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Wilson College allowed me to find out who I am. Small classes do not allow you to hide. Everyone is known by name. I am a stronger, more confident woman because I attended Wilson College. I strongly support women's colleges as great places to get a quality education and grow as a person.

For a long time I have tried to pursue a career that is not me. I have received an associate of applied science in graphic arts. While I am a fairly good graphic artist, I am not ready to give up on my dream. I have learned a lot about computers, communicating, and about how hard it can be to break into the art field without a bachelors. I a hoping that once I have completed my education I can not only provide for myself but that I can use my career as a platform to spread awareness on a disability that I myself suffer from, Spastic Torticollis. This is a very disabIing condition of which few are aware. I feel that with perseverance I can live my dream and find a cure for this condition.

The college experience has been somthing very new and brighter it has enabled me to acknowledge school in a whole different way it inspires me to want and have to will to want somthing different for me and my daughter so i look forward in attending a university spring 2011.

I have learned so much already and I haven't even completed a full semester of college. The professsors are extremely helpful and knowledgable about the curriculum they teach. I've learned so many things about how i can improve the welfare of my own dogs and changes I can make to get them healthier. I feel like I'm gaining the ability to actually make a difference with animals. I can't wait til next semester when we actually get to do hands on learning. I will be so much more comfortable handling animals and treating them after that.

Even though i am a freshman here at Wilson College this school has made me a confident , and intelligent woman. Not only in my work but in my self asteem. This school has given me the strenght as a woman to never doubt any of my skills,and to strive to be the best i can be. I was also able to realize that getting help and admitting to your weakness is a good thing because there are people who will be willing to sit down and help you one on one with understanding something that was hard to comperhend in a large group such as lecture. It has been valuable to attend this school because being here i am out of my comfort zone which is in Connecticut. I never seen towns such as this one and i am learning more about why they adore animals and what makes this a great community to b e involved in. Wilson does community like actuvities and help others be aware of events such as breast cancer awarness month,celebrsting art, and allowing others in their community to work together to be more like a family creating more comfort to be around.

Wilson College was truly a great college to attend. I really felt like I got more than just an education from Wilson. The teachers were so passionate about what they were teaching. They made me excited to learn about things that otherwise I believe I would not be so interesed in. I found out how much I loved Biology and decided to get a minor in it along with my degree in Veterinary Technology. After I graduated, I went through several jobs and I really liked what I was doing, but just felt like something wasn't quite right for me. I talked to one of my old anatomy teachers expressing that I felt guilty for wanting to try something else and he said to me, "No education is ever wasted." From those words something just clicked and I decided to go back to school and add some more value to my mind. I'm studying Diagnostic Medical Sonography now at Univeristy of Maryland Training Centers and plan to graduate with a certificate in August of 2011. I plan to use this skill with animals and who knows, maybe go back to school for something else one day!

I've gained a degree of confidence and an increased respect, acceptance and appreciation of others, and I've fallen in love with a multitude of people, places and ideologies. I have grown in leaps and bounds as a human, being both socially and personally, in addtion the world seems larger to me, but at the same time less freightening than it was before. Education is a valuable resource as it empowers the spirit as well as the mind, and college is a place where you are never alone, you are surounded by idividuals of like mind in pesuit of individual educational goals. It is a place to meet new people, some who will be with you for the rest of your life and others who will share a portion of themselves with you in passing. I am 40 years old and it matters not how long it took me to get hear, but that I am hear and so very thankful for the oportunity. College life may not be for everyone but I encourage everyone to give it a try, becuase you never know who you may become as a result.

If I could get the chance and go back and give myself advice for college, I would have three peices of advice that I would tell myself. The first thing would be that when your in high school develop good study habits don't try to cram it into one night. When your at college the professors go over a ton of material, and cramming for a test in one night isn't the best way to go. The second thing is that if you have a roommate problem, try aqnd fix it before it gets worse. sitting down and talking to each other will help work out some problems that might be bothering you. The third peice of advice that i would tell myself is that the first couple weeks can be very difficult, but if you do not give up, it will get better, I promise.

I would tell myself to relax a little more and stop stressing about finding friends. Finding friends came easy and the transition was not that bad. I would also tell myself to research more on my field of study, just so i knew more about what we were talking about in class.

I would tell myself not to be nervous about going to college because it's a really great experience and it really isn't that scary. I would also tell myself to try a little bit harder in some of my first semester classes because I really could have done better and now I'm kicking myself for that. I would make sure that I knew that I would meet some awesome people at my little all girls college and that I wouldn't want to go anywhere else even if it was completly free! The best thing about starting college, is it is a step toward a better future and I would tell myself that the college I picked was a college that would do everything they could to make sure that I would achieve my goals and become who I wanted to be and do I what I wanted to do.

I would tell myself to look for scholarships and do not give up so easily on your dreams, for there were times in the past I lost faith in my abilities and my dreams. I would tell myself to set up an account with several scholarship programs to get the money I need to pay off the rest of my tuition so I wouldn't have to rely on getting loans. That it is also important to set aside my social life a little bit more for some goals need to be done with 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} focus and no distractions, even if it means saying no a lot to your friends if they envite you to go out with them or do stuff with them. I would tell myself it is ok to have friends to open up and have fun, but to make sure it doesn't infer with your dreams, your goals, the main reason you are there at Wilson College, to get a degree and become what you want to become.

If I could go back and talk to myself as a high school senior I would tell myself to get my act together a lot more than I already had at the time. Just by being on the honor roll and getting passing grades doesn't mean that you're going to be fully prepared for what the college classes are going to ask of you. I would tell myself to take more time on the papers that I wrote and double check all of the grammar and spelling as well as make sure I answered all of the questions for the assignment. In college you don't get A's for writing the kind of papers that you did in high school, instead you get C's and sometimes B's. The professors are much more strict and specific when grading assignments. Also, I would definitely tell myself to start coming up with different studying methods and to figure out which ones work the best for me. Because in college some of your classes 98{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of your grade is primarily based on exam grades.

Alyse, Remember your junior year of high school when everyone dreaded the JUNIOR RESEARCH PROJECT, and your english teacher had your class sit down in the library for a week with two packs of note cards and take at least one hundred note cards worth of very specific notes with separate note cards for the sources? Go invest in more note cards and use that method for every paper you write in college. Because if you recall, that dreaded research projec was not difficult at all. Also, you finish your work before you even think of having a social life. Remember what you did as a high school freshman, work for an hour, then play online for five minutes, then back to work. You will make friends in class and during orientation, so do not worry that you will not have a social life, but since you depend on that scholarship (which you will lose if you do not keep your head in the game), make sure your priorities are academic. Go to the learning resource center, and talk to your professors. They want you to succeed, Wilson College wants you on campus. Go kick butt. Love, Alyse.

Heather, you will strugle in college at first and drop out don't give up you time will come. It will not happen in the way youchoose but it will happen. You will have a son then 10 years later get married to the man of your dreams. Then you will be ready. I know you will strugle with depression and it will be hard. Trust me when your ready to go back you will, and you will show everybody how badly you really want to succeed. you deserve what has been long over due. You will have many hats to wear. The mother hat the Full time worker hat the student hat the wife hat, you may feel at times that this is going to take forever. Remember when mom was told that you would never do better than C or D work, well, girl your first semester at Wilson you will get a 3.65 GPA then your second semester you get a 4.0 GPA. The rest I can not tell you because I myself do not know yet I just know there are great things comming your way

Don't bring as much stuff as they tell you to bring. You will not use 90{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of it, and it will just clutter your dorm, making you more stressed out than you have to be. Join in on activities!! Make friends!! This is a very social campus, so make sure you take advantage of it, and for heaven's sake... stop procrastinating! It will NOT help you in college!

If I could go back in time to my senior year of high school I would tell myself to pursue higher education instead of entering the workforce. Explaining how a job isn't always as easy to find as we would like to assume, I would emphasize how important knowledge is in every aspect of life. If anything that knowledge you can glean from college can take you anywhere. And what better time is sooner rather than later.