I guess technically I attended 3 schools.
During high school I took some basic classes for dual credit at a community college.
Then I went to a smaller university. I was definitely more involved in extra-curricular stuff there. When I was in high school I never planned on staying at the first university (as much as I liked it) I just decided to go there on a temporary basis. I couldn't decide where I wanted to go even though I got accepted to Tech & A&M but didn't think the big school thing would be for me my first year or so.
After the end of sophomore year, I transferred to UNT (which was almost 7 times as big as my smaller school) and I think I definitely participated in less activities than at my first school. I think the main reason for that was because the job I worked there wasn't a campus job, so it wasn't as flexible as the RA-gig that I had at my first school and many evenings I would be @ work instead of French Club meetings or whatever. My classes were also really hard after my first semester there (getting into the hard upper classmen classes!) and they required a lot more time (and a ton more group meetings for projects) than previous semesters. So I don't think my lack of involvement was because I transferred, but more because I chose to focus on graduating/academics. I was definitely more strategic in picking UNT to transfer to because I thought it was in an excellent location for internship opportunities / future job opportunities. I learned that a lot of the local companies preferred to pick interns from the area (since there are so many undergrad schools up here) and lucky for me, that all panned out just as I hoped
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