Capella University Top Questions

I have learned how to properly and efficiently research information. I have also learned how to value others' opinions and learn from them. Being successful and knowing I can do it is another valuable thing I have taken from my college experience and will hold onto forever.

My learning experience with online college was different from my community college . I use attend community college as soon as I was finish with high school. Online college I attend June 2010 to start back college again. I learn that college is easy if you make it easy for yourself. I started community college in 2006 of September to further my education. When I begin college I was not attending as much and never put in my all, I thought that it would be easy. I learn that friends and that attend the same college as you or people you just met will keep you unfocused. When your in college you must meet the right friends to help you progress. I pick friends that will be relaxes about education. When I left I had no credit, because I was fooling around, I was I little scare to start online, but online college kept me focus and working at my own pace and stay away from all the distraction. I have three books to go to graduate. College is a experience that help me learn from all my mistakes; I excited to have my college Associated degree to graduate.

Back in my sophomore year of high school, college seemed like a distant adventure. It did not seem like it would teach me more than I was already learning, would just receive a different diploma at the end. When I first started college, I was thrown into a whirlwind. No parents, no one checking up on me, looming deadlines, huge classrooms, mountians of textbooks, and freedom. Then came the slamming reality of the need for money. Money for rent, utilities, textbooks, school fees, parking fees, gas, and the list goes on. I let the weight of it pressure me into taking a break from school. Trying to start again has been hard. My income was cut by half right after I left school and I got pregnant. Now I have a beautiful baby girl. Going through the emotions of the impending birth, the responsibility of raising a human being, and dreaming about what I want our life to be like in 20/30/40 years. I knew I had to get back into school to achieve any of my dreams for us. Life and school have taught me to become a strong, intelligent women who achieves her dreams.

I love my college! I am a student at the University of Kentucky. So far, I have gotten a lot out of my experience there. I took some time off before becoming a student at twenty two, and my confidence in myself has been iraised exponentially. In fact, I used to hate math, and now want to double major in History, and Physics! It has been very valuable for me to attend school there because it has provided me with the confidence that I can succeed in college. I have gotten to see Jupiter, and it's four largest moons (and a dying star) which I never would have had the opportunity to see with my own eyes were I not in school. I have come out of my shell a little, I even have the courage to answer questions in class. I feel that I am getting a very good education there, and already feel like I have more to offer at my current job as a preschool teacher, even though that's not what I'm getting my degree in.

When i was younger, I read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad and decided that i didnt need college..I HAD A PLAN! Notice I said HAD? That thought soon went down the toilet! I went to Bible college in Oklahoma and loved it, but still no degree so I started working full time and moving up the corporate ladder rather rapidly. As I wanted to grow more and more, I noticed that if I had a degree, I would be making so much more! The woman I am now, its not so much the money(although it is important), its more the knowledge. I want to gain more knowledge to use in everyday life. I want to be able to face a situation and, because of my education, know exactly how to handle it successfully. Out of my experience so far, I have attained knowledge to help my management style and handling difficult tasks when asked. I want to continue to gain knowledge, just need help financially!

My college experience has earned me a Sales Analyst position at a corporate business in the Minneapolis area. It allowed me to switch my career path from being a social worker to the more professional based society. I will be able to grow and learn from my employer and college in order to open my own business within the medical/healthcare field. While working full time, I will be able to attend Capella full time online. If I had to attend classes in the classroom, I wouldn't be able to reach my short term and long term goals sooner.

It has been valuable to attend because it's a starting point in my college career. I want to attend a four year university, but I lack the finances. I do all that I can to find a job, I apply for scholarships, but nothing works to cover the finances. I am determined to succeed, I want to go to college, and I don't take it for granted, because it's truly amazing to be in college. I just don't have the money. It's too easy to give up, so I'm trying all that I can to succeed and exceed. Despite how things look, I have some sort of faith that everything will be ok in the long run, that I will reach my dream somehow. I don't even know how it'll happen, or if it will, now, due to lack of finances, which is what I have received from my college experience. I guess I just have to find a way to deal, find a way to do make it happen.

So far i have met new people and had life experiences that i wouldn't have ever dreamed of if i hadn't started school. I enjoy learning and expanding my knowledge and i thought i would have been stuck at the same dead end job forever, and if you don't go to college you will. Im going to school to become a pharmacy technician. Now a days its hard to even get a job without some college and with the economy the way it is and so many people out of work its not only good for you to go to college but you need it to even stand a chance against other people in the workforce. They asked us in school why we were attending and i wrote down for my future, for what i didn't have as a child, for my future children, for my future grandchildren, for my parents when they are older and for my future husband.

Out of my college experience I have learned that grades don't come easy anymore . In high school I didn't have to work hard for my good grades but entering college has hit me with a textbook. I have learned that you have to put hard work in order to get what you want. This has proved valuable because it is a life lesson for me . I need to put all the effort into something I truly want and not expect it to be handed to me. In all, college has taught me to really strive for my dreams.

I'm learning the skills I need to in order to become successful.