The Evergreen State College Top Questions

Be true to yourself. College can be a weird and frightening place if you adjust your personality in order to fit in. You will change and grow beautifully if you let go and unleash your full potential. Take classes that you WANT to take, not classes you feel you should take. Push yourself outside your comfort zone, you will learn much more. Take risks and realize that you have unlimited potential to change the world. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise, not even a professor.

Nothing - I'm satisfied with both my high school, or lack thereof, and college careers thus far.

Go to school before you turn 32!

It would be too late to correct any damage by the time I was a senior. I'd just tell myself that my future is bright.

I would say to remember that being serious about your work doesn't end when you show up here. My first quarters here seemed rather easy, but my sophomore year showed me wrong. Studies got a lot more difficult out of no where and my living situation was dreadful during my sophomore year. Lets just say my first year blinded me to what college can really be like when everything ISN'T going perfectly.

To go to a 2-year college first and take the time to try new things. These are the years where we get to see what fits and what doesn't so leaving room to wiggle is important. Then, when I would enter a four year college I would be more likely to have focus and direction and more appreciation for the opportunities available.

I would have told my highschool self to not stress about picking a major, knowing what you want to do, cost of school, distance from home. You do not need to have a major, just go to school for the experance, learning and networking. Take classes you think I may not always enjoy, because you might be surprised. Distance from home will not matter. If you live 8 hours or 2 you will very rarely have the time to go home to what is the point. (Although living 2,000 is a bit more difficult.) And get out there! Join clubs, do volunteer projects, go on the little shcool trips, art walks, ect. They are kinda cheesey but always fun. Make friends that know how to have fun, there is no need for drinking or smoking it is very unattractive. If you must get a job to help pay for school. Get one on campus that way school is still your life and you work understands that and is flexable.

I have found my passion. I love learning, and I love helping people. I was the kid with a thousand questions. "Why are plants green?" "What does 'homogenized' mean" "Why do antibiotics make us better?"... I knew that the academic world was my element of comfort. I enjoy the challenge and the reward of asking good questions and genuinely learning. I pushed myself to succeed in high school, but I wish I could have worked more AP classes into my schedule (They only offered English and Calculus). If I could go back, I'd have taken calculus as well. Overall, the transition to college was smooth and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

There's too much involved for me to answer this in a way that would be helpful for this survey.

Make sure that you are able to make a secopndary family of people who love and support you. If you don't find a community of people to surround yourself with you can easily get lost and feel lonely.