The University of Texas at El Paso Top Questions

So far from my college experience I have learned study habits I will carry on to my hopeful future of attending Medical School. I have also learned small valuble lessons of life that have helped me become a better person and a better rounded student. With this said I have now challenged myself to raise my GPA above my expectations so I can have a better chance at succeeding in the future and have challenged myself to obtain a better job for myself so I can raise my standard of living. This school has taught me how to deal with so many problems from fixing my grade to getting tutoring so I can understand my work and get a better grade in my classes. I have learned from this school that a great mind can fail but a trying student can succeed beyond the expectations and even surpass a great mind.

I am a recent graduate of El Paso Community College , having earned my Associates Degree in Psychology with honors and membership to Phi Theta Kappa ; El Paso Community College has helped serve as a stepping stone to achieving my dream that seemed to distant when I was younger. Being a Social Worker is my true calling and my life's ambition. Helping people while doing what I love seems ideal. While attending El Paso Community College, I had the opportunity to work within my field in various ways. I participated in a program called Service Learning where I was able to volunteer at Cima Hospice while also earning college credit. During my time at Cima, I visited patients at numerous nursing homes and served as a companion and a support system for a few of the patients. Mrs. Ringgold was one of those patients who not only changed the way I looked at life, but also have me the confidence to know that the field I was choosing will be the right one. If I would not have attended El Paso Community College I would not have the opportunity to help others while making my dream come true.

My college experience has been an eye opening one. In High School I was us to be pampered by my teachers and counselor. They would push me on my school word and remind me of deadlines. Now I feel I?d have had to grow up from my teen ways and become an adult. The instructors are not you best of friends and if you forget your home work to bad. I am now responsible for myself my actions and have to push myself and meet the entire deadlines which are required of me. College live has been a valuable experience because now I understand the cost of a college degree and the responsibility which comes having to pay a lot of money and my sure you get the best education out of it.

I would have told myself to never settle for anything. Grades, friends, in sports, or anything else. I slacked off when in came to scholarship opportunites, and I believed it was my parent's responsibility to pay for college, but I am just as responsible for it as they are. I regret not taking the opportunities given to me. I would slap my past self in the face, and tell me to GET TO WORK AND STOP BEING A LAZY BUM!!

Because college life is really expensive I would tell myself to apply to as many scholarships as I could. I would also tell me that I would need to study more and to challenge myself to do better.

Well, if I could go back in time to the me as a high school senior i would tell myself to fill out more scholarship application because college life is way to expensive. I would also tell myself to go to a phychaitrist and ask him if he could check to see if you do have ADHD and then when he says that you do have ADHD, and he will, ask him if he could give you medication to be able to control your self and be more attentive in class, because here in college if you are not paying attention and you do not have control over your self you will be left behind and be forgotten.

If I was able to go back in time and advise my senior self, I would tell me to stop being lazy. As a senior I kept my grades up but when it came to college I didn't keep up with dates as I should have. As a senior you're so focused on prom, graduation, and the senior trip that the fact that college is right around the corner never hits you. If I could I would tell me to get on the ball and get some scholarships done so that I wouldn't have to be applying for so many now when I could have been doing most then.

The chance to go back in time to give myself a few tips would all but worsen things. I would like to go back to when i was a freshmen to tell myself to ignore the life that I was going through and tell me to focus on mathematics. Since I was going to be an engineering major I would tell myself to learn everything possible about the field of math. I would tell myself to determin myself to get the most scholorships available to me. The best advice to myself would be to focus ten times more on school than I did.

Since my first year of school, I have always been the type of student that would give one hundred percent in every assignment. Just like many seniors in high school, I hit a point where I slowed down in the number of activities that I participated in. Although I continued to do all the work I needed to graduate, I felt that I didn't have to do as much as I used to do in the previous years. If I was able to go back to this time, I would tell myself not to slow down because that is when I should be doing all that I can to get into a good university. Teachers told me that I had everything that I needed to get into an elite university, I just had to dedicate the time needed to get through all the paperwork to be accepted and receive scholarships. Being a typical high school senior at the time, in my mind I felt that I had plenty of time to do everything. In reality, the days were just passing by and I did not give the one hundred percent that I have given throughout the years.

The first piece of advice I would tell myself is to follow what my head and heart tells me. Don?t let anyone else tell me where to go for college because in the end it?s my happiness that will be affected. I would let myself know that the transition is going to be hard because it?s a totally different experience, but it's nothing I can?t handle. Its part of the journey of shaping my life and the person I am supposed to become. I would change my tone and make it a point to make myself aware that I shouldn't procrastinate for it's because of procrastination that I will not receive a 4.0 GPA in my first semester. I would tell myself to not let college and other personal problems get the best of me because in the end it?s going to make everything else that much harder to deal with. So when things get tough and unbearable I would advise myself to take a break and just breathe. The last thing I would tell myself is not do everything alone because in the end you never truly are.