Lewis and Clark Community College Top Questions

Relax, focus, and work hard. College is much different than high school and the things you worry about now as a high school student wont matter when you get to college. You ARE bright, you ARE beautiful, and you WILL succeed at everything you put your heart and soul into. You are bigger than what you think and you will push yourself hard and sometimes want to break, but what you will accomplish will make the hard times seem minuscule to all the good things that come out of it. You can do it even though right now you think you truely cant, you can. People do change and you may have to remove some people from your life to keep a level head but it will only make you stronger as an individual. The people that stick by you are the ones who help you succeed at not just school but life. Always stay positive and remember the end goal is to be doing sommething that you love and also makes you happy. The people you will be assisting in the future as an Occupational Therapist, will apprecite you for all the help you provide them.

If there was one portion of advice I could give to my former self it would be not to take my high school classes for granted and apply for as many scholarships as possible. When I was a sophomore, I really slacked on my school work. I didn't fully appreciate the fact the all four years of high school are equally as important as the next. The compiled GPA one earns from high school could be the single most important factor when it comes to qualifying for scholarships and being accepted into the school of your choice. The GPA you accumulate directly affects how much money you'll be able to receive for college. The higher your GPA, the more scholarships you'll qualify for and the more money schools are willing to give you. In addition, the higher your GPA is, the more likely you'll be accepted into the school of your choice. I wish I could go back in time to help myself achieve my goals more easily. But, maybe I can help someone else by doing so.

It's never going to matter who likes you, only how much you like yourself. You should never give up. Don't hate them, they arn't going to matter. You are going to forget their names by the time you are twenty-five. Take the time to think about situations from every possible angle, you can always find the right way to handle something if you give yourself time. One day you'll have a grand track record for making things work. The pain will never go away. You are always going to miss your mother. Every event that happens, you will feel the loss you have experienced. She can't hold your childrens hands, she isn't going to watch you get any of those awards you recieve, she wont watch you graduate, she will never come over to your house on a random sunday morning and drink coffee with you. She also wont be there to see yourself through the bad situations: when you become a single mother, and when your father gets cancer. It is always going to hurt, but it will be okay. You will find that you can overcome anything because of her.

Standing in the time machine, as I hit the button for 2005, I contemplate deeply while nuerons fire uncontrollably within my brain. I ponder thoroughly and wisely pick and choose the words that I'll hand over to young Fatima. Alas, I smile to myself knowing that I've grasped the vital few words that will change the life of my "youngin" self in the future. The time machine swirls, screaches, shakes, and soars through the unknown dimensions of the universe. Finally I hear a loud "THUMP", and the doors open. I lay eyes upon young Fatima and I run to her with a tight embrace. I tell her " you have to listen carefully woman, because these words will change your life". I expain, "Time is important because in college you have to use it wisely. Procrastination will lead to an unpleasent grade. Organization and neatness are also very important. Papers placed messy in folders will lead you to be tense. Placing your chemistry homework in your math folder will lead to confusion. Friends and family have their own time and place. Study, eat healthy, and give yourself a break at times. Also, never cheat because honosty is rewarding." BYE!

Although it is different for each individual, at some point we all grow up and realize that the harder you work in high school the easier it is in college both academically and financially.

Sheri, don't worry so much. It's okay that you don't know what you want to do with your life yet. Lots of people change their mind about life careers and sometimes life throws a curve ball. What you wanted to do wasn't what you thought it would be. People get fired or laid off. Nothing in life is certain...but death & taxes. Take computer classes. That's where it's all at. I've been to the future & I'm here to say that you made a few mistakes. those are learning experiences.

I would tell myself to do what I am doing right now beacuse I am saving a lot of money and I am getting a better education than the student who go to big universities.

If i could go back in time, I would tell myself how important it is to take things seriously and do them promptly. I would also say that giving up is an answer to nothing, to not be ashamed to go to community college, that it's not the end but actually the beginning to a better life for myself. The only way to feel better about yourself is to do something to improve yourself, not thru guys or any myriad of other material things.

Looking back to freshman year I never would have seen myself as I do now. I don?t regret anything that has happened but I would change something?s. First off, I would have stayed true to the ones I may have betrayed. Popularity may be a product of most teenagers? happiness mine included. High schools are a prime place where peers exist and people can easily be different this giving you various cliques. A clique is your friends and how you and they are labeled today to today by the peers around you. There are many High School cliques, but very few being the nice cliques. The clique you?re in pretty much describes who you are as a person. Being comfortable with myself is one more thing I wish I had done better this I time here. I would have cared a lot less about what other people thought of me, because I have learned over the past years here at Southwestern, in the end people are going to say what they want about you. People will take every opportunity to criticize you whether you deserve it or not. It is just part of life.

to study harder so I would be able to have more scholar ships