Beloit College Top Questions

Your fellow students and professors won't bite, so don't be reluctant to talk to them. This is your time to experiment with new things and new people, especially the ones that you might at first think you won't like. Worrying about the future a little bit is good, but not too much. Have fun with it all. Don't just sit there and let opportunities pass you by. And don't start any blood feuds. Depending on the size of your college, they might come back to bite you. Just shrug off the petty annoyances and you'll be a much happier person. Finally, if you get in a tight spot; for instance, if you have two papers and a test to finish by the next day and it's already 7 at night, just breath. Go for a walk. Calm yourself down before you start anything, or you'll never be able to get anywhere. And remember that the instant you start working on it, you'll feel much more confident and less like crying in a corner.

I would strongly encourage myself to be a serious student. I would ask myself to very earnestly consider what kind of life I want to live and be creative in my exploration of career options. I would tell myself that my world is very small as an 18 year old and a lot of the limitations that my upbringing has placed on my career choice are small minded and pessimistic. I would ask myself what I am really interested in and what kind of impact I would like myself to have on the world. I would tell myself that I am smart enough to get straight A's every semester and that there is no excuse not to do so. I would encourage myself to make good friendships but establish healthy boundaries. I would tell myself to not drink too much and to stay away from dating until I have a degree in hand, because men and alcohol will always be around, but an opportunity of attending a fantastic school is a rare gift.

If I could back to the time when I was a high school senior, I would tell myself not to procrastinate on my college applications. Even though I am very satisfied with Beloit College, I believe that I could have gotten into one or more of my reach schools if my personal essay and other common application responses were written better. I would also tell myself to work on my time management skills. Having good time management skills in college is very important. If I could have worked on my time management my senior year of school, it might have made my first semester of college easier. Besides the time management problem, my transition to college was fairly easy!

Stop caring so much! Nobody else can dictate who you are, only you can decide what you do and where you go. Don't let expectations crush you into taking a path you don't actually want.

If I were granted the ability to go back in time and give myself some advice for college, I would definitely still encourage myself to apply for Beloit College. Most of my advice, actually, would revolve around after coming to school. First, I would recommend buckling down sooner Freshman year than I actually did. As to courses, I would recommend diversifying my courseload more, by taking more courses out of the Anthropology department as supporting courses. Further, I would suggest to avoid certain courses that I had problems with, which include Anthropology 309 and 353. One of the hardest lessons I had to learn was that I am, in fact, not a cultural anthropologist- my mind just does not think that way. If I had known that before, I would have saved myself a lot of stress and anxiety. Finally, I would recommend to simply sit back, take a deep breath, and embrace college life, as it will be gone before I know it.

I attended a community college for two years prior to enrolling at Beloit College. The transition from high school to community college and then to Beloit taught me that education is a tiered system. I had never felt overworked or pushed until success was an impossibility. I attribute this to my following a true-tiered path, and applying myself appropriately at each level. Each new tier of life requires advancement in all the spheres of life. If a person moves to the next tier with inadequate skills in crucial areas, their success is increasingly unlikely with each lacking skill. The most important thing I have learned at Beloit is the essential role of personal responsibility. Everyone has ambitions, but very few apply themselves fully to the acquisition of those goals; that results in their loss. Believing in the sanctity of personal responsibility does put me in danger of blaming myself, should I fail, but it also gives me the opportunity to take the responsibility for my. It functions as a powerful motivator, and without this recent foray into a tier of independence, I would be ignorant to the importance of personal responsibility.

As I have only finished one semester of college, with I'm told is the most foreboding one, I definetly do not have the experience a third or fourth year undergraduate has developed. However thus far I have learned that every single course and learned piece of information is essential. I have been able to make connections between my anthropolgy and geology course, diverse subjects. Also information gleened in my geology class could be applied in my international politics course. Everything I learned from day 1 of my life to the end I believe is interconnected and essential for my survival. College allows the opportunity to focus on a single thing, whether it be education or a focus/major. It has been valuable to attend becuase college allows one to dwell on one's life and find purpose. Without purpose one will be forever lost and wandering.

I have learned so many valuable things that made my education well rounded and allow me to play a better role in society.

I have gotten many valuable things out of my college experience from friends, to memories I will never forget. However, the most important entity I have taken from college is having a backup plan. Myself being a college baseball player, I am surrounded by players that rely on their athletic skill to hopefully be a future for them. Yet, I have seen in two years many fellow teammates end up kicked out of college because they didn't spend enough time in school as they did on the baseball field. This is why having a backup plan is important. Of course being able to play baseball professionally would be amazing, but an education needs to be there to fall back on. I have seen too many times my teammates ineligible or doing nothing with their lives five years down the road because they were doing baseball college instead of college baseball. Hence the word college first because college comes first then you get to play, not play then you get to go to college. This is why doing everything I can in the classroom will back me up when the day comes where the cleats are hung up for good.

From high school, I decided to attend a community college before transferring to a university. I was concerned about the experience this would give me as I thought going to a four-year was necessary to obtain the "ultimate college experience". I was wrong. Community college not only gave me the opportunity to save money, but also allowed me to become involved within my school. I began by joining the honors transfer program, which led me to join Alpha Gamma Sigma, the honor society. I became the activities coordinator which enabled me to quickly make friends and adjust to this new "college life". Some activities included car washes for fundraising and a holiday party for underprivileged children. I engaged in my community through this organization and saw how my college affected it. I also joined the student -run newspaper. This added to my overall experience because it gave me insight into my major. I was able to see the way media influences my everyday surroundings. By being in college, I met people with the same interests and values and different people as well. Community college has ultimately laid the platform for transferring to the university of my choice.