California State University-Monterey Bay Top Questions

I would have told myself to take my Advanced Placement classes more seriously. At the time I just used the AP tests as a way to get out of my in class finals. It was not that I was failing, but I was just too lazy to take the finals. Since I was on low income, I was able to take each AP test for five dollars and I took that cost for granted. Now I realize the true difference between a five dollar class and a hundred dollar class. I also would have taught myself to not be lazy or procrastinate because I had to teach myself after I reached college. It is hard to learn a new way of working after going to college, rather than before.

As a high school senior, my advice to myself would be to just be yourself. Just becuase your going to a new school or environement doesnt mean you need to change yourself to emulate the people you are around. I learned that the hard way and had a lot of growing up to do in the process and it wasn't easy. If i accepted myself for who I was from the beginning, maybe others would have appreciated the real me. Also procrastination is a big thing, people told me this all the time but i figured im a good student I dont need to listen because it won't happen to me. Unfortunetly it did and i had another wake up call. Just time management and learning how to do it all on my own would have helped alot at the start of my college journey. As of now I can say I've grown a lot and I'm proud to say I've matured to be a well college student.

I wish I could tell myself to stress less! Between the SAT/ACT, college and scholarship applications, avoiding senior-itis, and being critically ill in my senior year, along with waiting to hear from colleges, it was a very stress-filled year. I had a lot of fun as well, but I worried about leaving my friends and family to go away to school. And because I became ill right when it was time to accept college offers, I had to decide between staying home to be close to my specialist, or accepting the offer from my dream school and moving away. Luckily I recovered, and am now at my first choice college. If I had known how much fun I would be having, and how well I would fit in at college, I could have relaxed more. I had one moment on the first day when I wanted to go home (my mom asked me to sleep on it and then decide), but from that day on, I have never looked back. Even though money is still a worry, everything else has turned out wonderfully. I would tell my senior self to relax - it will all be fine!

I have learned a whole lot from my college experience but for the most part I have learned about loving college. Before college I disliked school so much. School just wasn't on my mind because I thought it was boring. Now as I grow older I find college to be very interesting to me and I actually get excited to get to class in the morning.

So far from my college experience I have learned that stepping outside of your comfor zone is the best way for you to succeed in college. When attending college no one knows eachother and it's so important for freshman students to meet other people. Social networking and communicating with others is how you get yourself out there. Doing group projects and talking in front of your professor and class gives you confidence in yourself and helps you build trust with other people. Attending college has been valuable because of both of these things. Being a Business major I have learned that communication and networking is the only way that I will be able to succeed in my carreer in the future. I also think that expressing what you think and generating ideas to others are good skills to have in this fast paced world.

Attending helped me learn more about what fields of study I am interested in , and what I can not go into.

Attending school at California State University Monterey Bay has brought me so much excitement and college experiences. Though I am just finishing my first semester I have fallen in love with the college life! I am able to go to the library until midnight to do my essays and homework, and I can do it all on my own time. Im able to be who I want to be and express myself creatively as well as culturally. Im not held back from what I want to talk about in essays, I'm given the choice of what I want to do and what I want to become. College is one of the most valuable experiences life can offer. It's an opportunity to be on your own and learn for yourself what is right and wrong. It gives you the chance to learn about what you want instead of what is required. It molds you into the person you really are!

No one chooses the life they're born into. During this life, some allow themselves to be set adrift like leaves on a breeze. Floating about, and landing wherever the wind takes them. Others choose to harness the wind, grab hold of the ropes and set sail. Whatever chance you can get to learn to read the stars, draw out your own maps, I say take it! Learn from what nature has in store for you on these shifting seas and decide where you want to go. College helps, helped and will continue to help me make some semblance of sense of things. It has taught me to learn to read the currents, ride with the tides, find all truth and knowledge for our kind, and has shown me the way to recognize the patterns. An education of the world I live in will allow me to set my own sails and find my direction while I'm swimming around in this whirpooling little world we call home. It will set me free to sail the sea to find an island all my own.

I started out college thinking that I wasn't actually going to need a degree for any career opportunity that I wanted to pursue. I am an artist, and I figured that I would make my own way, and that no one would be requiring a bachelors degree from me. I thought that I was going to school mostly to "have the college experience." I'm now a junior transfer student in my fourth year of school, and my plans have changed. I still plan to spend my life living creatively and being an entrepreneur, but I also want to spend some time as an elementary school teacher. This means that getting a BA has become an extrememly important part of accomplishing my goals. I think that attending college allows you the incredible gift of "buffer time" between high school and life as a full-fledged adult member of society. Even if you know exactly what you want to do coming out of high school, and are sure that you won't need a degree to do it, having the extra time to finish your "growing up" and get a little bit more ready for the real world is huge.

I have not yet attended college, however, my #1 goal to attain by going to college and the reason I feel it would be valuable to attend is that I believe college will help me better myself. I graduated high school a year and a half ago and over that time frame I realized that I cannot work my entire life without ever having graduated college. Graduating college means better job opportunities, better earning potential, and an overall better life quality. I want to be a better person and I am striving hard every day to become one. Bettering myself is a challenging and never-ending process, but I believe college would help immensely with my goal. I understand that college will be difficult but I believe that aspect will also further my goal because I need to stretch myself and expand my horizons to become a more well-rounded person. Please consider me for your scholarship opportunity, as it would be a large factor in my college experience and my goal of becoming a better person.