Pikes Peak Community College Top Questions

What should every freshman at Pikes Peak Community College know before they start?

Micah

I would listen to my parents more. I would work harder to excel in academics and also in relationships, giving my all. I would learn from the best in a stronger way.

Micah

Listen to your parents. Help those in need. Listen to the cries of friends and acquaintances, and try to reach out to them. See teachers as people who have real needs, themselves, and try to come around them. Excel in knowledge by listening to the news and reading the newspapers. Be active in sports, staying fit and learning lifelong habits that will keep my body running for a long time. Become a learner so that I will attack problems in the future, taking steps to go through the clouds and come out on top. Learn patience with those who hurt me and seek my wrong. Roll over problems and see the good in people and circumstances. Be a winner, in thought, in action, in perseverance.

Micah

Micah, you should spend more time shadowing professionals so that you would make more contacts in your possible fields of study. It would give you more of an idea of what to go into and a better field of the scope of opportunities. Start working on scholarship applications sooner and work more diligently on them. Really buckle in to studies so that you will be as ready for college as possible academically. Learn how to cook, to budget, and to repair the car, as well about car insurance. Learn about what your medical insurance will be like next year. Ask your parents and other adults for advice as often as possible, as they have a lot to impart. Continue loving people, even though you're very busy and in the midst of many changes. Put God first, and everything will come into place. Keep your chin up when things don't go the way you think they should. Learn to roll over problems, knowing that there will be a bright and shining future for you, and that you will do well in all you do. Be thankful in all things.

Jason

College is nothing like high school at all. Any idiot can graduate high school without even trying. You have to do all the homework and all the reading every single time in college. Getting behind is almost certain doom, do any homework or reading the day it is assigned. Trying to work ahead or play catch up both dont sync with the way your mind works. doing all homework or reading the day it is assigned is the best policy. If nothing is assigned the lecture will make alot more sense if you read the material before the teacher goes over it. It dosnt matter what other people do, or how well you usually learn from just lecture. Take your own notes all class every class, dont be afriad to say something to the teacher or ask a question. The most important thing is to do all the homework and reading. If theres not enough homework assigned do some of the homework from the book on your own. Use any online resources available. Youll be lucky to get all B's if you do do all this. Its that much harder than high school.