Bridgewater College Top Questions

I would advise myself to look more into other schools and scholarship options, and tell myself to apply to schools that I actually want to go to, not the school my parents pressured me into.

High School Hannah, You are going to be faced with trials and tribulations. You are going to feel alone. You’re going to be happy. You are going to lose friends. But this is all okay. This is all normal. You are precious and priceless. The only person that defines you is God. He made you and He did not do that by accident. He made no mistakes and when He looks at you He only sees perfection. You are His child and even when you turn your back to Him, He will never leave you. There will be times when you feel like the world is crumbling around you, but everything will be okay. High School is only a passing moment in your life. Everything you learn there will prepare you for the world. The world beyond the small city you spent your whole life in. You have been confined, never truly letting your wings spread but you will find yourself. You will love yourself. You will be happy. Love, College Hannah.

The number one advice I would give is to plan better "financially". If I had saved more money I wouldn't have to apply for scholarships for graduate school.

Ever heard the phrase, "It's not what you know, it's WHO you know."? This advice could not have been more helpful to me throughout my high school days. The ability to form and maintain relationships with whomever you encounter is one of the most important skills you should develop. Being involved, not only throughout your high-school, but in your community (whether through volunteer work, part time employment, etc.) will benefit you exponentially IF your social skills are honed enough. Eventually, the myriad of acquaintances you've accumulated through years of attentive small-talk and lighthearted banter morph into your own networking system that you'll have woven throughout the community. Networking is undeniably the single most influential and decisive factor in entering the job market. No matter how marketable your competition can make themselves appear on a piece of paper, you will instantly trump them by unintentionally having a good reference from that old man at the supermarket whose daughter is the CEO of the corporation for which you wish to work. So, make an effort to become involved in life beyond academics. After all, it's not what you know, it's who knows YOU.

If i had to go back an time to talk to myself as a highschool senior there would be alot i would say knowing what i know now. For starters i would tell myself to read more an not to be so lazy. I would tell myself to take the SATs even though i wante to to to a community college. I would tell myself to have confidence in myself an to apply to four year universities because i am smart enough to get acceped . If i could go back in time an talk to myself about what i know about college life i would tell myself that fear is not an option an that there is no eason to be afraid. I would tell myself that life is hard an there are challenges that you would face but you never give up. I would say life is so much fun an you can do anything you put your mind to. Yea everyone tells you that you are smart an you are good enough, but you have to tell yourself that you are worthy and you and good enough, and believe it. That would be advice i would give myself.

If I could go back and give my self advice, I would tell myself to involved in everything I ever dreamed of, to be friends with everyone and anyone, to soak in everything I possibly could and to take risks to learn more about who I am as a person. Being the first one in my family to go to school has held me back from so many opportunities to grow. It doesn't matter where I came from it matters where I'm going.

I felt when I was about to graduate highschool I was being pressured to decide what I wanted to be when I "grew up". I felt that making money was extremely important and while I knew I had to go to college in order to obtain a job that made me happy and would make me enough money to be a self sustaining individual, I still choose working a mediocore job making mediocore pay over school, which caused me to not have enough time to take college as seriously as I should have been straight out of highschool. I started to feel as though college was a waste of time because it was keeping me from making money. If I could give myself any advice back then I would have told myself to listen to my father. My father always says no matter what you're doing, the time is going to pass anyway, so you mind as well be working toward whatever is going to make you happy no matter how long its going to take. I would have also told myself that success should not be measured in money, but in happiness.

If I could go back in time to being a high school senior, I would try to repare myself more in the class work. switching from high school to college opened my eyes widely. The course work, papers, and projects are more time consuming and harder to complete compared to high school. to me it seemed as though an A in high school is equivalent to a C in college. I would tell myself partying is not the way to go for success.

I would suggest to myself that in my freshman year it is most important to learn how to study effectively. College is much different from high school when it comes to academics. When I was in high school everything came pretty easy to me and I did not need to study for tests or quizzes because everything seemed to come naturally to me, this was not the case with college. It took me a few semesters to actually get myself to study and learn effective learning techniques. If I could go back in time and tell myself the best way to study that would be most beneficial to my current self.

The advice I would give myself would be to stay focused. A couple things I have learned in college is that you can get very distracted with friends and the college atomosphere. Staying focused is a huge characteristic in college. In high school I was focused on just getting out and earning my diploma, but when entering college I did not realize the obstacles of balancing a social life and an academic career. Now I know I need to stay focused on school and my educational attainment, as well as, adding a little fun in when I'm not studying.