Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts-Pittsburgh Top Questions

If I could go back in time and talk to myself senior year I would tell him to push himself more realize college is your future. My senior year was a very short one, I had three classes and was out of school at about 11am. I was in the OWE program where you would leave school early to go to work. I had all the credits I needed to graduate so I took this program because it was easy. I didnt take the challenging classes like I should have. I would tell myself to take a full schedule and prepare for college. Really thing about my career and care more about learning. I have that care now but I wish I had it six years ago, senior year. I think I would be in a better position today with a degree and a career I love if I had done so.

Work less, study more and take advantage of what you have. I worked from the age of 12 all the way to graduation. I found little time for extracurricular and alternative activities that could have helped with my initial success in college nearly 20 years ago. Now I am going back to do what I love, cook. I wish I would have had this focus at 18 but we deal with the situations that life places us in. Of course now I am more focused, ambitious and driven more than ever. I also learned that when you parents offer to pay for your schools tuition as long as you live under their roof...take them up on the offer. I am now going to be battling a student loan debt of nearly $30K. I look back and realize how jaded my high school and early twenties actually was. The road could have been alot easier but I am happy with the detour I took and looking forward to wherever it leads me next.