Extra Credit Post

A poem that I feel every undergraduate should read is Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." I first came across this poem around when I was much younger and have always enjoyed it. Though nowdays, more and more students are progressing towards a higher education, I still feel as though "The Road Not Taken" illustrates all facets of college life.
Frost demonstrates the need to persue a path that is not necessarily the one that all others chose. As incoming freshman face the new ideas in college, they will have more choices to make than ever before. The poem goes through the decision making process. Though as one person you are not able to have the best of both worlds all the time and a decision must be made. The poem can be used to describe not following the crowd; doing your own "thing." Everything in college is a choice; choice to attend a university, choice to join Greek life, choice to study this major or that, choice to attend this social gathering or study. The poem does not necessarily debate conforming to general acceptance, but rather considering all paths open to a person and choosing the one that makes that person feel comfortable.
I know that before my entrance into postsecondary education, I was faced with the decision of going the route my friends had gone (most of them to USC), coming to Clemson, or going even further out. Of course I chose Clemson "and that has made all the difference."