Carthage College Top Questions

I have been through a lot over my college experience, but no matter what it was I was always helped through it or was cheered through it. My teachers and the great friends I made are always by my side and help me out when I need it and it did not have to be about school. My teachers became my friends, encouraging me and giving me my best options. The teachers are amazing and give you every opportunity for them to help you whether it is them physically helping you or finding someone to help you. They even bring you food for the morning labs. The faculty is like a family within itself and they treat the students like they are apart of the family. The school gave me every option to participate in school activities eventhough I am a commuter. From the buisness office to financial aid and registrars, they always helped me get help with my tutition and if they couldn't help me they would find me someone who could help me. I love Carthage and would never change my mind.

I would say so far out of my college experience I have gained some life-long friends. I know that my friends here at Carthage will be my friends until we are old and wrinkly. I have also learned what it is I want to do when I graduare. I switched my major about three times. I went from wanting to be a journalist, to wanting to be an English teacher, to finally finding what fit best for me. I want to become a social worker. I want to change and make a differnece in the world and in peoples' lives. My advisor and teachers were great resources in helping me decide and make my decision. My Advisor has also worked closely with me to make sure that I do graduate on time. Since Carthage is a liberal arts college I believe it was easier for me to transition from one major onto another. If I had not gone to Carthage I do not think I would have found what career was best for me, and the friends i have now.

i have not started college yet because of my financial aid.

I've gotten alot of information about athletic training and its valuable because thats what i plan to use for the future.

I have learned to become more independent along with responsible for my actions and my money. I have also learned that interactions among students is very important to being successful in and throughout your college career. Entering Carthage has been valuable to me as a person and a student, because the school and its environment allows you to develop important intellectual and social skills needed in the future when searching for a career.

I have been in college for three years now and what I have gotten out of junior college and my four year college is that we are now responsible for our actions. In high school you pay to attend about a couple hundred dollars. Whereas in college, we spend thousands of dollars to recieve degrees that will gateway us into our future endeavors. Being a knowledable adult is what college is about. Being able to delegate and organize your schedule to accomdate your class workload, friends, family, and for some, dealing with a job. Being an adult means you have the power to make your own choices, like the friends you want to spend your time with or what classes you want to take in order to recieve your bachelors degree in four years. It is valuable to get those hard facts that teachers and textbooks push but the hidden keys to life such as responsiblity and organization should be something everyone wants at one point in time in their lives.

Not only has college taught me more about my major and different literary pieces, but has also taught me a lot about myself as well. I have grown both as a student and a young adult gaining her independence. I learn important life lessons while I learn my math and history lessons. In so many ways my mind has been opened up to various aspects of life and education. This experience allows me to get to know myself better while I broaden my horizon of authors, theories, ideas and beliefs. College is truly an experience like that of no other.

I would tell my high school senior self to take as many AP or college courses in my area of study as possible. Also to commit to all of my outside extracurricular activities 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c}. I would tell my high school senior self to get an internship or get a job in my area of study instead of working at my pool. I would also make sure to apply to as many scholarships as possible to help my finicial aid and to save up money so I could spend some at college.

The word frugality may sound antiquated, conjuring up images of mothball-scented woolen sweaters, but I?ve embraced its practice since entering college. Despite having never been inclined to spend lavishly, going to college has stretched my frugality even farther. FAFSA doesn?t hand out thousands of dollars, and campus jobs are scarce and difficult to juggle with academics and a social life. Textbook publishers churn out new versions every year, with exorbitant prices that seem to reflect the intrinsic value of logging in the rainforest. Money's value becomes more apparent with each year spent in and on higher education. Sit-down restaurants are a tempting alternative to cafeteria mystery meat loaf, but the cost is enough to cause indigestion (that meat loaf might?ve settled better in your stomach than on your plate). My high-school self labeled second-hand books as second-rate, but I?ve learned their value for procuring the texts I need for my classes at half the cost. Thrifty advice that I formerly dismissed as my parents? strange and over-the-top ideas have become my tactics. So stoop down and pick up that dusty quarter, because penny-pinching is back in style.

If I could go back and talk to my high school self there would be a few things I would tell myself. First I would say to apply to everywhere that I had any bit of interest in going to because you never know what could happen, and not to automatically attend the most affordable college; money can be repaid but an experience cannot be relived. I would also tell myself not to stick to what I know and to go out of my comfort zone and take some risk in life because life without some risk is not life. The next bit of advice would be to tell myself is to be aggressive and to not just go with the flow, instead attack whatever task is in front of me, be it school or social life, just go for it. Lastly, I would be to tell myself not to worry and to be positive, because whatever decision I make will be the right one at that time and if change is necessary then do so, don't be afraid to change; but the one thing that should never change is oneself, don?t change who you are, be yourself.