Quincy College Top Questions

You might want to reconsider the Armed Forces. Why? This might be the great push, guidance and structure needed to allow your talents to best be utilized early on. I know you said that you could see yourself as a “Business Woman” but years later, you ARE a business woman but unfulfilled. Why? It’s because was no "greater-than-life" reason. Sure, you made lots of money in sales but in the end, you were still looking for more. Why? Well, although you excel at Mathematics, Science and Math are inseparable. You are more of analytical than most and your talents are best suited for this. As a student progressing towards the life of a Researcher, you have not looked back. Everything you do revolves around this passion. It’s life itself. Little did you know, your path has been leading you back to it but it has prepared you to do lots more once you get your PhD. So fret not, it’s not all for none. It’s all for All. And of course, it’s all good. Science is where it is, where it was, and where it always will be. Math just helps out.

If I could go back four years ago and talk to 17 year old Colleen I would tell her to prepare to spend much more time on homework. I would also tell 17 year old Colleen to save as much money as she could before college started because I don't have 30 extra hours to work a week like I did in high school. I'm lucky if I can squeeze in 15. The most important thing I would tell myself as a senior however, is to enroll in the early childhood education major my first year of college. If I had known as a senior I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher I would not have changed my major 3 times and I would be finishing up a bachelors degree this instead of just an associates and I would have wasted a lot less time and money.

I would tell myself, to listen to what i really wanted and not to my parents. And to try to find whatever way possible to pay for school, through scholarships and financial aid.