University of Arizona Top Questions

Transitioning from high school to college is a big step for everybody. College is the second chapter of your life. The first chapter ends after high school, the second chapter is college, the third chapter is your career, and the fourth chapter is retirement. Be prepared to have a lot more responsibilities in college. You shouldn’t be worrying about a boy, a girl, what clique you’re in, or what people think about you. Leave those things behind when you graduate high school. Achieving good grades should always be your main focus in college. Most high school students do the bare minimum to get by. In college doing the bare minimum is the worst choice you can make. Most college professors will not put up with the things high school teachers put up with. The work you do in college will determine the path to your career. In high school students rarely take advantage of extra help. Colleges offer many extra help opportunities, so take advantage of them. Make smart choices while in college, take advantage of all of your great opportunities, and get involved on campus. Make your college experience one of the best moments in your life.

If I were a high school senior and I went back in time, the advice that I would like to recieve is to take more advance classes and try and recieve a better score on my SAT and ACT. Also picking and applying to your new college is very exciting but can be extremely terrifying. Do not make a decsion on a school because of someone else, pick it because you know you can see yourself everyday there. Allow yourself time to think and don't just act of your first acceptance letter. Going to college is scary but at the same time it is the next chapter in life and there is honestly no way to prepare for it because everyone's college experience is different, it is our own journey. It's how you make it, just like not knowing what to do when enetering high school it is almost the same situation. Have a positive attitude and make the best of it, it may not be easy in the beginning but the end result will pay off.

If I could go back in time, I would advise myself to do even better academically than I did. College is more expensive than I ever thought, and any scholarships right out of high school would have been a tremendous help. I received a small scholarship to the University of Arizona for my grades, but it would have been much more if I had a better GPA. I wish I realized how important and expensive college was my freshman year. If I only realized this sooner, I would not have ruined my GPA so soon. In addition, I would advise myself to get involved in every extra curricular activity possible. I also wish I were more involved in my community so I could use the activities and events on scholarship applications. Because there is no going back in time, I apply for every scholarship possible and cross my fingers from the moment I sign it until I hear back!

Don't be afraid of talking to people! I know you're very shy and withdrawn, but the only way you're going to get to hang out with that cute guy in Intro to Computer Science or learn about oulipo poetry from your TA is to actually talk to them. If you don't make an effort to talk to your classmates, your roommate, you'll find that they have no interest in you. Don't do what I did--don't have both your roommates move out without a word because they were tired of not being able to connect with you. You're going to college to learn, right? Well, the least you can do is to try to learn from all the unique and different people you're going to meet.

Hello Olivia, I am you in about three years. I am coming to you to warn you about college. The school you will go to is the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, it was a Pac 10 school, but now it is a Pac 12. You will meet so many new people form all over, even form different countries. Of course you will go to parties which is not such a good idea, because when that happens you start to get lazy. I know everyone's going to parties, but you need to stay home and study and remember why you are here. Your first semester will be rocky but it's ok, you will live through it. Now since you've been partying your final grades will be straight C's and one B, not your best. Study! Study! Study and TUTORING! It will pay off in the end. So stay home and away from parties, it will be hard because of your friends going out but trust me, you will be fine, you will live through it!

If I could back in time I would advice myself to really think about what I want to study and map out the classes that I want to take.

If I could go back and talk to myself as a high school teenager, I would tell myself to just be who I am. I don't need to impress anyone, as long as I can look in my mirror every morning and say "I like who I am", then that's all that matters. I would tell myself that it's okay to like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars because the people who do too are the ones you really want to be with. Don't overlook the "geeks" because they're the people who you will come to love most, not the people who are just there for the party. And I would tell myself that it's going to be okay, leaving small town Vermont for Tucson, Arizona is not the end of the world, it's just the beginning of a new one.

If I could go back in time, I would tell myself to not be scared to do something different. Be brave and do what you know is right and make decision carefully. Do what YOU want and do not let any one influence you to do something you do not want to. Let go of the past if necessary. You do not need to hold on to everything; this is a new chapter in your life. I would tell myself to take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way. College can be a great experience if you make the best of it. Get involved and meet lots of people. These people that you meet will be in you're life forever if you choose. Also, meeting people and being involved can give you connections for your future career. Try your best in school becuase how well you do in college has a huge affect on your success in the future. Be greatful that you are even in college and pursuing a higher education. You are so blessed.

I would have definitely practiced myself in to spending a lot of time on my studies. As a high school senior and ready to graduate, I did not take much of my studies seriously. Most of the time that my homework and tests deserved were spent for facebook-ing and other social medias. A whole year of that and I got quite used to it. Of course, it reflected on my grades at the end, but like I mentioned, I was more in to college then than now. I really wanted to get out of there! I felt like college had to offer much more than my fenced high school campus. Little did I know that the offers of college also came with a lot of inevitable responsibilities. My first semester of college was definitely not easy on me. Putting in hours and hours of study time was so hard for me to accept since I had not been doing that properly for a year. I wish I kept up my hard work from my first three years of high school till my senior year so that there would be no specific transition needed in my study routines in college.

My motto today is to work hard and play hard. Be smart and manage your time wisely, it's very easy to get good grades here if you put in the effort. When the tests are done there's more than enough time to relax and have a lot of fun. That way you won't regret anything when you look back on these four fabulous years. You get out of it what you put into it.