them, and that includes writing an essay, getting letters of recommendation, family background, and more. Wow, all that work and information, just to be considered<\/em> into college. So, when I got home, I decided to begin the tedious process of filling out a college application. I scrolled down the page and realized that this was going to take me a minute. I grabbed some snacks, a water bottle, put in some ear buds for white noise, and jumped right into it.<\/p>\n After what felt like decades, I finally finished the application and sent to about five schools: NCC, LIU, Hofstra, Adelphi, and last but not least, Farmingdale State College (figured why not give it a shot; no harm, no foul). I told everyone for the next couple of weeks I sent my application to these schools (this time, I wasn\u2019t lying). And sure enough, guess who accepted me? If you were thinking ALL OF THEM<\/strong>, you\u2019re right! Now I had the decision to make. Which college to choose from? To be completely honest, I didn\u2019t think anyone but NCC would pick me, but you know the other saying: good things happen to those who wait. And so, I weighed all my options: academic opportunity, job opportunity, distance (since I was commuting), and cost (since I would be the one paying the bill). I eliminated LIU, Hofstra, and Adelphi right off the bat (private schools are way<\/em> out of my budget). Now I was left with NCC and FSC. Nassau is a bit cheaper, but for my purposes, it\u2019s only a 2-year school. While Farmingdale, that\u2019s a little more, but it has 4-year programs, some in which I\u2019m interested in. I took a few days to think about it, FSC or NCC. FSC or NCC? FSC or NCC!<\/p>\n Once more, I sat down pondering alone in my room. I looked at the majors one last time. Now we are in the month of May, for your information (I have really bad stalling). I see the computer programming major and read it again. Sounds right, I love to make programs on the computer: Python, Java, C++, and other formats (big tech-savvy terms). I saw Farmingdale had one and went for it.<\/p>\n It was the best decision of my entire life. The program, though at times can be tough, is taught by some incredible teachers. Besides the academics of it, the campus life is awesome too. I met so many new people, and know so many more things, I wish college could never end, but you know. Life doesn\u2019t wait. And neither should you. I encourage you to apply to FSC, believe me, you won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People ask me all the time, \u201cHow\u2019s your first year in college going?\u201d The truth is that it\u2019s great! I could have never made a better decision than choosing Farmingdale State College as my home away from home. Now hold on, I know what you\u2019re thinking, he is just selling the school with the cheesiest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cody-werner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogsdev.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/rambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}