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I would tell myself i need to listen and concentrate on my senior year. It's the most important to help me get into college and persue a career to help benefit me in my future. I did horrible in high school and im now having trouble in college. so definately cocentrate and apply for as many scholarships as possible to help me.

The status of the school does not always portray what the school os about, so make sure that you find a school that you feel at home with and one that you are easily able to see yourself attending. If you are lost during the student visit day, then you may be lost during the semester. Look into what the college offers YOU, individually, not just as a student, but as a person that has qwerks and opinions.

I have gotten alot out of college thus far, i have learned that in college is where i get the real scoop on universal issues and life. It has really opened my eyes and has caused me to start thinking outside of myself, and the life i live in today. I feel challegened and i get to grow , learn, and become inspired. school has also played and important part of my adulthood, i say that because in every class i take i learn more of who i am, what i believe in, what i dont believe in. Whatever i have known in that past to be true, professors help to better understand and lern more about my beliefes. I have also been able to find amazing friends, apart of being in school allowed me to find people that i enjoyed being around. Every year i find that my groups of friends change, and it reflects the inside of me. So, i will sum it up by saying. School is hard but worth it.

I have found that college, especially obtaining a nursing degree, is very difficult and requires a great amount of study time and work time. I can see why nursing takes a great deal of discipline and dedication. It has been valuable to attend this school to show me how important it is to go to college and work hard. It has also been valuable to attend to acquire a degree for a safety net, in case my career choice changes, I always have something to fall back on.

At Huntington I have been able to grow spiritually while learning the basics of what every student at a liberal arts college learns. Although classes have been interesting and informative I have found chapels and other worship times even more interesting and educational. Every professor somehow incorporates God into their lesson almost everyday and it is just good to see how He can really be involved in all things. I have also been blessed with a great group of guys on my floor that all praise God for everything and we all worship Him together.

To this point in my college career, I have been able to learn much more than just academics. Yes, the education has been great, and I have learned things in the classroom I could have never learned outside, but more importantly I have grown up. Learning how to live in a community has taught me so much about myself, and so much about how the world works. Going to college I have gained life-long friends that are more than just people to hang out with, they are people I consider dependable and always there for me. Before going to college, I depended on myself for support and for answers, in college I am able to lean on the great relationships I have developed to help me understand and gain what I need to know in order to accomplish my goal of being successful in the real world one day.

My college experience so far is incomparable to almost any other college experience. My freshman year I attended Taylor University Fort Wayne with plans of attending it for my entire four years. Sadly, that school was shut down, but we were allowed to finish out the year. So that year became focused on what community really is. I was able to bring that here to Huntington University. Between these two schools I have learned that there is so much more to a college education than papers and tests. There are people, there are questions of identity, understanding, faith, world views, philosophies, mottows, life long friendships to be formed and found. In my college experience I have learned to roll with uncertainty, to work towards investing in every interaction with my fellow students, I have learned that at some point one must choose what the focus of their life will be. We have to choose between investing in people, in lifting them up, or focusing on the paperwork, the grades, and our own personal agendas for that day. We have to decide what is most important to us, the lives of others or papers and office work.

College gave me the confidence not to know the answers. Before I came to school, I saw everything as black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. It had to be one or the other. Grey areas made me uncomfortable. But today I can see all sides of an issue -- as there's usually more than just two -- and feel comfortable with not taking sides. I can evaluate what makes the good arguments good and the poor arguments poor, but I am not required to make a definite conclusion on which one is right. That is the most valuable lesson I've learned from college. I don't have all the answers, and I don't have to.

If I could talk to myself as a high school senior about the transition to college, I'd tell myself that it won't be what I'm expecting. Sometimes it'll be better, sometimes it'll be worse... but mostly it's just different. I'd tell myself to hang in there through that rough first semester because it gets better in the second, no matter how hard it is to believe in the first semester. I'd tell me to study hard and work hard, but to take time to goof off and do nothing with people sometimes. I'd say not to take Chemistry, Western Civilization, and Writing all in the same semester. I'd tell me that I'm actually going to college, and that I'll like it, though it won't be where or when I expect it to be now. Mostly though, what I'd say about what to expect is not to expect anything, because life never ends up being the way I expect it.

College life is portrayed as full of cliques. There are the nerds, the jocks, the frat boys, the suck-ups, the theater people, the people-obsessed-with-their-grades, and the music people. All the movies indicate this is true about college life. But here?s what I say: it?s true, to an extent. In college, it?s natural for students to gravitate toward people who share similar interests. It?s easy to form cliques. My advice to any high school senior is this: try to float from clique to clique. Hang out with the nerds, but also spend some time with the theater people. Get to know a jock. Don?t commit to one clique, but make friendships with people from several cliques. Now, before you say this is impossible, know this: I am an athlete and a mostly A student. These are considered to be clashing cliques: the jock versus the nerd. However, I?ve been able to make friends in both groups, and my college experience has been richer because of it. Don?t get sucked into one group. Consciously make the effort to diversify your friends, and you?ll be glad you did.