Indiana University-South Bend Top Questions

Don't trust everyone and ask questions when it comes to financial aide. Also to keep working hard on my goals, they are within reach.

If I could go back in time I would tell myself to follow my heart in every decision. college will be tough and to take fifteen to eighteen credit hours per semester so that i would not have to rush to finish in four years. also i would tell myself to save money to help pay for tuition for all four years so that i do not have to take out any loans.

I would tell myself to not choose the college I did and not go to IU South Bend. I would also tell myself to go through the trouble of filling out more scholarships. I need to become more openminded about being out going. That I shouldn't just go to school and come home. I should try and branch out and make friends. I would tell myself to not let my friends and boyfriend to affect my college decision. I need to choose the college that is right for me and not for them. The most important thing I would say is to be myself and not be a wall flower. I need to get involved to enjoy the college experience more.

Don't be so preoccupied with grades. Focus more on doing what you. Extra-curricular activities are a huge part of high school. Don't miss them. Hanging out with friends will give the social skills you need to handle constantly meeting new people. Grades are great, but ultimately it's what you learn that counts. Learning comes from more than just academic work. It comes from acting in plays, eating out with friends, rebating with teachers and expressing yourself in life. Academic work is such a small part of high school.

I would tell myself to get into school as soon as high school is over. It's hard to transition back into school mode after being out in the real world. I would also tell myself that college is completely different than high school. I didn't like high school so i put off going to college thinking they were alike but the atmosphere is so much different as well as the people you encounter. I would tell myself not to worry about not knowing what I want to do with my life because most of the freshman don't have any idea what they want to become but through taking courses a focus sort of develops and gives you direction. I would also tell myself to try to try to do well in high school since it can help with getting finacial aid when you go to apply to schools. Being involved in extra curriculars and your community would also be advice I would give to myself because that too can help in attaining financial aid.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself I would tell myself to go for more. To take more classes so that when I enter into college I would have more knowledge. I would encourage myself to try out different sports, clubs, and activities. I see now, in college ,these activites help students out so much and it is a great way to meet new people. I was doing well school, but I would tell myself to study harder, get more help from the teachers! Overall I would remind myself how succesfull I will be if I never give up. College has so much to offer and it's the best thing anyone can do for themselves.

If I could go back in time and talkn to myself about college, I would mention the work load. It is very different to go from being in high school 35+ hours a week to college that has (on average) 18 credit hours a week. Time management can be difficult and you need to find activities to fill this time, such as studyin and clubs.

The best advice I could give myself as a senior would be to apply myself in high school to my studies and go to college immediately after instead of waiting. I would be able to share how waiting to go to school and life affected me. I would share the struggles of trying to provide for a family without a college degree and how hard it is to attain that degree now that I am a single parent and working full time. The best thing I could have done for myself in the past is applied myself to my studies in high school and gone on to college then.

The only advice I would have given myself would have been to choose a major before beginning college. I am a junior and am changing my major, which is going to add an additional 2 years of school.. it just would have helped to be more organized going into college. Overall, though, I am satisfied with my choice of colleges.

I originally graduated from high school a year early and took a year off school so I could start college with my friends. I attended a enrolled in a large traditional university and was immediately overwhelmed with the people I met and the responsibilites of college. My grades suffered my first year adn picked back up in my sophmore year. I decided to transfer to my hometowns non traditional university which is a satelite school of the my previous university. here I have found it is much easier to focus on studies as well as get internships and develope my skill set. If I were able to go back and make give myself some advice it would be to take a broad longterm look at what it is I want out of life and set goals for myself. To take things one step at a time and not try to rush into doing everything at once. I would also tell myself to start my college career at a smaller school and work my way up to a larger more demanding university rather than the other way around.