Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

It took me a little while to figure out exactly what degree I wanted to graduate with. Luckily, I attended a school that had enough choices to offer and ultimately I became thoroughly satisfied with my choice. Now that I have earned my Bachelors degree, I can proudly say that it took hard work, dedication, time and intelligence to earn that degree and I can't help but say that I am now striving to further my education because I know what is available to me now. My college experience was trying at times, mainly due to my lack of focus on education and placing my focus elsewhere. I proved to myself that I had the ability, not only to complete such an honor, but to dedicate myself to a dream that I ultimately was striving so hard to achieve.

I will receive a degree in a field that I love and be able to provide for my children and myself. I am having fun learning new skills and helping my fellow students when they don't quite grasp the assignment. Our campus is not large, so it is easy to navigate and hard to get lost. The instructors and other staff members are very friendly and helpful. I am grateful for the opportunity and excited about my future!

My college experience has been nothing short of a joy. I am currently a high school senior participating in a concurrent study program at my local community college. By my graduation, I will have completed eight courses for a total of twenty-four college credit hours. Of these, twenty-one will be applied to my undergraduate studies at Texas Tech University in the fall. Although the most obvious benefit of this opportunity is financial, I also partially owe my intended major and career to my college classes. Not only have they challenged my personal values by exposing me to a more liberal point of view, but they have also shown me that it is possible to be passionate about my studies. My junior year I enrolled in Lifespan Growth and Development, a psychology course beginning at conception and continuing on until death. I felt a connection during the early chapters, which led me to apply for universities with a major in Human Development and Family Science. I will pursue this for two years before transferring to a Speech-Language Pathology undergraduate program. After my education is complete, I plan on beginning my career by teaching children with speech impediments.

Ever since I enrolled at the college that I'm currently attending, I have experienced many things that have shaped my life. For example, as a college student, I had to be more responsible. I have to make sure I do any and everything necessary to achieve my goals. I also experienced a change in my work ethic; I am more self-motivated to do better in class than I was in high school. My college experience at IRSC has been great and hopefully it will get better by being awarded this scholarship to go off to UCF. This has been valuable to me because I am the first member of my family to attend college. I came to America from Haiti in the last year of the millennium and graduated at the age of 17. I greatly value the fact of being an actual student and this college has helped me achieve many of my goals. Most importantly, I want to get a good degree to support my family and in order to do that, I will need all the assistance I can get. Thank you for your time and hopefully I will hear from you soon!

So far my college experience has been nothing like I expected. I thought college was going to be a fun and crazy time where I don't do much, but it has turned out to be the most challenging time of my life. I go to class, take notes, then come home at the end of the day and study for the rest of the night. Every now and then I go to work for a few hours just so I can help my parents to pay for my college. So far I have learned how to balance my time in college. You are faced with so much free time, but you have to learn to use that time efficiently. Studying is the top priority in college and that is one of the most important things that college has taught me so far.

August 2009 was the starting points of a new chapter in my life yet a difficult phase in my existence. I had recently separated from my husband and took full responsibility of raising my newborn as well as my two year old. Somehow I still found strength to pursue my dreams and aspirations by returning to school after a seven year absence. I look back on the journey of obstacles to now success. I was placed on academic probation due to the grades that were transferred from the University of South Florida. I am very much empowered by the growth and development that has taken place since last year. I take great pride in my education as well as my motherhood and know that all isn’t lost. As single mother who was afraid of change and loneliness, I was able to conquer my fears and doubts only by the grace of GOD. It is a true blessing to be where I am today not only in my studies but at this point in my life. I am thankful that you’ve given me the time to share with you what was so dearest in my heart.

I have learned so much while attending Brown Mackie College. I am going to become a veterinary technician. I have learned so many thing about the anatomy of the animals, as well there physiology. I never knew that there were so many different parasites in this world that animals are susceptible to, and they all look very similar. So you needed a good instructor to be able to differentiate them. As well there are a lot of diseases that humans can get from animals, and even more that only animals can get. The pharmacology of animal medicine is almost the same as human. You have some drugs that you cannot give to animals, but for the most part the only difference is the dosage. Imaging has probably been one of my favorite classes. You are able to see inside of the animal by x-radiation, sound waves, or Doppler’s, etc… It is a very important part of our job description. Knowing your anatomy as well as your directional terms can really benefit you. We have to as well monitor all animals and know the normal ranges for respiratory rates, heart rates, and body temperatures for several different species.

Throughout my college experience thus far I have received personal growth. I am more out-going meeting new friends, and networking to gain future contacts. I am more comfortable standing in front of a class and giving presentations. Also, I have learned more responsibility and time management between attending school full-time and going to work full-time so that I can pay for my tuition. I know that all my hard work and busy schedule will get the degree that I will need to enter the career of my choice one day soon. Most of all attending school has helped mold me into a well-rounded individual.

Honestly, the simple answer would be self growth. College opens your eyes to new and exciting opotunities you have. Through college I learned more about myself through the good and bad experiences. I have learned more about what my intrestes are and what they arnt.

Personally I have been a skilledlaborer all of my life. What I have gotten outof attending college is a warmsence of relief that this is not the endall beall of my life. I can attend an institution, atnight mostly, sit in a warm, well lit, room with attractive young counterparts to myself and really enjoy the time i am spending improving my life. Not everyone walks away with a smile from class. I have been blessed with the knowlege that learning in a classroom is an easy and effective method of really moving your life foward. Without a degree the path one walks in life is bumpy, hardthat leads to varies deadends which always seem so promising atthe time. None of those promises have ever come close to coming true.I never saw the results of an adult having an education, so i didn't think it was necessary to be suscessful as an adult. I started to work in my given trades and lived on my own. Since then it has been a constant struggle to survive. I live in one of the highest cost of living enviroments in the United StatesTo attened college is a privelage for me.

Before this school I was extremely pessimistic about society. I viewed humanity as a negative biological entity, a creature on this planet that has quite literally taken over. However, after my classes and incredible on campus internship, I have learned a new meaning to conservation. Community based conservation is the only future for our planet. Bringing together research, community values, policy, economics and more is prudent for the future of conservation. Colorado State has opened my mind to a new light that has caused an overwhelming amount of ambition and optimism to swell within me. I've learned the true meaning to sustainability, and have come to realize that humanity is not a negative entity; we are simply a system that has gone out of balance. In the end it comes down to the ability to sustain both our natural and human world in one system, and in the end it comes down to places like Colorado State who inspire us all to look for new faces of change.

I believe that the key to a good college education is making mistakes and going the wrong way. What I mean by that is not literally making mistakes in the fact that you fail classes, but taking a broad range of classes - even some that you may not like or some that dont apply to your major directly. Many times, students overlook classes out of thier program because they want to get done as soon as possible and move on with thier lives. Most of the time, classes (ie. humanities classes) that sound interesting to students but are overlooked are some of the most beneficial! Humanities classes and classes outside of your major allow for you to make connections between your major and another while stretching your imagination and challening your mind outside of its normal realm. These college experiences are what set you apart from other students and graduates. Getting a broad education even if it takes slightly longer is the key to a good education and successful future in the workforce.

I have recieved valuable real world experiences by attending Colorado State University. I am now able to live and succeeed on my own, I live by myself and I am thriving. Attending college has helped with my decsion making skills as well as academic. I am better at test taking and speaking in public. Since attending college I have become more confident in who I am and my goals in life. College has helped me discover who I am and who I want to be. After living in such a welcoming, helpful community I have aspired to help others as well. I have learned that I am passionate about helping people, especially children. I am attending college so that one day I can help children with autsim. College has brought me many new friends and life changing experiences that have shaped me into a greater more determined human being.

I care more about my personal interactions with poeple. I find I have become a more tolerant person. One who is willing to listen and learn and not be focused on my own opinions/beliefs. I am more open to what is happening around me, not just academically, but world-wise. Intellectually, I have found this lifelong learner within myself. Challenging myself and delving into issues I never thought I would be interested in. My friends are as diverse as the world around me. I am learning, not just textbook facts, but how to live my life in a way that will benefit the people around me, the environment around me, and my own personal growth as a human being. All my experiences are changing me for the better and preparing me for my life as a contributor to society around me. College has made me a more well rounded person and a better person.

I've learned how to manipulate where a person looks on a composition, how to use negative space well, how to look for shades and highlights to successfully capture an image and put it on paper, and how to become more free and open with my written words. I have become more used to driving, how to keep a schedule, and how to socialize more easily with others. Learning how to express myself more thoroughly has been valuable, and although all the skills I have acquired so far still need honing... everything contributes to my dream of becoming an animator.

I have always known that I will go to college; I just haven't always been so sure what I would want to study. When I finally got to college I knew that I was where I needed to be before I started my own life. Along with learning a lot about my chosen field of study, I have also learned a lot about myself and the world around me. Just thinking about being on my own for the first time made me reconsider going to another state for college. Once I arrived there, however, I realized that I would be able to take care of myself. My first semester I was taken to the emergency room for appendicitis, where I realized that I am capable of making major decisions on my own. The whole college experience has been very valuable to me, because in my opinion it has prepared me for the real world far more that high school. One major thing that attending college has taught me is that you can't expect more that you ask for. In college there are so many ways to get help with almost anything, you just have to ask someone.

I have gotten out of my college experience so far that it is not all about the academics. Sure, classes are important, and they are very important for me since my ultimate goal is to get into physical therapy school which is academiccally challenging. But college is about more than the classes, it's about making lifelong friends and learning how to make good decisions. It's about learning to juggle more things at once. It's about learning responsibility, discipline and integrity, in and out of the classroom. Mostly, it's about discovering who you are, who you want to be, and how you can get there.

i just recently started summer schoool at Tarrant County College, and my experience in this school is pretty great. I learned that without studying you won't succeed in school, but this school doesn't really make me feel like I'm in college, because it seems like I'm still in highschool, being undocumented is the only reason I am in this school, because going to a four-year school isn't in our budget, and our status is currently getting fixed, so with a little help I think I can get further rather than getting stuck in this two-year college.

I recently returned to school after getting married and having three wonderful children. Attending classes again has given me the confidence to continue with my passion in the Political Sciences. Receiving my BA will give me the boost I need when I decide to retun to the workforce. My previous college experience when I was much younger was nothing more than a social outlet. I made some really great friends that I am still in touch with but the actual real learning didn't start until the last year when I decided to go back to college for myself and not because it was what I suppose to do.

Being a good college student is not about how much money you spend to go to school. It is about the determination to do well and succeed. I believe that I am a great college student because I have been out of school for about three years, and realized how important a quality education is. Organized and driven, going back to school would be a life changing even for my future family and I. In January of 2008, my family suffered a financial hardship and I was unable to attend school. I spent my nights crying over this and now that I have the opportunity to go back to school, I feel truly blessed. I never really had the chance to have a college experience because my family was always worried about how we were going to pay for it.