Georgia State University Top Questions

To always remember that I am paying to get my education, and not to party or slack off. Get involved around campus, but always maintain your work, and extra activities. Uphold an honorable GPA, and never give up even during your toughest moments. Every struggle will always be worth it in the end, once you have your degree.

Life isn't fair. Never has been, never will be. You decide your own path. Nothing given has any real value - Only things you've worked for and suffered to acheive will have any real meaning for you. You don't have rights. You have privileges. Treat them as privileges. You will appreciate and value them far more. Nearly all the advice you'll ever get is what the giver would do in that situation. Everyone judges. Everyone has biases. Learn yours, recognize them, and learn when they are/are not appropriate. Have many acquaintances, but few friends. Assume anything you tell someone else will end up being known by more than just that person. Don't have sex with anyone you don't want kids with. Learn what you can, when you can. There's no such things as "useless information". Be more confident in yourself. Ask for things - the worst someone can do is say "no".

i would tell my former self, that he needs more money for college. What i struggled with the most school was not the classes or the counless essays that seemed to be assigned every other week. i struggled mostly with finding money to go to school. i had the bare minimum i needed when summer came around and thought that would be okay at the time. I found out a few months after school ended, that i was about $2,600 short thanks to my schools weird way of displaying financial aid. I ended up having to quickly applying for alot of small local scholarships to make up the difference.

If I could go back in time to my high school senior year, I would ensure that I take as many college level courses as possible. I would also go straight from high school into an institution of higher learning, instead of going full-time into the U.S. Military. It would be more beneficial to me if I went into the military already having a degree, because it would have afforded me the ability to excel in rank much faster. In addition, I would also, explore more colleges and universities before making a final selection. I would also apply for more scholarships while still in high school.

To take it as seriously as possible. I went to a four year school right out of high school and ended up changing my major three times before I jumped ship completely and went to culinary school. I'm not saying that going to culinary school was a bad move, it has helped me to decide to get into food research and development and it gave me an associate’s degree in something I love, but I would be that much further to my goal of a masters in food science if I had stayed in the four year collage I was originally attending and gone to culinary school after I had my bachelors. The most common mistake and worst mistake for kids to make is to not take school seriously enough, so they end up wasting time and money and create their own obstacles to their future goals. I don't intend to make that mistake twice.

If I had the opportunity to give myself advice before entering college, I would tell myself that this is real life and you must take it serious. I would emphasize on the fact that once money is spent to pay for tuiton and dorm rooms, it's forever spent. Not being productive in college is a waste of money and loans that you will eventually have to pay back. The social life of college may seem very enticing, but at the end of the day, only the strongest will survive and these are the people that jobs will want when that time comes. I would tell myself to go in with an open, yet focused mind. You must remember what you are here for and work towards that goal because nothing is given. As father always says, you only have one life to give, one life to live, so live it to the fullest.

The advice I would give my self in high school is to not let other bring you down because they don't understand you. For along time I have been letting other putting me down by them talking about the way I looked or the way I dress. Being on campus at Georgia State has really let me know that their is more out and being different is not bad.

I would tell myself not to slack off or cheaet myself out of a good college. I would remind myself that the best things in life dont ever come easy and to strive to reach my goals quicker. Also, to become better disiplined with my studying and with classes. Make myslef get up on time and go to my classes. I would strive to make better grades by doing the work to the best of my abilites nd not to lay around so much. Life is a race.The more disiplined you are the better the chance of winning.

Participate in extracurricular activities! Get involved on campus! Have fun with friends outside of school, but keep school your priority. You can do so well if you only put your energy/mind/heart into it. There's no reason to accept mediocrity when you could instead take a challenge head-on. Keep your head in the game, do your best, and you will succeed.

I would tell myself to become as involved as possible and to take advantage of all the resources that are available. There are so many opportunites to excel and to leave a legacy at you institution. I would say to make a difference on the campus and the students around you. Most importantly, I would say make the extracurricular activities enhance your experience and your resume not hinder it. Students should always think about the future because college life should only last four to five years.