Spokane Falls Community College Top Questions

Get out of your shell. Yes, you have an amazing group of friends, but they are not the only people out there worthy of your time. Find people who will challenge you to be better, encourage you to try new things, and get you involved in the community. Dedicate part of your time to helping others. Time spent even just listening to a frazzled friend is more valuable to them than you can imagine. The more support you give, the more you gain, and that is something that is going to be critical in college. Do not loose touch with your family. Once you move away it will easy to get caught up in a life out partying and spending every spare minute studying. Do not neglect the people who have been there for you from the start. Your parents, grandparents, and siblings want to hear about your triumphs in school and they want to help pick you up when you get knocked down. Just pick up the phone, even if it's once a week, and make an effort. You already know you're a smart cookie. Good grades will happen, but make sure to keep yourself supported.

I would tell myself to spend 3-4 hours on campus, out of class, in order to study. I didnt realize how much I really did need to study outside of class, until it was too late. Now I need to retake several classes in order to fix my GPA so that it will reflect what I really am capable of. In high school, I was a top student, and I got good grades. I thought that I was taking school very seriously. When I got to college and had the same high school mentality about my classes, I realized that I needed to buckle down and get much more serious about schol. Now my GPA does not reflect what I really can achieve, adn thats very upsetting. I would tel my high school self that seh needs to remember that college is NOT high school.

I wish I could have told high school me that there's no shame in going to a community college. I remember hanging my head and thinking I was a hopeless failure--that was simply not true. I was so sure it wasn't bullying from my senior classmates--they were too old to be bullies, right? I was very wrong--I should have stood up to them rather than letting myself be a victim. High school me should have been proud that I had a plan. I want to tell high school me to face this challenge head on and take the bull by the horns, and face the bullies, telling them my life choices are mine alone. I probably would have enjoyed the challenge of high school and realized my potential and the stronger side of my personality much sooner and spared myself a lot of grief.

I would explain to myself the amount of self help and with the dignity to give the heads up on how big of an transition i would be making to rely on my own intuisition. I would say to myself the work I would be doing to make an effort in obtaining my potential career and to stick to it tell the very end and work hard to achieve excellence is a key in making it out in this world because things aren't going to hand to you on a silver platter. I will give myself the courage to achieve those goals and not make the same mistakes that I had when on the road of a college career. Because without the knowledge at hand I would make a repeat of myself in talking to myself.

Don't stress to much about attending college, it isnt as scary as some people say it is. You'll actually love it and do so much better than you have ever done in high school. Do to the fact you missed out on some important classes during your high school sophmore and jonior year becuase you were hospitalized from a car accident, you"ll have to get a transfer degree first before going to a four year college. It may seem unfair as a high school senior but you'll actually be happier about it. You'll have more time to officially decide on what creative career fits you best for the life you want. You'll start to love school for the first time in your life and find out which friends are true friends. The down side in your transition to college is you don't realize how much it actually costs till you have to pay for it . School is ridiculously expensive and you'll have to pay even more because you have to pay for your extra two years for your transfer degree. Just believe it will all workout in the end and dont stress.

Taylor, I've come back from 2014 to tell you that whatever you do, don't go to WSU right out of high school. You need to know that you have ADHD, Social Anxiety, and suffer from a form of Autism. This is why you so often feel awkward, and never seem to have enough air to speak, and also find it difficult to complete assignments in the amount of time it should take. You're a bright kid Taylor, but you need to get some help. If you go off to WSU, it is going to be too much of a culture shock. You're dormitory roommate is kind of a jerk, 200-plus students crammed into a lecture hall is not as easy as it sounds, and you will get an infection that ruins your chance of advancing. Also, engineering is really boring, and you won't find anybody helpful anywhere. The only real tragedies will be not meeting Brad Stephenson or Dr. Rob Snyder, and not reading Robert Nozick's The Examined Life in Dr. Snyder's class. Take Philosophy at SFCC, and even if it's not required, buy that book anyway. You'll thank me!

I would go back in time to tell myself that you can make friends wherever you are in life, and just becuase you and you're friends go to different school's does not mean that they aren't going to be your friend. Friends will always be friends, seperations happen, but there is always room in life to create a new friend. I would also tell my younger self that you do not need to worry about what you want to do with your life becuase you are young, and just need to enjoy life for that moment becuase soon that moment has moved on and you can never get it back. Enjoy the time you hve with your best friends, and always find a time in each day to bring a little joy to somebody's life. The best days you can have are the days that bring happiness to someone around you. That is the most inportant thing anybody can do in life, is make somebody else smile. I would tell myself that you can do anything, but the most inportant thing is to make the people around you feel good about what the day might bring.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, it would be to convince myself to actually believe in myself and follow my own heart. And to remember my favorite quote by Tolkien: ''It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.' I put off college until graduation because I lost sight of who I am and what I want to be trying to finish high school, and as such, I allowed myself to listen to those who doubt my ability to make a career with a degree in history. The second thing I'd tell myself was to finish my remainder of Latin, instead of leaving it at only half a year. I need Latin in my line of career! Never listen to the doubters and naysayers, but follow your heart.

Yvette, although you have done okay for yourself you should have done better. You always thought of being in the medical field in some way and you should have stuck with that. There is no doubt in my mind that you wouldn't have any trouble adjusting to college life because you are a military brat and you were meant to adjust and adapt. You should have done better in math and science classes because that would have been your ticket to a successful future. Oh, and you actually have to study in college. College professors are waaaay different than high school teachers. You are actually responsible for yourself and its on you if you fail. That's why you had to take a few classes twice. Your mom is going to want you to persue a master's degree...I would hold off on that. Occupational Therapy arena may be the way for you to go. Good call on not having kids...that will sooo save you! Having a boyfriend is not all what its cracked up to be. No one is worth making your grades suffer. Now go forth and be awesome, Yvette! You do have a purpose!

If I could go back and give myself some advice it would be to not go. I would take a year or two to work, travel, and learn about myself and the world before I made a choice. Just because teachers, parents, and classmates all think that school is what comes next doesn't mean that it has to happen right away. There is much more to life than going to school and getting a job, take time to do something you love. If you don't love school and don't know where you want to go then don't. There is no better time than now to make mistakes, you have the backing of your family no matter what so go do something great.