Central Washington University Top Questions

First attending college at the age of fifteen, I had other dreams I wanted to pursue. I did follow those dreams and had a successful career racing bikes. At time of retirement, I then realized my next goal was to return to school and achieve academic excellence in an area I know I could be a strong contributing member in society. Since my return to school one of the most important things I have gotten out of this experience is the realization that it is never to late and one is never to old to learn and to return to school. The ambition I have for learning and for helping others has surfaced exponentially in my pursuit of my dreams. What has been most valuable for me is the discovery of endless possibilities we all truly hold and sometimes need a push to see. With faith and a dream anything is possible.

Out of my college experience i have gotten the chance to live on my own and learn how to make good decisions without having my parents around. I have learned to become more independent and less of a procrastinator. I have also learned the importance of schooling and from going to Central I have become more focused on my studies.

Attending college has been the best and most influential decision of my life. I have already had numerous oppurtunities to develop my academic interests and abilities and to really transform myself as a young scholar and a person. Being in a competitive pre-medical program has given me the drive and competition I need to become a valuable part of society. I have also learned much about myself and how I am able to organize well, be thorough in my actions, and try my best at all that I do. I know that I will have to work hard throughout my entire life and being in college has prepared me for that. I now know that I AM capable of doing and accomplising anything that I set my mind to and I will succeed. Even if I don't the first time, I know to pick myself up and try again.

Attending Central Washington University has been a fantastic experience for me. I have had the unique opportunity to take part in the Experience Leadership Project. This allowed me to meet new people before school even started, and I learned how to become not only an active member of my campus community, but one of its leaders. Also, as part of the Douglas Honors College, I enjoy the benefits of being one of the scholarly elite. My classes are interdisciplinary, which allows me to explore multiple avenues of study in a single course. This is extremely important to me, as I have not yet determined my major. Living on campus is teaching me to be independent and responsible. I am discovering just how challenging it is to be an adult, but I relish the opportunity and am taking full advantage of it. I am learning to listen to myself and do what I want to do. This is helping me learn who I am and what is important to me, which will be critical in choosing my major. College is a completely new and enequaled experience in my life, and I am extraordinarily grateful for this incredible opportunity.

My college experience hasnt been all that people say its suppose to be. My teachers are great and the work load isnt much, but it just hurts that i havent made any friends. I feel like if i went to a university that had dorms, i wouldve made so many friends and had a great college experience. But being in a college im in doesnt allow me to this. Hopefully when i graduate from community college i would be accepted to a great university that would allow me to feel like im really in college.

My college experiance has been great. In the short time that I have been on campus, the greatest skill I have learned is time managment. Coming from High School my time managment skills were less than par. But since being at college I have learned how to manage my time. I have also learned to interact with many diverse people. I believe that college has prepared me for life, and I would suggest to everyone to go to college.

My college experience has given me a small taste of how much independance and self motivation is needed for success. Success can be variable only determined by your goals. Living on my own teaches my that only I can do everything, and if i don't get everything done, then it is my fault. I am accountable for my actions.

I have gained so much out of my college experience so far. But this was all done through attending school everyday. By attending school everyday, you gain the advantage of learning all you can. Whether its learning about your subjects or learning life lessons from your teachers, the most important thing is being there. Because if you dont attend, you wont get anything out of your college experience. Thats why its important to attend Ouit of my college experience, I have learned that school is the most important thing to take part in. College is the way to really get on your own and get your life started. College has really taught me how to be an independant student. Meaning taking care of my work and studies on my own. Thats the most important thing I have learned out of my college experience, is becoming an independant individual.

Foremost college becomes the tool of which high school has fallen facetiously short. It is to me redemption of what intuition I lost in a childhood of indoctrination. Church, when I was born to eighteen, was a spongy pillow into which soaked any questions and logic until flat and empty without will to learn I lay in bed with a paper-god. High school was not different. Having accomplished regrettably little, I graduated a statistic of illiteracy. My father retired from the Air Force when I was eighteen, and an abrupt relocation put three thousand miles between my sleeping intellect and those who lulled it. I was so far out of my comfort zone that I enrolled in college and saw who I wanted to become in the professors under which I blinked my illusions into vapor and pored—pored through more paper-gods than I could have imagined in my bucolic childhood. To sit before a man who has spent his entire life at pursuit of mastery in fields of which I am only scratching the surface and delve his mind, that is the libation of college. And that is for what I now live my life in thanks.