Southern New Hampshire University Top Questions

Pedro, I am here to tell you that in the changeover: it is essential for you to calculate and keep track of your expenses. Your finances are extremely important because they will pay for your food, gas, textbooks, and tuition. Alongside with tracking your capital, you should also schedule out your days accordingly. With a life schedule in tact, you will never have to worry about missing an assignment or failing a test. With that being said, remember that the force that drives you to do all this is how you feed yourself. Eat healthy and make sure to include meals in your schedule. The upheaval of your new college lifestyle doesn't necessarily have to be stressful. With hard work comes play, just make sure it's not done to an excess and only on those weekends. Oh, and academically speaking, make sure you follow the specific classes for your major so you are on route to graduation at a faster pace. Pedro, if you follow all this advice, your first years of college will be an immediate success.

I would tell myself that SNHU is definitely the best choice for me. Not only do the professors care a lot about their students, but they genuinely want to see them succeed and reach their potential. It's very easy to talk to professors, ask for help and really work towards your very best. Attending SNHU isn't a mistake and has been the best decision of my life.

I would tell myself to ease up and not be so hard on myself. Its not always about the grade. That high schoool was great but college will pose a whole new set of challenges and goals. That good things will come. That I will be faced with challenges I did not count on but I will get through them, grow from them and be a better person because of them. That I will meet the girl of my dreams and have the time of my life pursuing my passion. To enjoy the people that I meet, the places that I go and the new experiences I will have. I would tell myself to step outside my comfort zone and take some chances not to over think and to sometimes just let go.

If I could go back in time, I would tell myself this: "Give it time. It might take a while for you to find your place, but get involved and meet people as much as you can. Making friends will make the transition so much easier. Work hard in all of your classes-even the gen eds that you don't necessarily want to take. Make connections with professors and other students because you never know how it will help you in the future. Most importantly, take yourself seriously, but don't forget to have fun. Get out of your room and experience new things."

I would tell myself to have patience. I had rushed graduating by graduating a year early and by doing so i had eliminated some very important life lessons that a lot of students learn during that final year of education. College introduces a lot of new stresses into life that are not as easily avoided and It would have been better if I had taken the time to prepare myself better for these new stresses.

Assuming I had the ability to go back in time and talk to myself about the transition to college, I would choose not to talk to myself. Every decison I made my freshman year in college has made me the person I am today. Since I choose to attend a college where I did not know one person, the group of friends I choose was a direct reflection of who I am. These decisons have impacted my life in such a positive way that although having th ability to talk to myself about the transition would make it easier, I think that was important to learn from the decisions I made. College is a time where there is very little guidance and every decision we make is a direct reflection of who we are as people. Having the ability to talk to myself would alter the person that I am today . I believe that the transition to college was very difficult, but ultimatlety it was something that was very neccessary. I can say that I used the transition to college as a stepping stone to develop who I am as a person without having any persuasion from people around me.

the advise i would give to myself would be to get out of my shell and talk to as much people as possible, dont be afrid to try something new and dont be afied to make mistakes

If I were to go back in time and talk to myself as a senior in High School, I would tell myself to get out meet people, go to a small college get basic classes out of the way, possibly achieve a certificate, dont eat as much and exercise. I would want to meet people because they could help you study, help when you need it, talk to them when you not feeling like yourself, get rides home if you live far and their going the same direction. It's also pleasant to go home and get a little break from studying. Go to a small college and get basic classes out of the way, that way when I transfer to a university I can go straight to enrolling into college classes. Finally, to eat and exercise daily, exercising releaves stress and from reading or studying so much you'll need to releave some stress. In conclusion, that is what I would tell myself as a high school senior going back in time, meet new people, go to a small college and get basic classes (more knowledge) out of the way and not to eat so much but excercise frequently.

I would advise myself to study harder, expand my interests more and soak up as much as I could. Having left high school after graduation to raise a family, it took me thirteen years to complete my BS in my 40's. I would tell myself to really investigate all the opportunities available here and abroad and to get more experience about the world before I made my decisions on how to manage the rest of my life. I thought that college meant I'd be tied to a desk for another four years, spend a lot of money and wind up in an office. I now realize the opportunities I let pass me by and although I have since graduated, the experience was not the same. Attending college opens up a new world of questions, answers, pursuits, interests...and has been invaluable to me with regard to new ideas, ways of thinking and my perception of the world around me. I am an active, eager student of all things now and have gained the appreciation that I lacked as a teenager, for how complicated, fast and intertwined our world (and lives) really are.

If I could go back in time and tell myself what I know now , I would tell myself to focus more and study harder in order to get better grades. I would tell myself that I should apply to college in advanced instead oif at the last minute.