Carthage College Top Questions

My college experience has been valuable to me because it helped me to learn more about myself and what I am capable of. I have taken classes that have broaden my views on things and helped me to better understand why I am the way that I am. I have gotten involved in many things and have made long lasting friendships and memories to last a lifetime. I have never regretted a moment I have been here and would do it all over again if given the opportunity. I hope that every student that comes through here has the same experience that I do. This is a great place to get a good education as well as have a good social life. Alumni are very helpful and loyal to this school for a reason, they enjoyed their college experience and still love to come back.

There are things I didn’t know I was going to experience in college except for studying a lot, meeting new people, and living with another person. I learned that it’s really hard to focus on your work especially when you have a lot of things in your mind. No one is forcing you to do your work or even attend your classes. In college you learn how to take responsibility like handing in your work in time, attending class and being on time, paying your fines, going to work on time, and etc. Most of this I learned in high school but instead of being with my parents I am on my own in college. The college experience is basically a step to experiencing how to live on your own without your parents around.

As well as a lot of specific knowledge related to my majors and minor, my college experience has provided me with an abundance of intellectual stimulus. In studying particular subjects, I have nonetheless been practicing the art of thinking in general, and I can now approach even those subjects which are new to me with confidence, as I have learned to think critically, in an organized manner, and thus effectively. Further, in being ever challenged, I have been shown just how much I am capable of, and by the time I finished my senior thesis, I found that I have been well prepared to go on to graduate school, as my research may be said already to be the kind of serious and professional scholarship which will better the academic world and my life alike. In addition to scholarship, however, my college experience has reminded me of the value of friendship (which, indeed, I had forgotten) and cooperation with my classmates and professors. Never before have I felt to such an extent that I am part of a community, and I have thus been prepared, not only to make a living for myself, but to live a life worth living.

I have gained so much from being away at school. I have learned many things like independence and empathy. Most importantly, I have learned passion. I have been told that you should pick a career that you love and that will bring you happiness. I have found that sports marketing is what I am meant to do for the rest of my life. It combines two things that I really enjoy - marketing and sports (specifically hockey). I am very excited and enthusiastic when it comes to learning more about marketing because I know it will make me a successful in the future. I am so glad that I was able to find my passion at Carthage. I entered school having no idea what I wanted to study but I am confident that I have made the right choice. I hope everyone will learn to be passionate about their career and future, because it is the best feeling in the world!

I have grown a great deal since I have been in college. I have learned as much about myself and other people as I have learned in my actual classes. I have become both more responsible and more independent since entering college. These skills and life lessons are not things that can be learned in a classroom and will stay with me for the rest of my life and will always help me, probaly more than my classes ever will.

The whole reason I decided to attend Carthage College was because I wanted to learn Japanese, and it was one of the only colleges that had sent me anything that stated they offered Japanese. When I later found out that Carthage was also relatively close to my home, yet far enough away to feel I was removed from my "normal" environment, it pleased me more. Since high school, I have felt that the best way to learn and grow as a person is to try something new, to break whatever comforting bonds one has to their state of "normal." By going to a place that was removed from my home area, I felt like I could do so. Also, since I wanted to learn about and go to a country on the other side of the world, I figured it would be a good place to start my journey. While I feel that Carthage has not been the best possible decision since going there, I still believe that it was good for me to go, especially for my Freshman year. I made friendships and met people who changed my view on the world, and that is what I wanted most.

I have gotten the opportunity to apply myself farther than I ever have before. In college, I am able to apply myself to my strengths, and work as a team with others to create things that alone, would be near impossible to make possible. I have learned more about myself, and about others. In the next 3 years of college, I plan to focus my strengths into the area of Physics, and hopefully, work towards something that I have never dreamed of. I have also learned that many things in this world are not possible to accomplish by yourself. The only reason that I am able to go to college is because of the generous donations and support of people in the form of scholarships. I have gotten the value of generosity, and have learned never to waste on opportunity, and not to take things for granted. Everything could be gone in an instant if the wrong decisions are made. I have learned that hard work and persistence is needed to accomplish my goals in life.

I have gotten many things out of my college experience so far. I have gained an education, new friends, and above all countless numbers of other experiences in all aspects of my life. I have learned what it is like to be "on my own " and how/when to ask for help. I have learned many things about myself, and have gotten a much better look at who I really am. College has been one of the best and most rewarding experiences of my life so far, and I am very happy that I still have two years left of it to enjoy and to grow even more.

College has been a valuable experience because it has allowed me to step out of the world I was accustomed to and be immersed in a whole new group of people with different attitudes and backgrounds. It has also taught me a lot about responsibility and self-motivation. Without college I would never have been able to work with the professionals that work at the school. Many of the experiences that have gone along with these people I could not have experienced any other way. I have learned so much about life and relationships, it has really made me more aware of myself and of the people around me. It has made me really think about who I am as a person and what is important to me in my life. It also has made me realize what kind of person I want to be and has brought me to a path that will surely lead me there if choose to continue following it. I have no doubt that I will continue on this path of life.

Since returning to school earlier this year, I have learned to be more responsible. Unlike in high school, I now care about my future, and work on my homework. I have also met many inspiring students and teachers who have helped motivate me to be what I want, instead of someone flipping burgers. College has rekindled my childhood dream of producing films. I hope that with these scholarships, I can continue to attend college and earn my degree in Film, so I can go on to live my dream.