Ask Your Freshman Self.

Planet College presents virtually endless possibilites for growth, social, intellecutal, emotional and even physical. Most of these occurr gradually in small increments. The end of the term or school year with the arrival of finals and grades demonstrates your growth in the academic department. Other areas are not so clearly defined. If you look back the changes in you and your life have happened steadily but without much fanfare.

So here's a method which will no doubt clearly show you how you have grown. Interview your freshman self.  That person who arrived on campus during welcome week or move-in day or even at Summer Bridge has a lot to offer you about the changes you have personally experienced on Planet College. Take a few minutes and remember that freshman self. Ask him what he expects from this experience. Ask him what he hopes to accomplish. Carefully consider his reply. Have you experienced what he anticipated. What advice would you give your freshman self? What can you tell him now that you did not know then.  Your reply, that is your advice to your freshman self is essentially what you have learned, about you, school and the world. It is very, very valuable. It is based in what you have lived. And worldwide, on or off campus, there is no teacher like experience.