CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College Top Questions

My advice to myself, is that life is just beginning. We as people don't know where we are going to be a few years from now. No individual has their future set. Everything we do from choosing what we have for breakfast, to taking one route to a place, to even what we wear affects our future. If you should take anything seriously, it is college. Education is a once in a lifetime type of experience. When you are sitting down in that classroom, you are looking at your competition around you. these are the people one day you may be competeing with for a job or a place at a higher institution. Do your absolute best in the classroom, and write down everything that is important. Sometimes the 3 letter phrase, can be the 20 point answer on one of your exams. Don't waste your time on your phone and never use your phone during a class, it will only distract you. That status update is not going to feed you in the future. Pay attention to everything said to you by your educators, and aspire for being a better you, is the advice i would give.

I would look back at James from 2012 and tell him, "The only person who can limit you is yourself". If you do not take advantage of the chances you have at hand you never know where you may end up. But if you do take the chances, your possibilites can be endless. Whats the worst that can happen if you shoot for the moon? You may land on the stars. So never stop learning and please start reading and learning about work citation, it will hold you back in the long run. Till then I look forward to what you become.

I would tell myself that you are gonna do good, you are going to be successful. Also that I should go under full time instead of part time, and get a job before I started school.

You shouldn't have taken one year of school off because if you didn't you wouldn't have had to take a rememdial math course and you probably would have aced the test.

First of all, i will be thrilled with the fact that i made history of going back in time. Then i will tell the younger me, to never doubt yourself despite the challenges that stand in front of you. I will also encourage the younger me to aim as high as you can and challenge youself every single day. You mind is your way out.

The advise i would give to my past self would be pay more attention in school, because if you don't you will not truely understand everything. When parents and teachers give you advise listen, because what they are telling you are from past experience that they went through that they dont want you going through as well. We all make mistakes that we have to deal with and learn from it, its only so much mistakes that you can make before its too late to change what has already been done. I know having a child at a young age is struggling, but you can do this. Now look at you, you graduated from high school and made your daughter and, yourself proud just to finish through the first step in life. Now your moving on to the second step which is college even if you cant finish fast like everyone else, as long as you know your trying your best to accomplish your goals in life you are on the right track to being successful in life.

If I could go back in time as a High School senior, I would gotten more involved with not only school life, but also explore any opportunities outside of the school and think far outside of the box. I also would have tried by level best to not allow any obstacle or barrier prevent me from doing whatever I had to do to move on and seek more education. The advice I would give myself however is whenever I have any assignment or project due, I would rather allocate more time than necessary to get things done ahead of time because doing them at the last minute would extremely stressful and tiring. No matter what barriers I may have, I can always prove myself wrong, that I can overcome anything challenging and never surrender. If I surrender anything becuase they are very difficult, then I will not be able to try them and will also miss out on challenges, rather I would end up depending on the easy stuff, which shows that I am not entirely ready to face challenges in life.

Due to the fact that I imegrated to the states 6 years ago, and I had little options to choose from- I'm happy that I went to college. BMCC helped me to jump high and transfer to a much better academic institude! So, my advice to myself will be: go and finish it ASAP, because you can do it!

In life you will face a lot of unexpected situations which will put you in a position that you never saw coming. However, do not panick because everything in life happens for a reason. So stay calm and think positive thoughts so that you can accept what had happen and move forward in a timely manner. So go ahead and start putting things into perspective so that your life can make sense which will propel you towards a new plan. Additionally, just keep on surfing the wave of life by keeping your balance whenever you are face with a failure, obstacle or setback so that you can achieve the level of success and greatness that you desire. Most of all, just enjoy the journey and never forget where you come from and the people who had help you get to where you are today. So go ahead and have fun and be safe too by living in the moment free from stress, doubts, worries and fear. Through it all in the end, when you are on the top floor looking down and reminscing on the journey that you had took to get there you will be beyond proud of yourself.

I would tell myself that I should always get no less than a B in classes.