The Evergreen State College Top Questions

Both parents and students should expect the unexpected, and most importantly save money! College debt is terrible, save save save!

Visit on a non visit day and talk to regular student and not just the selected ones by the university.

Ask yourself why you want to go to college, it should be only to continue and progress in the fight for knowlege, love and wisdom. Pick a place that is sustainable and can teach you how to survive in this crazy world. Follow your heart and study your passions, never give up your dreams. Pick a place with internship, study abroad and individual study options, all are genuanlly important to a good college experience. Don't rush things or break the bank, live well and know your financial limits. You can not work and study full time at the same time, it is an injustice to your learning and pointless of your time. Visit the college and talk to students with similer intereasts, walk the campus and see the town. Does it feel like home? The Evergreen State College is my home, Go Geo-Ducks!

My advice is to the students. Don't listen to "them". It's not about prestige. It's not about the weather, it's not about the name, it's not about making the most money. It's not about going to a "good school" and getting a degree so you can infiltrate the ever-growing job market. It's about loving what you do. If your passion is becoming a doctor and that means you would absolutely love to go to Harvard Medical School, then do it. If your passion is Botany and that means you go to Evergreen State College to study the plants of the Pacific Northwest, and then decide once you're there that studying basket weaving is really what you're in love with, but then you realize that you just want to write poetry all day every day, then that's what you do. And that's what you love. And know that it's probably going to change at least 15 times during your life, but hey. At least you're smiling and happy. Feel those tugs on your heartstrings and follow wherever they're a-pullin'.