Covenant College Top Questions

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Although its been two years since I finish high school, I'm barely starting college. I know the plan was to graduate and attend college right away. But it's my fault for not showing interest in anyhing. It's something you're doing now. Interacting with people will fix that. You don't want to experience the disadvantages of being friendless. I recommend joining a few clubs. That will help you gain friends, volunteer hours, and experience. You'll be thanking me once you start filling out your resume. Now getting a job won't be difficult. Being employed makes it easier once you start college. But that doesn't mean you won't need the help of scholarships. So look and apply everywhere and don't give up even if it looks difficult. Keeping all this advice in mind, there is one very important thing left. Never put down your camera. Keep taking pictures and don't lose confidence. The world of photography is a big place, but we will both make it. My life is barely beginning. So while I'm working towards our future career. I hope you're one step closer to our dream.

Your environment will change. You, however, will not. Whatever skills, issues, and faults you had will stay with you; picking up a High School Diploma does not mean your long baggage train of habits, tendencies and interests get thrown out with your old locker contents. Yes, the faces around you will change, the expectations placed upon you will change, your social life will change, but you will not, at least initially. It is often said that college is an excellent way to reinvent yourself: You suddenly find yourself surrounded by new people who never knew you existed up unto a few minutes ago. However, it isn't that you're some new person. You simply have a fresh social slate. No one knows who you are or who you were, other than you. Knowing yourself, which includes all your past successes, failures, strengths and weaknesses before you make that academic commitment is key to your future success. Why? Because if you don’t understand yourself, if you don’t take time to work through your past and who you are and see potential bad habits, then chances are you may become someone you don’t want to be.

I would tell myself that I should put more time and effort in the little things, academiclly. I would encourage myself to get involved in a community college to get as much college credit I can before I graduate. The biggest thing I wish I could tell my highschool self is to apply for much more sholarships. Even the smaller awards all add up. If I would've done that I could've been much more relaxed finacially.

I would tell myself to be a more active in learning how to write papers. I would advise myself not to be so standoffish with people and to get to know them faster. To be more confident in what I know and to work hard to learn as much as I can before coming to the college. I would say that I need to get into a better study habit and learn how to take notes. Last of all to learn to trust God, he always pulls me though when I need to be pulled and holds me back when I need to be held back.

Take advantage of every opportunity that is available to you. Learn to study and work at everything you do.

Learn to study more! Social life is great, but friends can't be your main priority!

Go to school everyday and apply yourself!!! It is very important to maintain this self dicipline to help ensure a successful future!!!!

Finishing my sophomore year at college, I've finally started to adopt a frame of mind I wish I'd had when I stepped onto campus two years ago as fresh high school graduate. If I could go back in time and tell my clueless self one thing, it would be this: College is about learning, not technicalities. It's so tempting to make my only ambition a deadline, a page number, a big red "A." But these things only exist to facilitate the true aim of higher education--that is, EDUCATION. Learning. Knowledge. Exploration. I'm here at school to challenge myself, to shatter the boundaries of my expectations and prejudices, to listen intently to the words of seasoned scholars and to question fervently in search of new ideas. These are the things I must keep in mind when I find myself striving to satisfy a number rather than striving to throw my heart into the pursuit of knowledge. Listen up, younger self! Don't fill that page with letters just to meet a word count; don't worry about getting a B-minus on a hard assignment. Absorb yourself: Use these opportunites to stretch your brain, to grow.

As a high school senior, I was very comfortable with my circle of friends and thought college would be a great way to meet new people and form immediate, comfortable friendships. I chose to go to a college where I knew no one. The worst times of my life were first semester at Covenant because I did not branch out and meet new people. To transition in college, one needs to try different things and branch out beyond comfort zones. Sign up for random clubs and meet new people, go to hall meetings, partcipate in intramurals! I also would emphasize the importance of doing well in classes. It is important to do as much reading as possible and to stay on top of papers and tests -- in retrospec, be organized!