2007-02-03 15:27:45 · 10 answers · asked by Elysia 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I would like to take some of this advice and put it in a handout for my students. I will keep your names out of it. Thank you!
2007-02-03 19:28:11 · update #1
As a 44 year old mom of two who is just finishing my bachelor's degree, here are some things I can offer as advice. I got my associates degree right after high school and then waited until I was 40 to return for my bachelors degree.
1) Set deadlines for yourself on how to get things done. There will not be a parent pushing you to do so.
2) While school is fun, it's easy to get distracted and not focus on your studies.
3) Very important!! Do research on your career opportunities. Often schools paint a best picture scenario about the salaries you can get, but graduates often come out with unrealistic expectations about the money you can earn.
4) A lot of textbooks are written by people who have only great theories and have talked to experts in their field, but often the authors never have worked in the real world. So, it's good to get the perspective of people out there who have done the work to see what is real and not real.
2007-02-04 02:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Searcher 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, well a lot of what I would say really falls under the catagory of "what do I wish I had paid attention to when they told me about it in college."
But now that I'm out in the real world, I wish someone had flat told me this:
"Everyone says that college is preparing you for the rest of your life, and that it's the best time of your life. Both of this is B.S. Real life, i.e. a life with bills and obligations and a job and a home and travel, is nothing like skipping down to the caff for some food before hitting a one hour evening class, after which you crash on your friend's bed and watch cartoons till 3 am. That being said, even with the bills and obligations and a job and a home and travel, Real Life is so much better than all of that."
2007-02-03 23:34:09 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth G 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"All work and no play makes Jane a dull girl". I spent too much of my time studying and not exploring the benefits of the college click. Of course I already had one child before I started college and was blessed with the other as a graduation present; but I still think I didn't give myself enough time to let my hair down and thats because I knew that studying and doing my best was my only option; noit horsing around like Belushi in Animal House.
2007-02-04 00:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by a_chickaboom02 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am still in college, but I regret that I was not aware of the website ratemyprofessor.com, because I have ended up with some wacko professors! I have recently started checking there before registering for a class and my stress level has decreased! A crazy professor that does not teach can make your life a living nightmare!
Also rememer this tip! Good grades are important and you must fight for your GPA...BUT what do they call a doctor that got all Cs in medical school?
DOCTOR!
Good luck!
2007-02-03 23:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by terpinturtle 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In undergraduate school--that it's nearly impossible to get into journalism unless you know somebody or you're willing to starve in Podunk, Nowhere for years.
In graduate school--I wish they would have told me just how bad the public inner city schools were and have given me better tools in discipline and diagnosing and working with learning disorders.
In other words, reality!
and, like sacanda, I wish I'd gone away to school, too, but I was afraid myself.
2007-02-03 23:37:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are a few things I would have liked to know more about. Would have helped my life sooner.
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -- Albert Einstein
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras
2007-02-04 00:01:37 · answer #6 · answered by wegottadobetter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to class and listen. It sounds simple, but half the success of college is just showing up.
Many people blow off class, or they go and don't pay attention.
2007-02-03 23:57:24 · answer #7 · answered by dwg1998red 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish somenone could have gotten through to me that I should have stayed there until they dragged me out kicking and screaming. After college its work forever and ever and ever.
College was learning, and nudity and brief nudity and polonged nudity and drinking for me. If I had it to do over....I'd drink more and bag more babes and then become a professor and drink more and bag more babes for grades.
2007-02-03 23:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"this is the most important time in your life" as a college dropout someone should have told me that
2007-02-03 23:30:40 · answer #9 · answered by Jacob Da omniscient 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It isn't as scary as I thought...
I was afraid to "go away" to college...
and I should have!!
2007-02-03 23:31:32 · answer #10 · answered by sacanda_trina 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋