The College experience offers a simulated environment that allows you to test competencies, ideas, abilities, and aptitudes compared to others. As a byproduct, it also builds individual confidence.

Everybody is unique, and at some point we all have doubts about ourselves. This is a natural byproduct of maturing and feeling vulnerable as challenges hit us every day. College is a place to go and build potential. Colleges come in all shapes and sizes. They offer a huge array of programs, learning environments and formats. Everyone can benefit from a college experience because college offers exposure to people, content, events and perceptions that could stimulate your potential. Believing in yourself is the most important step in anything you do.

Attending College is about learning, gaining insight, accumulating new knowledge, meeting people and allocating time to study and comprehend the subjects we take. It is also about applying efforts to demonstrate the mastery of workload, balancing multiple priorities and producing evidence of learning to be graded. It can give you a firm foundation of training, exploration, experimentation and a means to test yourself. If completed, it also can give you a credential to open doors and leverage the credential earned. It is a parallel of what employers expect in the workplace.

We take incremental steps toward earning a credential as we complete our course work. Grades are a means to validate how hard the learner has worked, as well as the level of comprehension they have achieved which is tested or examined by a third party process. Grades are not perfect measures either. They approximate performance and achievement. Yes, we are all different. You don't have to be the smartest or the tallest or the fastest to achieve greater results when work is applied when motivated. You must learn to leverage their talent or assets. You can do it too. That is why you need to focus on your potential talent, not just what you have done up to this point.