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As the first in my immediate family to attend college, the entire experience was daunting but a risk and a challenge I was willing to take. In 1991, I visited the University of Oregon and Western Oregon State College to see what felt right. Ultimately I selected Western with the intent to teach but ended up transferring to Chemeketa Community College. By 1997, I completed an Associates Degree in Nursing ; now, thirteen years later, I am a wife and a mother and wish to continue my education. South University has helped me actualize that dream. In the beginning I had hoped to make my family proud as I pursued a career which suited me. Now I have the chance to provide a positive example for my son. I hope to teach him how to value an education and to take advantage of all the opportunities we are given in America. Taking our talents for granted is not acceptable; we should cultivate our gifts into something more, no matter how complete we think we are. Upon completing my Bachelor's Degree, my son will better understand this lesson through my actions, and I will also have grown.

What I have gotten out of my college experience is knowledge, the desire to keep learning new things, and not to let anything hold you back to achieve your goals. It has been valuable for me to attend college because it improves my personal value as an employee to be able to receive a higher wage and possibly a higher position within a company. Attending college has also been valuable by making me a good role model for my children, family, and friends.

The college experience has taught me to research the "truth" by myself. I think it's valuable for me to attend - not only because I want a degree to change job fields - but because I want to make myself a more knowledgeable person.

College is the first big step you will take in a series of steps called the rest of your life. Life is serious and to be taken seriously but, not too seriously. Make lots of friends and build a support group. Call home often and remember, your family is only as far away as the telephone. Yes, it's okay to call home at 2:00am, especially when you are having a nervous breakdown. Count on your friends to always tell you when you are studying too much. Study as much as you can but remember to have fun, too. The library is your friend so is your professor. Make friends with yourself and discover who you are. Take time to look out the window, study the sky, and see shapes in the clouds. Live on campus, it helps you learn what you are capable of doing. Live, laugh, learn, and love that which is called college.

If I could go back to my high school years I would advise myself of this: Always be diligent and put your best foot forward.Remember that going to college is taking the step toward improving and making a stable life for your adulthood.Be dedicated and attentive at all times, concentrating on the work at hand.You must be prepared for obstacles and be able to overcome them with ease learning a lesson from each of them, whatever they may be.Going to college can be a fun experience as well as a learning experience, but do not let the fun take control.You are there to prepare for the rest of your life.

Always apply yourself and do what you dread the most first. Attending college while in High School helped me prepared for a later decision to return to school and complete my degree. being from a family where both were teachers I find the discipline is still there after all these years and that learning is still fun, I am proud for that foundation. If I was in High School, I would tell myself that I should have never dropped out of college and that I could have continued on because I am deemed to perservere and overcome regardless. Follow your dreams and they will become reality! Do not get married pursue your career would be the first and then when life gives you lemons, make lemonaid. I have learned that I should have listened to my parents and aas a parent myself, I hear myself saying the same directives! I will succeed, regardless.

If I had the opportunity to go back and talk to myself as a highschool senior I would tell myself to find what I want to do in life and go after it 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}. I would warn myself to make good financial decisions and avoid any credit card debt and keep my student loans to a minimum and to not waste any money on unneeded items. I think the biggest thing I would stress to myself is to not allow myself to get complacent with my situation and allow it to dictate to me what I do. Avoid the influences of others to participate in activities I did not feel comfortable with and to focus on my work at hand. Putting in the work early will make my work later easier as the classes build on each other. Try to enjoy the experience of college life as you only get to do it once and stay the course and be positive. Negativity only breads more negativity.

I would have pushed myself to go to college right after graduation from high school. I really wanted to go however life stuck its ugly head at me and during my senor year I found myself homeless and no where to turn I had a great principale that help me to see the importance of seeing things through. I had a lot going on and lived in a old van and completed high school and began the process of diging myself out of the hole I was in. Looking back now I could have done the same thing in college and not have wated twenty years. Thank you for this opertunity, Daniel

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself that college isn't as easy and as laid back as you think. College is hard and it requires self descipline. You can't hold anything off until the last minute and it's not worth it to fail a class. I am currently paying for my own college degree's and if I could tell myself one thing it would be to do really good because when your spending your own money, it puts you back into reality.

Paul, college life can be very hard on you. So I would advise you do three things before starting college: become active in a church ( GOD will get you through any problems), take a psicology course somewhere, and finaly take up meditation ( rather then drugs or booze). THe most important advice I have for you is to BE YOURSELF!