University of Hawaii Maui College Top Questions

This will be my first year attend college. I would like to get the experience I need to run my super pet store. I will learn how to keep my books in order. I will learn everything i need to know. Im not letting anything get in my way. Im going to do whatever i have to do. Its what makes me happy. Having my own pet store will be a dream come true. At this time im a medical biller and not very happy. I sit on my tail for 8 hr a day and thats just not me. I have a reptile rescue right now and this is what I love doing. Taken care of animals. Thats me

Assurance. At thirty years old, I've been a bad student before but mostly because I wasn't doing what I loved. I've found my passion and my spot on the Dean's List proves it. School comes easily and for once I LOVE IT! The best part of my college experience was the reassurance that someday I will share my passion with the world.

I live at home while attending Maui Community College. As soon as I graduated high school, I continued my education at MCC. I've paid for college out of my own pockets, ever since I've been a student. I attended college full-time and worked full time most of my college career. The main reason why I wanted to stay home and attend college is so I could work and pay my way through it. I've learned how to take care of my responsibilities while attending college at home. I’ve become independent while staying on the island. I've also been able to provide for my family at the same time. My family and I are really close. Having a college on Maui, has allowed me to work so I can help my family. I’ve been able to get an education while working. My college experience is valuable to me because I was able to pay my way through it myself and take care of my families needs. If I had gone to any other college, I wouldn't be able to survive with the tuition and my family would be lost as well.

I have been able to broaden my employment opportunities with my college experience. It is teaching me to become more self-sufficient and more confident with my life decisions. Doing college later in life makes me realize the importance of a higher education. I now apply my new knowledge and experience with the work I do, as an educational assistant for children in grades six to eighth. It is fulfilling to be able to help younger students to learn their academics. School exercises my mind and is what I value most. My recent semester in a Hawaiian studies class was one of the best experiences in collge to date. I surprised myself by writing a report that impressed my professor so much, he suggested to print it in a newspaper. It's so exciting to know that I have a potential worth public exposure. In school, I am able to meet new people and learn new ways to study or understand a subject with a different point of view. Upon completing a Bachelor's degree in Business, I will then be well equipped with the necessary skills and discipline to run my own business and operate a non-profit organization.

I am a student over 40 with 3 children. I will be attending college with my oldest son. I am determined to do well for myself and to be a role model and mentor for my children. I want to show them that you can change your life for the better at any age.

I would tell myself that college is going to be a great growing up experience. It takes time to mature and through being on your own and applying your skills to reality, maturity is inevitable. Although you may think your friends are the most important aspect of your life in high school, in college everything changes. You will meet new friends who you will grow to respect and admire. Life is about making choices, especially as a young adult. You must learn to be yourself and know yourself in order to become a well rounded adult. Learn to love and respect yourself first, then love and respect will come from others.

The advice I would give my high school self, is to not join the Air Force to try and escape my problems. Leaving problems unsolved is always going to come back and bite you. So leaving here with so many issues unresolved will not do you any good. Stay here, get yourself into shape , mentally, physically, and emotionally. Going to college at Maui Community College is rather enjoyable and overall a rather relaxing environment to learn. Meeting new people is wonderful, as well as being able to sit anywhere on campus and being able to find a quiet place for your own. Just hang in there, you are almost done with high school and will soon have more freedoms as you go into college.

first, do not take too many classes! no want over load again lol. look at schools with an open mind, not just what i think i want to do. talk with my h.s. counselor a LOT!

I would advise myself to prepare for the future. Preferrably, start from my Jr . year but Sr. year is good. Get excellent grades-a must, preferrably honor rolls. Volunteer several organizations, preferrably four to five, or more-if time allows and if my grades is strong. My volunteer services would consist of areas in health field/humanitarian. Perhaps, hospitals, clinics, care homes, private care homes, habitat for humanity, animal shelter, schools, the homeless shelters, food bank, salvation army, churches and/or any non-profit organizations. I would also work part-time for some kind of income and give me some job experience. Ofcourse seek my counselors advise to plan/prepare for college life-apply for scholarships/grants. Because knowledge is power. I would learn sign language, foreign language, and take classes that'll benefit me, likewise benefit in whatever I'm doing throughout my life-therefore benefitting humanity.

As I grew up in a household of only a single mother and two younger brothers I have struggled all through my senior year of high school. Therefore, the advice I would give to myself would be to strive for the best now, in high school, because it is the base of your college career. In addition, I would tell myself to go beyond my expectations on what my future goals are and do the best that I can do. Knowingly that I am now in college and exciding my expectations by being the president of a student run catering club and being in competitions that I could only dream about are in is just the beginning of my college career. Indeed, I believe that if I did tell myself that I would be helping others as well as myself. Lastly, being raised by my mother has taught me to help others and they will help you. And that?s an advice I would give to anyone besides myself in high school.

Pick a professional degree, stay focused, never give up, persevere, and you will reap the rewards for the rest of your life!

If I where a senior in high school again I would have started college then right out of high school than by now I probably be working in my new career by now and not struggling like I am now. But no matter what I will not give up, I really want to get through all of my struggles because I want to succeed and be a role model for my Daughter.

Everything matters. Try your best. Ask for help when you need it. That's what your teachers are there for. If you don't get the help you need, go to someone else and ask again. Take as much hard classes as you can handle (especially math and science). "As much as you can handle" is an important part of that advice, so you absorb it, but especially the "math and science" part. If you take it in high school, it's only going to make it easier in college, or, you may not have to take it again at all. If you cruise too much now, you're going to be paying for it later, with interest (that means extra added cost, as in suffering and hardship). Pay up front, meaning work hard now, and pay less in the long run, meaning life will be easier for you, you'll be able to enjoy life more. You're only a high schooler for a short time, you are an adult for longer, so if you have to suffer a short time, while you're in high school, that's better than suffering a long time, as an adult.

Benjamin, Don't give up! Stay focused and on task. There is so much time for fun and activities that you do not have to focus so much on having the "time of your life" right now. Be yourself and remember who you are and where you come from. Help others, focus on your goals and see them through. Sieze the day!!!

Even though everyone is pressuring you to go to a school out of state, or a "good school", you must realize that it's very expensive. If you want to go to an out of state school, find one that is relatively inexpensive if you want a degree there, or just see what life is like on the mainland. However, I think you'll be fine at a school in state. The best thing you could do is build your base with general classes at a community college (since it's much cheaper than at a university) and then transfer to a university once you can't take anything else at the community college. You have to realize that an education is expensive, but only worth it if you put in the effort. I recommend finding some type of motivation that will pull you through each day, you don't want to find yourself questioning what you're doing halfway through a semester. That's dangerous for your grades. If you don't know why you're doing what you're doing, then step back and think before you move forward. Life's not easy, but it can be fun.

I would tell myself to take my time and think about what I want to study in school. Remind myself that my education is not free, it cost money and it take time. I would also remind myself to stay focused and to work hard to obtain my goals in life, no one will acheive them for me.

Advice for parents, Make sure not to push a College or University on your child, just because its a well known name and its the school you went to, doesnt mean it will be right for your child. It is their choice and they should know what they want or have an idea of what kind of school they are intrested in. Students, make sure to research a lot of schools, and to know how you work, and what environment you will work best in. For me, what I did was make a list of all the things I wanted in my school such as, my major, lots of activites, small classrooms, a good student center, diversity, cost, and much more. It really helped me to narrow my choices, and to choose the best school for me. And once you made your decision, the best advice I could give to a first time student, is to put school first, its not worth settling in, then having to start over.

Be prepared and don't wait till the last minute. College is a great experience and you want to make sure your in the right enviornment to learn and feel good. You can always change your mind but it is good to have an idea of what and where you want to be. Education is knowledge and knowledge is power. Do what you feel is right and don't let anyone pressure you to make a choice you don't want. Go with it and be filled with knoweldge and new experiences.

The best way to find the the right college is to try a comminty collage first. To try out some classes and then go out to find the one you thing is best for you. Other then that just try out other thing to find what you think you can do. Or find things you like. That about it for that.

I would say going on a tour at the school you are planning on going helps, and just by talking to the people up front in the admission office, looking at the different classes that they offer. Never hurts to try the school just to see how you like the environment of the classes and the teachers.