What my college life brought me

Now I am studying law in ECUPL in Shanghai and I am in the third year of school. Here I want to say something about what I have got gained from my university.

When I was a freshman, I didnot did not have a clear view of my life. I jointed many different clubs but quitted [present tense = quit, past tense = quit, past perfect = have/had quit] most of them later on (when I was in the my second year) because I found I was not that keen.

With time passing by, As time passed, I changed a lot, Nnot only in hobbies and tastes but about my views of life. Now I had have a deeper degree of self-knowledge and have found my real interests which I think I would will keep for lifelong all my life ['lifelong interest' is OK] such as music, ballet, reading, traveling and so on. Of course, my preference towards music or books might change in the future, whereas my passion on for them would will not decrease.

Also, I have made many excellent friends in college. Some share the same hobbies with me and some help me a lot and some are always there with me whenever I meet trouble. And it is worth mentioning that I made a couple of bosom friends. We share the similar values of life and have a similar attitude towards basic things, Wwhich I consider the most essential factor in a long-term and mutually beneficial friendship.

I better know what kind of life I desire. I love changes and challeges and I would love to try more new things later in my life. For me, I'm really not afraid of failure or making any mistakes. What I hate is having no courage to persuing what I want.

So to finalize to sum up [to finalize --> a plan, to sum up --> a speech, a piece of writing, an essay, an arugment] I really appreciate my college not in that it taught me knowledge in law but for what it helped me in the way I think.