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You have done everything you can throughout high school to prepare yourself for college. To be successful in college, you will need to be organized, disciplined and involved. Manage your time wisely. Be involved in student government and other ogranizations on campus. Challenge yourself. Build relationships with your teachers and administrators. Make new friends. Most of all believe in yourself and your abilities to achieve your goals. Stay confident at all times. You will get out of college what you put into college.

If I could go back and talk to myself I would tell my self to make a final decision as to what I want to do with my life. With this being my third university I wish I would have picked this major to begin with. Now I have a lot of debt and it is still not over. So the thing I would tell my self is pick something you truly want to do and stick with it or take a year off. Because of the debt, I just hope all the money put into Chatham, truly pays off.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself to choose to attend Chatham Univeristy. College life at Chatham is easy and up beat. There is no stress about drinking or partying. Chatham is truely a school that allows me to be who I want to be.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself to get involved in Chatham. As a senior in high school, I was stuck in an abusive relationship for about a year and a half. Being in this relationship greatly affected my transition into Chatham and prevented me from making all the friends that I would've liked to. Finally, I got out of this relationship two months ago and I have been the happiest I've been in a long time. There are so many great opportunities at Chatham that many people don't realize, but as a graduate student once told me, "CHATHAM IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT!"

Throughout high school I was a very involved person and enjoyed the different activites I participated in. However during my first year of college I thought it be best to not get too involved and focus more on my studies. But, the truth is that your first year is the best to get involved and meet new people, and experience new cultures or ideas. Here at Chatham University there are several opportunites to get involved in that I wish I would have started my first year, because not only was the course work the easiest in the first year, but I lost opportunities at great experiences. So my advice is that college is the best time to live your life, try different experiences. Yes academics are most important, but if you don't live life and take advantage of new experiences and opportunities you will not be ready to enter into the real world after your education is complete.

The advice I would give to myself and others would be when making your final decision, look at the big picture, as well as the financial picture. Pick a college you feel comfortable at, that has your major, and that you will not be in debt. The way I viewed it was I would not pay more for four years at school than I could make in a year at my first job. If I made $60,000 per year, I have $10,000 per semester of college I can take loans out for. Students should also take work study if it is offered. This is free money to students to use to pay off school without having to take it out of pocket. Go to a college that is not only financially right for you, but a college you can see yourself excelling in while doing great things. College is one of the greatest experiences of your life, it does not matter where you go, whether its community college or a four year university, it's what you make of it and what you choose to do there that makes all the difference.

I would have told myself to study harder. A challenge is ok and actually a good thing, not something to run away from. You must keep focused on your goals no matter what and learn to loosen up a little. You are going to meet wonderful and interesting people, so don't be afraid to make some new friends. Life gets much harder after high school than you think, stay at the top of your game and don't falter, or you'll regret it.

I was very shy in high school, and it's harder in college to make new friends going to a new town and all neew people, so I would have tried to be more outgoing and talked to more people. I also would have taken my classes more seriously and tried to get the most of out them. Wanting to major in Interior Design and art related, my high school didn't offer many classes of that sort, so I didn't really care about my math, english, etc. classes as much. But, all in all I think I did okay in high school considering they didn't offer classes related to all different careers.

The choice of a women's college over a co-ed is exciting and new. Conflicting accounts regarding the effectiveness of a women's college education bombard anyone conducting a simple Google search. (Is it inherently patriarchal or does it allow for an encouraging learning environment?) To my high school self, I say anticipate creative dating options and cross-register in the first semester of your sophomore year so that you get a full year of the women's college experience but also take advantage of larger schools' (University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University) diverse classes and, yes, guys. Going from high school to Chatham can be jarring, but ultimately a same sex environment frees classroom discussion, and whenever professors pose the question of whether students would prefer a co-ed classroom setting, I answer in the negative, as do almost 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my classmates. It's a unique experience, and at Chatham a rewarding one.