Do you KnowHow2Go?

This is post 42. That’s significant because that’s all I get. 42 posts to talk college knowledge. Now really, I could go on about college forever and ever because you really can’t wrap college in words that fit in only 100 posts. And about actually getting to college, that’s a-whole-nother story, some of which I’ve tried to tackle in these blogs.

It’s a good thing though that the experts behind KnowHow2Go took the time to boil all that is trying to actually get to college into 4 simple steps. Getting to college is a process and not an event. It’s not something you just do in one day. It’s something that you can achieve after taking a lot of little steps toward a goal. The KnowHow2Go steps outline that process:

1) Be a Pain – tell people that you want to go to college, and ask them for help

2) Push Yourself – Challenge yourself. Take the tough classes -  don’t breeze by with the classes that don’t challenge you – they will not prepare you for college like harder classes will.

Aim for this: Take at least 4 of every class, and 5 if possible. Take 4 English, 4 Science, 4 Math, 4 Social Studies and 4 Foreign Language. Believe me, it’s worth it.

3) Find the Right Fit – There are tons of colleges for a reason: because there are tons of people with tons of different interests and tons of different things to be trained on. So there are tons of different colleges that meet all those different needs. Find out what you want to do, what you are interested in, what you like and dislike, and start from there in your college search. Try websites like collegeboard.com to do college searches. Don’t give up on getting a degree because the school closest to your house doesn’t suit you. There’s a school out there that will suit you, you just have to find it!

4) Get your Hands on some cash – Don’t think that your family’s money situation will determine whether you go to college. There is money out there to help you pay for college – whether it’s scholarships, grants, loans, or cold hard cash you earned and saved yourself, there are ways to pay for college. Remember, it’s an investment in yourself.

And if nothing else, I hope to stress that:

-Education costs – whether it costs time, effort, money, and/or a combination of it all. How much are you willing to pay?
-Education doesn’t just happen – it’s something you do, something you plan for, something you prepare for – and it’s NEVER TOO EARLY!!

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