Collin County Community College District Top Questions

Don't get so strung out about dance department auditions. This is not your path in college and there's no reason to be upset. Work hard in all of those art classes you're taking right now and take advantage of the access you have to materials. When you get to college, you have to pay your own way for the same materials sitting in the art supply closet, and they're expensive. Don't focus so much on what's to come, and try to live in the moment. Work hard on the classes you're taking now as opposed to planning what classes you'll take in the future. I know it's fun to plan ahead and make lists, but sometimes you just need to get back to reality and sort out your current priorities. Don't worry about finances or losing the house. Dad will get a job soon and everything will work out the way it's supposed to. Also, don't apply to transfer until your sophomore year. You won't have enough credits to transfer before then, so don't make yourself believe that you do.

As a non-traditional student who has returned to school after twenty-seven years, this experience has opened my intellectual eyes. I learned that there is so much more to my world than I could have ever dreamed. My history classes taught me of our countries early years while at the same time my government classes showed me our Nations trend for the future. My art class exposed me to the art and artist of the past and present and taught me how to appreciate every piece with my interpretive eye. These experiences cannot be achieved anywhere else in the world except in college, at an institution that is based upon the exact words of higher education. Each and every book that I have read has opened a whole new exciting world to me. Even though I’m a student, I’m also a mother. As my children were growing up I always told them they could be anything they wanted to be, they just had to want it bad enough. I decided to take my own advice and follow my dreams of becoming an archaeologist. Going to college has literally changed the course of my life forever!

My college experiences have given me opportunities to not only prove to myself what I have or should have achieved during my youth, but also shown me how much the young take education for granted. It has deepened my resolve to strive for perfection and lead by example. The experiences have been a gift. A gift much like an opportunity to look through a window and see things and learn things from a different vantage point that the youth have not begun to master. I have a unique position to not only learn from my professors but also help to teach the fresh faces that have only begun to see the world the way it truly is. There is a special place in my heart for the professors that give unselfishly of themselves to teach. I cannot bring myself to merely coast through the curriculum, but push myself to a higher standard. It is difficult to lead a family and pursue an education that is twenty years behind course. But the effort is invaluable to me and the ones that I pass it down to. My learning experiences are the measure of the soul to deepen the breadth of discovery.

The advice I would give myself would have been to go out of my box and do more activities with people I didn't know. I would have loved to be more social and do activities with more students; I unfortunatley did not get the chance to meet. I would also have been more focused and worked harder than I did.

If I could back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, knowing what I know now about college life and making the transition, I would actually chose not to give myself any advice. I feel as though that I was greatly prepared for the new life I started when I began college and my transition was extremely smooth. Also, the mistakes that I've made so far in my new life have only shaped me and taught me lessons. Without those mistakes, I may have never learned those lessons and I would be missing out on new knowledge.

Looking back now if I was able to give myself advice in high school it would be to be more driven and go out there and find a way to go away to college. In high school I always assumed that I would just go to college somehow but because of financial reason I had to stay and go to community college. Myself in high school needed to be more assertive and not rely on my family to send me to college but find away myself. I should have done all that my senior year of high school but since I did not I am going to take my advice now and find a way to go away and have a true college experience.

If I had the ability to go back in time in order to coach myself about what is to come, I would definitely advise myself to not to take this special time I will only have once in my lifetime for granted. I have always worked for what I have and unfortunately I have never been able to fully experience my teenage years and I really regret that. I would tell myself to enjoy the time you have with your friends and to appreciate your educators more, because with their consistent effort, you are continuing your education to be the successful young person they set out to accomplish.

I would tell myself to take a math class my senior year. I would also tell myself not to be afraid of college because at least community college seems to be an extension of high school. College is not scary.

I would probably tell myself what major I should go for in the beginning of Freshman college so I would not have to had change it so much. I also would have told myself that it's important to pay attention to when homework is due. In high-school teachers would always remind the class the day before something was due, but I've barely ever had a college preofessor that has. Your expected to be much more on top of things and forgetting just isn't an acceptable excuse (even though it's a big transition from High-school to College and you're not used to your environment, your profesors or your work load). I believe that knowing I was going to have to structure my own study time around life, and remember when exactly everything was due would have been very helpful. I probably would have been able to stay more on top of things and would have been able to get better grades.

To take thing a little more serious and get involved in more extra curricular activities.

I have often repeated that phrase to myself over the last 20 years but not nearly as much as I have over the last 6 months. As an 18 year old, I had my whole life ahead of me. Unfortunately, circumstances occured, my parents died. I allowed thweir deaths to prevent me from completing my education. I wasn't smart enought then. I thought I had it all worked out. I was wrong! Now, that I am 45 years old. Now that I am a college student again, it's actually very simple. What I would tell myself, 27 years ago is, stay in school, no matter what! Don't let anything get in your way of the education you often dreamed about! Don't think you know it all! Do whatever it takes to finish! In the end, it makes it all worthwhile!

If I could go back to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself how great starting off at a community class could be. It is very helpful to ease my way into college instead of jumping straight into a university far from home. I am glad that I decided to ease into college because now I am not worrying about living alone, doing laundry, and everything alone with leaving home on top of the work that goes along with college. I would lastly tell myself to not waste my time taking all those SAT tests since I did not need it to get into community college or when I planned on transferring.

This is a tough question to answer in only 200 words. Only a year ago, I was a senior sleeping until 10 A.M. every day and breezing along through my classes with seemingly nothing to worry about. I let my GPA slip to a 3.1, the lowest in my life and procrastinated often. Knowing what I know now, I would tell myself that college will not be this easy. You have to work extremely hard and put everything you have into every assignment. Also, I would tell myself that college should not be about the partying. Some of the schools I selected were based on their rankings on "Maxim's List of Party Schools." College is not a time to party. College is a time to expand your knowledge, and become more mature while doing so. A year ago I was clueless. I never knew what college would bring.

I would tell myself to make sure and study throughout your entire college career instead of partying and slacking off the first few weeks. I would also advise myself to go to a junior college for a year, and then transfer into a university in order to cut down on freshman year tuition and fees. These two pieces of advice are things I wish I could now do, because if I had before I could still be at John Brown University instead of Collin County Community College where I might not get as good of an education as I could somewhere else.

If I were a high school senior and could do it all over again, I would definitely make some changes to the choices I made as far as attending college. I started out at Tyler Junior College my first semester, and due to the fact that I didn't put enough of my time and energy into researching this school and what was important to me, I ended up hating it and moved back home to go to community college. One of the most important things you can do is to make a list of things you are looking for in a college, because if you are going to put so much work into getting there and basically spend your life savings there, you mind as well enjoy it. Things you may be looking for would include a certain type of sport, a public vs. private school, small or large. Another thing is apply for scholarships like crazy! Also, don't be afraid to ask questions. To my gained knowledge over the past semester, the more people you may annoy, the more questions you get answered. Most importantly though, DON'T settle!! Find the college that fits you the best!

The advice that I would give myself is to work my hardest with everything that I do. In the past I never really worked up to my potential because nearly everything came easily to me. I was satisfied and quit working if whatever I did led me to achieve a passing grade. However now that I'm in college, I realize that it's not just about grades and passing, but to work my best to show myself how amazing "my best" can really be and that I'm capable of achieving more than what I thought I could do. It's a great step in growing up and learning more about yourself. If I could go to the past, I would tell myself to not stop working just because it's simple and efficient, but to work harder to make it complex and wonderful.

If I was given the opportunity to go back in time and give myself advice as a high school senior, I would start by telling myself to get involved in more senior activities. Although, I have some great senior memories there were a few activities that I chose to skip out on, that looking back, I wish I had taken the time to be apart of. Secondly, I would advise myself to stay strong in school through the very end of my senior year. I made good grades but I admit that I did slack off towards the end simply because I was so ready to be done. Finally, I would tell myself to be more open to meeting new people my first semester of college. I am a very outgoing person but the first part of my first semester I didn't take the time to get to know my classmates as well as I should have. College is very different from high school, and so far has been a complete blast!

High school graduation was a monumental moment for me. However, it took growing up and many, many years later for me to fully appreciate the fact that I had graduated from high school. I didn?t do very well in school back then and it was only by a couple of points that I managed to acquire a diploma. I now have a thirteen year old daughter who is about to go into high school. She has struggled in the past. I have made it my goal to make it her goal that she will be involved and practice good study habits. Unfortunately, regret is what comes to mind when I reminisce back to those years and remember how uninvolved I was. If I could go back and give myself advice I would tell myself that I needed to work harder and to take the time to study more. I would tell myself to get involved with school projects, sports, clubs etc. I would let myself know that I can do it and to have more confidence in myself. My daughter definitely has an advantage and that is parents who will always support her.

Don't wait. There are many things that can be put off in life. College should not be on that list. Time goes by so quickly before you realize it you have settled into a career that has very few options for advancement. It is much more difficult to switch gears later in life and once you have settled into life. Regret is a weight not easily left behind. Everytime I look at the past few years I wish I would have done things so dramatically different. I feel like I wasted years of my life. Use your time wisely always looking to the future because before you know it, it has become the past.

If i were to go back in time i would tell myself that college is an investment and you shouldn't just throw your money out their and not put any effort into what you have invested towards. Studing is a major part of college and should be done constantly and you shouldn't just try to flow through school.