 My first day on campus was an interesting one. Immediately walking on the yard, I was approached by several friends, different fraternity people wanting to see if I was interested on what year I was with GPII transferred in, if I was eligible to even attend interest meetings and things like that. I met a lot of football players, basketball players and cheerleaders as well and just mingled with a lot of people. It was very interesting to know that I'll be living in the same area with these people opposed to having to commute back and forth to school when I was at the community college. It was a very interesting experience, something different to be living on campus. So coming into college and specifically ECSU, I had quite a few expectations about what I'd learned as a biology major. I didn't have much experience in laboratory so I really wanted to get that hands-on experience, learn about different careers in my majors, different paths that I could take and all those expectations were met and exceeded, especially as I've had the opportunity to participate in research programs. However, I did not have the expectation of learning through opportunities like student leadership so I've had lots of personal growth and personal development and professional development through those opportunities and that's been the greatest but most rewarding surprise. I decided to come to ECSU because it was a smaller campus and it had many different clubs and organizations for me to join such as marching band and ROTC.