Lane Community College Top Questions

You will be friends with the people who you least expected, and will come to find yourself more happy with solitude than going out with your friends all the time. You will start to see that time is very limited and you should spend a lot of time with the few people you really care about. You never know when that person will have something out of their control happen and end your contact forever. The last thing I would recommend to myself is going directly into college. I can save you 5 years of your life by telling you that even when you do get a white collar management position with your own office, it is only then that you will realize you have hit a glass ceiling. You are not educated enough to progress into administrative duties of cooperate management. You will feel as though you are going to be in the same position inevitably, until you resign from your position and dedicate yourself to education once more. You will succeed and do well in your future, believe me I know.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior I would tell myself not to waste any time. Taking time off from school to give yourself a break or work more hours isn't worth it. Get to school now, get your degree and get that career that you want, not just a job. I kept telling myself after high school that I didn't NEED to go to school. I did have a really good job, but when the job market went under and I lost my job the employers were hiring people with degrees because they can be picky about what they want. I am now getting into the health care field because that industry is not going anywhere.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself senior year I would say "John, keep doing what you're doing but whatever you do, when you meet a college girl at a bar in a couple years who wants to continue dating, DO NOT DO IT!" If high school senior John pays close attention to this advice and concentrates on doing things that only brings him closer to his goal of graduating college, than everything else will fall into place. Distractions and temptation are the toughest thing John will have to deal with in his journey to complete school, but if he can avoid these things, he is gifted and intelligent enough to graduate college and excel in whatever occupation he decides.

I feel that if I went back and talked to myself as a senior I wouldn't have that much advice to give me. During my senior year I preped myself for the transition into college life by talking with the college advisor at my school. Every visit I made with her I became more comfortable with making this transition. I can honestly say that college is everything I expected it to be. I am glad that I used my senior year to my advantage, it has made everything more easier than if I would of had to go into college knowing nothing.

If I could go back in time and talk to my high school self, the only advice I would give myself is not to give up on the idea without putting real thought into it. I'd tell myself to give the idea of college a chance, and perhaps I might even grow to love not just the thought or idea of going back to school, but the classes them selves.

Lori listen to your parents and and teachers . They tell you every day that you should focus on your rades throughout high school. Those grades are going to greatly assist you in obtaining scholarships instead of owing so very much in student loans that you struggle for years to pay off. Take as many language classes as you can as it will excel your college years and give you a jump start for university level entrance requirments. Develop strong and disciplined study skills now because when you get to ollege you will find that the structure is so very different and it is easy to fall behind causing undo stress and a strain on your grades. Your going to love college, the people are great and the atmosphere empowering. Enjoy your education and strive to learn. Lori be sure and plan your college future now, well in advance, it will save you time and money. Above all, if you have any questions or feel lost and confused, ask an advisor or a counselor for help. Do not be afraid to ask questions because teachers and staff thrive on helping students to succeed. Learn to dream and dream to learn.

If I were back in high school, I would have applyed for more scholarships. Knowing that tuition keeps rising applying for more shcolarships would have been really helpful for me. Doing more volunteer work, and participating more in the clubs would have been a good experience for me. I would have started thinking about college earlier instead of waiting until i had graduated. Also would have started to look into colleges and finding the right one for me. Knowing what I wanted to become, and volunteering in such places would have helped me alot. Overall I believe making early future college and career path choices is a important part towards success.

Focus harder on making your transition to college a lot easier. Sign up for more scolarships, and find a better job. Also, take more classes that give college credit, because in the end High School is just a buffer to get to College.

The transitional period from high school to college was very hard to ease my way into. In high school, I had a daily routine which I basically followed from the earlier points through my years of education. Wake up, getting ready, making sure assignments were done; that was the basic routine. Everything else was easy to follow. We had easy assignments, handouts to help us study, and make up assignments which were great. Coming in to college, I did not realize how serious this world could be. You're basically on your own. Sure the proffessor helps you through the steps, but you have to go home and make sure you read the assignment or do the work, there is no making up of anything. If I could go back and tell the high school self how it really is, I would make sure to force myself to study. To not only rely on the handouts or the make up assigments. I would tell myself to be prepared for anything; that anything can happen and just because so I can at least be prepared for what to expect.

I would fill my head with the knowledge I now know. I would guide myself into the Biblical principals that are there to protect us and keep us in line with God's purpose in our lives. If I had been filled with this knowledge as a young person, I believe that I would not have gone in the wrong direction in relationships. I would have had a much more solid ground to stand on, and I would not have been as naive and gullible in my relationships with people. I would have prevented a lot of suffering in knowing and following the guidelines in the Bible, and I would have experienced more blessings, as a result. I would share the depth of my knowledge and experiences that have pointed me in this direction and share why I believe what I know now and how this has set me free, to a large extent. I would encourage myself to not "follow the crowd", but to follow Jesus. Also, I would educate myself about the enemy(Satan) and to know that sometimes things aren't good because people, sometimes unknowingly, follow him and his lies rather than Jesus.