Texas A & M University-Commerce Top Questions

Lauren clubbing,drinking, and overnight guests are all fun and games until someone gets hurt. You need to stop running around like you have no future. I know that your struggle is real and intense right now but after the hurricane comes a beautiful rainbow. The fact that you are a full time student and you work 45 hours a week is tough but you are going to get through it because when you get to college you're going to be exhausted from all these hours you've worked and fun you've had. Go ahead and party all you want but when you walk through those University doors time to store the heels away. Join as much as you can missy because tution ain't no joke. I believe in you. I know that even though you may not come out as the smart kid i know how intelligent you are. Use it to your advantages. Leave the boys and the alcohol and the clubs they will be there the night you graduate college along with an amazing career and a couple of dreams come true. I believe self-discipline is the key.

Study hard and get your degree as soon as possible. I am going back to school and pursuing my phd so I wish I would have achieved my degrees and stayed focused out of high school.

If I could go back to highschool and talk to myself , I would tell myself to slow down. I was rushing everything and spending a lot of time freaking out about school and grades that I didnt get a chance to enjoy highschool. I would have let myself know that I was more than ready for college. I would have been perfectly fine.

Dear Jamall, College is not what your father told you. The hardest part about college is waking up and figuring out what you want to eat for the day. Classes are challenging, but not difficult. The classes make you think in ways you never thought before. You will make new friends that will get on your nerves because you are the coolest one in the bunch, but you love them dearly. You will do a lot more studying, then we did in high school. You will be involved in so many things that you will forgot that you was at a college, so always keep a level head.

If I could go back in time and give myself adive about college life I would tell myself to learn to be responsible for myself. When you are in elementry and high school you have your parents, grandparents and teachers making sure you get your homework done, study for exams, make wise choices, get enough sleep and just generally keep you on track. But when you go off to college you are on your own. There are plenty of people, like your professors, willing to help you but you have to seek that help yourself. No one is staying on top of you making sure you do the things you need to do. You have to be responsible for youself. As a highschool student you need to practice being responsible in order to prepare for college. Once you have learned this you will be able to handle the difficulties of transitioning to college life.

Me going back in time and talking to myself as a high school senior I would tell myself that going to college is a really great thing to do because you have more education and just by have degrees that opens up a whole lot of doors when beginning to look for a good secured job. Having the college life is a really great way to see the real world on your own which means no more having to rely on the parents to get you up so you’re not late to your class, pushing you to do your homework, doing laundry, cooking food for yourself, washing dishes, etc. All this you will have complete control over. This college life just gives you a look of how it will be in the real world for a few years while you’re in college because during the school year you still go back to your real home to visit the family for a weekend or so and also when the holidays come around you go back home. This is a life changing thing to look forward to in your life.

I was almost six months pregnant with my first child when I graduated high school and decided to focus on family before returning to college. Recently my oldest daughter graduated high school and is now a freshman where I attend. She is a member of an honors program, has a job, and is a member of a faith based sorrority. Watching her take each of these new steps has made me very proud but it has also made me realize how much I missed out on by not attending college after high school. If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior knowing what I know now about college life and making the transition, I would tell myself to push beyond what seemed to be a major roadblock and that girls can still go to college and succeed after having a baby at such a young age. I would tell the high school senior me, about the financial struggle I was about to endure for so many years all because I thought I couldn't succeed and complete a degree and how possible it really was to graduate college even with a baby.

To take more AP or college credited classes

I would have told myself to perhaps try to change my schedule so I can fit more volunteer work in my schedule.

If I could go back in time, I would go beyond doing my best in school so I could make the grades to get a full scholarships. I would focus on the importace of life and friends. Since I can not go back in time, I'm Blessed to be able to attend Pulaski Tech college to better myself and my children lives. I am teaching my children how important it is to focus on school so you can be prepared for college and real life. Hopefully my children can look at my hard work and say "If mom can do this, and make good grades we can too"