Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Top Questions

Probably the best advise I could give myself would be to worry less about finding a group to fit in with, and focus more on my classes and organization. You are going to college for an education not a social experience. Why pay all that money if you are just going to focus on socializing. I learned the hard way that college professors do not care what is going on in your life. You are in their class, so pay attention and do your work. Being promt and organized is key. The days of shuffling through handfuls of papers, and having books scttered about are over. Get it togethor find your binders, the sticky notes, and highlighters. Get serious quick, and the rest of the semester will flow nicely. Please know that I am not a total bore now that I am serious. I just have my priorities in the right order. You will make friends and hang out, but school comes first. You will be grateful in the end because you will not be stressing over grades at end of term or worrying about keeping grants. Which makes life a lot easier. I wish you the best of luck!

Apply to as many colleges and scholarships as possible. Don't just accept the first good scholarship that comes to you, you're a smart kid, you are gonna get a ton of cach. All you need to do is apply. Also, dont leave the applications until last minute, or thats really gonna come back and bite you in the rear.

If I could go back in time to give myself advice, I would tell myself that I need to talk to new people as often as I can and get involved with as many activities on campus as I can. Why? Because I am a very shy person and I tend to keep away from anything that will get me noticed. I have now discovered in college, that being noticed is not so bad, I actually enjoy it. If I could go back in time, I would definitely tell myself to get more involved with my high school.

I would definitely tell myself to work harder and get better grades. The fulfillment you get from achieving high grades it tremendous. You’ll feel better about yourself and the chances of you doing better in college are much greater if you work hard at it. The other thing I would tell myself is not to wait so long before going to college. I wish I would have gone to college as a young adult instead of waiting. You have so much more going for you at a younger age. For instance, you have your youth. You will be able to do more and you will not need as much help. You will be able to start your career sooner. If I had started college as a young adult, I would have been in the Nursing profession almost twenty years already. Instead, I am just starting out. It will be much harder now because hospitals and doctors will expect so much more from me simply because of my age. But getting good grades is the number one thing I would tell myself to do.

If I assume to go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, my advice shall be to wait a little bit to go to college. While I wait I could have found myself a full time job so I can help my grandmother with bill payments from her clinic and for her medicine that she can’t buy. School to me right now is to expensive. I had wish to have waited a little bit more. When I know I’m fully ready for my future career, I would go and enroll for school and study what I’m studying now, which is medical assisting. I had made a decision right after high school, to go straight to college when I graduate, which was at the age 17. I didn’t think It would be this challenging, but with hope I know I can do this and when I’m finish with school, I will start working and help my grandmother with all her needs because after all she had done for me when I was a child, to pay her back with thankfulness I will take fully responsibility of her and all her needs.

If I could go back in time and talk myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself that college is very different from high school. Teachers won't baby you and give you extra time for an assignment. You would really have to work hard to get good grades and don't slack off. Also, even though you wonder why you are spending all this kind of money, it will pay off in the long run.

Looking back at myself in high school there are a few things I would have told myself if I would have been able to. I would have said to get started on filling out as many scholarships as possible because once it comes time you will get so busy with everything else your not going to have as much time to complete them as you do then. Also I would have mentioned that I need to start looking for a job near the location of my college because by the time you move in and go out to search for a job there won't be any because many of the college students have already taken them up and you will be left unemployed. The last thing I would have mentioned to my highschool self is to make sure you find the right people to hang out with because some people will lead you down the wrong path and get you in trouble. Learning all this the hard way has given me a good look at what I need to continue to do if I want to further my education.

The first piece of advice I would give to myself would be to look for a school that is small enough to comfort the country girl in myself. I would also tell myself to choice a course that I am very passionate about. I've always loved math and now I am in a field that revolves around math. When I first started college, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer because everyone knows they make a lot of money. I quickly found out that was not the course for me. Because I wasn't surre what I wanted to do when I began, I wasted a year of school on courses I didn't need. The final advice I would give to myself would be to go to a school where I would have to live on campus. Young ones have to grow up sometime. The sooner, the better.

College for me is considered a means to an end because I have been wanting to be a child psychologist for 12 years. I postponed my dreams because I became a mother and I wanted to be their for my children. Now my children are in school and I made the decision to go back and accomplish these dreams. I see the classes as an experience to expand my knowledge in many various fields which allows me to become smarter and more determined to finish college.

My college experience has been great so far. Especially since I started out at a smaller school. I really and truly believe that starting small is the best bet. There are smaller classes and more one on one time with the profesor. I've gotten a lot of great study habits from our free tutoring center here. Before I had no idea how to go about even preparing for a test. Being here is also a major change from my enviroment, and I've always looked at myself as adjusting to any situation. Going from a busy urban area to an extremely calm rural area was a huge obstacle I was glad to be able to overcome.