Florida International University Top Questions

Plan ahead and don't procrastinate it can stress you out more than it should!

College is a different experience, anything you worried about now, you won't be worrying about later. You won't have teachers screaming at students telling them to sit down or stop talking. On campus you are respected and treated as an equal. Your ideas are taken into consideration and your opinion matters. Studying is important, in fact, it should consume most of your time; however, don't forget to unwind once in a while otherwise you will burn yourself out. Never give up, just because something seems difficult is not a reason to quit or drop a class, you can do anything you set your mind to. Talk to your professors, they are there to listen, and they are there to help. Remember there is no such thing as a stupid question. Join a research lab, you will benefit greatly from it. Experiment in different fields and find out what is best for you; the applied or the research? Do as much as you can during your next 3 to 4 years there. Join as many extracurricular activities as you can handle, without bringing your grades down.

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If I could go back, I would have lived on campus. Living on campus gives you so many more opportunities to make friends and become socially involved on campus. I am close enough to home that I would not have lost that contact with my family.

Having a 4.0 is not that hard if you make it a priority, and the benefits are well worth the effort. Take advantage of every opportunity available, and you will find that the possibilities are endless.

When applying for college, look not only at the field you think you want to study, but look also to the kind of courses offered in other fields. Take into consideration the area, the scenery, the town. These seem trivial, but setting is truly very important in your college career. Talk to some alumni or current students before you go and meet with potential faculty mentors to get a feel for the attitudes and interests of the place before you commit to a final decision. This is a 4 year commitment, it is like a brief marriage and you will have to work for your part, but if you follow this advice, it will make many aspects of those 4 years run much smoother.

i wouldn't have much to tell myself. My transition to college was very smooth. I would have told myself to work a little harder on my math skills. I would have told myself to be more open to the suggestions of the adults who were trying to help me better my studying methods. I would tell myself to find help to try and discover what i want to have as career because adulsthood and responsibility is closer than i can imagine.

I would inform myself that Florida International University is a good school and I will grow alot. I would remind myself to get inloved as much on campus and I can off campus and that grades always come first, show myself how to use rate my professor and not allow myself to take early classes.

don't fool around with scholarships and take it seriously as if it were a job. fooling around and cutting class doesn't cut it here learn to actually do something for yourself rather than because you have to. once you get to university not all professors care , actualy most don't care how you do so if you pass or fail they don't care as much. if you flunk out of here there is no safety net to save you because this about you and no one else, you go as far as you push yourself and thats the truth. you don't have to go to class or do homework and no one will make you do it or give you a hard time about it and that really is a curse as much as a relief. remember what you want and what you gave to do it will help you find out where to go and help give you inspiration why to attend class when you don't have to.

Enjoy the last years of high school life because they dont come back. After high school if you want to be sucessful in the future you need to get serious and not goof around. College is serious business. There is time to have fun but school is more important than anything else.