Santa Rosa Junior College Top Questions

Start college right after high school so you can get your degrees sooner and start your career. College is not hard, its fun and interesting. Its a great way to educate yourself; improve job skills; and make new friends. Tour the campus and meet with a counselor. Check out all their options. Find a job on campus and seek financial aide if needed. Join a campus organization and get involved. Study hard and seek tutoring if needed. Help encourage fellow students and share positive experiences regarding college life. Get your math classes done first! Take a double major (Anthropology and Art/History), but also take additional classes for fun and personal enrichment. Never stop learning throughout your life. Get to know your teachers and ask questions if not sure of something. When you have time (between classes; studies; and work), volunteer for an organization that is connected to your major for additional experience. Attend lectures and plays on campus. Take the opportunity to be a part of one of their "study abroad" programs for a summer in a different country. Be positive and strive for a great GPA. Most of all, make the most of your opportunites and enjoy it!

I would tell myself that College is not as hard or different from High school. You can do it and you will enjoy it. I would also tell myself to not change your mind on the Army because the Army has changed my life for the best. It has made me more determind and focused in the classroom than ever before.

The best advice I could give myself is to make the high marks in classes and get better grades. The junior college I am at right now is one of the best in the nation, but knowing what I do now about college and college life, I would most definately prefer to go to a four year university. However, I am hopefully transfering next fall semester to a university. I am very excited for the trasition, but I do wish I could have spent my first two year at the university as well. Regardless, if I could give advice to myself or another in high school, it would certainly be get the best grades you can while maintaining an active social life and having fun, but gradez should come first.

Be completely sure what classes you want to take, do your research on the faculty members, and ask fellow students what their experiences were like. College is what you make of it, so go to every class, even if you can do excellent without attending everyday. You never know when an interesting piece of information will pass you by, and though you could survive without it, having it is just that much better!

Keep moving forward with a goal in mind. Don't close your mind off to any path your future might hold and be open to and seek change. College is one of the best opportunities to recollect and reconsider your identity, explore all of your options and find what it is you truly want to be, both in your career choice and as an independent person. Don't just get the education to get the job to get the money; get the education to get the confidence to direct yourself to whatever it is you can truly feel proud and happy doing, apply yourself to that goal, don't be afraid to change it, and after that, the education, the job, and the money will come. College is a place to explore your freedoms as a human being, unbound by burdening pressures and negativity, but keeping you on Earth, connected to what matters here. College life is tough, and it requires a lot of hard work, but the beauty in its opportunities can make optimists out of anyone truly seeking to become one. Just keep moving forward and explore life through the doorway that is higher education.

"do better at mathematics. it will flow better when you begin college." Thats about it or else i wouldn't feel a challange when i reach college level.

I would love to go back in time to talk to myself and many of my other classmates, not only to tell them of times to come but to ask them, and myself to look at ourselves clearly. Times change much too fast for us not to know ourselves and consider our own minds before leaving to a place we are not familiar with. I would have told myself to let the chips fall where they may, instead of constantly stressing to stop them from falling at all, and maybe then enjoyed more and stressed less. But this is one fact that we all must learn from experience, so perhaps I would not go back at all.

I would tell myself that I don't have to know exctly what I want to do with my life right away. It may seem stressful, but essentially I know what is right for me and when I are ready to make a committment to a specific school or major. Additionally I would let myself know that I shouldn't solely hold myself up to the standards others set for me, for that leads to much unneeded worrying and stress. Lastly I would tell myself to relax because I do not want to make any hasty decisions I might regret, and furthermore, this is the time in my life when I should be enjoying myself before I enter the "adulthood" of college life.

Classes can be good but really check out teachers much better than you have in the past. You'll go on the study abroad program to London, lots of fun, so don't miss out on it. Don't worry that you don't know what you want to major in, or that you'll change your mind probably ten times, just go with what feels right for you until you can figure it out for yourself. Some people will say that you really need to get on the ball with picking a direction. You'll stress and worry for a bit until you realize that you really just don't know what you need or want from life, and whoever happens to be saying that to you at the moment can't change that. Others will tell you to take your time and again you'll feel frustrated because you just want to have that direction that you know you'll love and can live with for the rest of your life and be happy. Also, have more fun. You've always been serious about your work it's alright to let loose.

I would definitely tell myself to be ready to go to school when I feel ready to do so; and not just because everyone else is going. I would also tell myself that it is very important to keep my grade point average high and don't waste time in deciding what I would to be; and in doing so, to focus every attention on school to earn those high grades. Most important, I would tell myself to stay away from debt because debt is a stumbling block to a better future.