school in two thousand and sixteen she is now in her first year at penn state university thank you for joining us today only hero so what do you think is the hardest thing for your transition from high school to college i would say that the time management was very hard to transition from the amount of work we had in high school and going to the amount of work we have in college and the amount of free time we have in balancing all the stuff you have to do within that amount of time and you just finish your first semester of college so how are the finals different from high school to college the finals were a lot more like they meant a lot more for your classes than they do for your in your high school classes but it was easier to study for them because there was a lot more time and you knew how to put in like the amount of effort you knew what you had to do and what were some of your best study strategies for studying for finals just i made a lot of note cards and i i really just like write rewrote my notes and just went through all my material throughout the whole semester and i went over it over and over again and till i understood it completely for the final and high school classes how do you think they compare to college classes they are a lot shorter and you only have them twice a week so that was very nice but the workload is a lot more and it's a of stress a lot of the important tiriel more than the unemployment material so you know what you have to study for so it's a lot easier to do the work and everything and how are teaching styles different with like very big classes in college because you go to a big school compared to high school well one of my classes had like six hundred people in it so it was harder to communicate with them but most of my classes were smaller so it was easier to talk to the professors but even when in my big class you can always go to office hours and talk to them so you could like understand the material and everything but other than that it was mostly the same and how did you know exactly what you wanted to study in college well my high school classes actually helped a lot with it because they showed me what i was interested in like my human anatomy and physiology class showed me that i really wanted to do something within the medical field  and once i got to college i found the major that was good for that even though i applied undecided and then i took the started taking the classes for that major so that helped me a lot that cost so do you think there are any benefits to applying undecided and then later deciding your major there is a lot of benefit because i didn't know what i wanted to do in high school but once i got to college it really like i had a lot more room to explore than if i would have applied under one specific major and so would you recommend if you don't really know what you want to do going in undecided and then choosing yeah i would recommend that's ok and friends from high school i know people are like concerned about not wanting to keep their friends from high school do you feel like keep in touch with friends from school well when i'm at school i like i text them and i like to talk to them a little bit but usually they don't visit me very much but when i come home i haint out with them and see them then so i'm i still see them yeah both yeah how do you manage your time best college it was hard for me because in high school i usually crammed for all of my tests like the day before which wasn't the best to prepare myself for college but now i just like i put a lot more effort into atolls whole business and if you ever need help with say like homework or studying and you don't know what to do who do you usually go to my advisor is very helpful whenever you find out who that is it helps a lot to go to them and talk to them about the classes you need and the grading in that class and how it's best to study for them and i also talk to my friends who are in the same class as me we studied together a lot so that's also very helpful ok what do you think the most important thing to focus on in high school is i would really focus on your time management because for me that was the hardest thing to transition from but other than that i think it was a pretty good like transition to college and when did you exactly know what school you wanted to go to did you always have like a top choice yeah i've always wanted to go to penn state mostly but i applied to other schools as a back up but when i got into penn state i knew that i wanted to go there it was just from when i was a kid i always wanted to and it did you ever have i mean did where there any like misconceptions you had about college that you found out weren't true whenever you got there not really just the fact that everyone said it was very challenging and you had to really study every single day but as long as you know how to manage your own time you should be fine of it like it wasn't as hard as 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the cancer prevention together we can website and get a free thirty day planner filled chips recipe stats for protecting your family go to prevent though and i'm here with my friend lee again as who is a software dance major at marymount manhattan college in new york for our show we wanted to discuss a focus on an arts major at a major university especially for students considering a career focused on the arts lee it was a two thousand and fifteen graduate from our very own peter sonship high school and we're very excited to have her back here today to talk with us so how did you make the decision to go to a school that was far away from home instead of staying local it was definitely a tough decision for me i was deciding between two colleges mary mary mount and point park a big breaker that i decided on was new york i wanted to be in the city and so i decided  is it different coming home from new york than what you hear about your friends coming home from maybe local or definitely it's hard for me to come home because it's a seven and a half hour drive nine and a half on a bus i usually  take so it's hard for me to get home because i believe we rehearse on the weekends so ok how often do you come home and why do you make the decision to come last year i came home more than i did this semester because i lived with seven people so i always had to come home because it was just very tough but this year now that i'm in an apartment i only came home for thanksgiving so you lived in both in the dorms and in an apartment yes what was the difference between the two and would you record my and one over the other old definitely an apartment because of my living situation it was definitely hard coming from pierce township bubble into new york i would definitely macro recommend  an apartment ok have you heard things from your friends like living on in a dorm versus living in an apartment and why did you decide to switch to an apartment from other colleges other colleges their dorm seemed a lot nicer i think because they didn't have seven people in their room but in new york apartments it's not like other colleges apartments where you live next to college students i live next to a ninety year old couple which there are so adorable but and then i also live next to a family of five ok so it's just it's very different but how did you why be when do you decide to come home ok my parents come up to new york more than i can ok is it easier for them to come up and visit you is it because of your non local or it's because i have rehearsals on the weekends so ok how did you decide to major in dance rather than focus on something else oh i've always loved and since i was three and i take it very seriously and it's something that i want to pursue for the rest of my life how did you prepare yourself to major in an arts focused in college from high  school i definitely built my perfectly a lot by studying in new york i studied there this summer going into my junior year and this summer going into my senior year of high school so that also helped my transition into new york a lot of my friends their transition was a lot difficult a lot more difficult because they did it and know the subway system and they did know the different areas and york but my transition was a lot easier because i didn't know all that would you recommend visiting the college campuses when you were in new york before did you toward the campus yes would you recommend doing that if people are going non local would you recommend them go to the actual colleges before definitely how did it help you i knew what i was going into and i knew the area that i was living in so i think that what kind of things did you do in high school that helped you prepare to focus on your major when you got to college i studied with the joffrey ballet up in new york and i danced three different studios around pittsburgh i just did everything that i wanted to do do you have any advice for high school students with balancing activities whether it's when you were in high school or how you transitioned into doing it when you were in college it's definitely hard to do anything differently very hard in college because your workload is double the amount like i have a thirty to one o'clock every day dance classes and then i go into my academic classes and then i like ha an hour to like go like babysit the family that i babysit or eat or do whatever and get homework done and then i have to go to more academic classes or go to rehearsals for dance for shows mentioned babysitting is that a part time job that you do while you're in school still yeah i nanny for three families up there oh my gosh how do you balance that with your school and with your dance well the family i like babysitting because the family works around your schedule also it's easier than a retail job or anything other like anything else would you recommend getting a job when you were in college do you think it's feasible i think that's based off year situation but for me yes because i like to have like i like to be on my own ok did it is it helping you when it comes to i know some people like organization or something they like having a job because it gives them structure does it help you when it comes to doing stuff like that or is it hard because of your focus on the arts major it's definitely hard finding time would you recommend it to others or you know that are doing arts yeah yeah it's definitely taught me more with like managing my time and stuff but i think it's just depends who you are and if you can take another it on others possibility how do you manage your time because you seem like you're doing a lot of stuff sleep i'm like a grandma when it comes to i have to have like so many hours of sleep or i go  crazy do you do anything specific that helps you get that i'm honestly because i know as a high school student i struggle with that so i can only imagine well yeah i go to bed at like ten because a lot of people like to talk to my other friends at other universities they definitely it's definitely different because they can stay up all night doing homework with like i'm dancing yeah for five hours straight every morning so it's hard for me to not get sleep and still trying to pursue dance would you recommend doing something differently like do you have any advice for high school students that are going to focus on an arts major just follow your dreams is about you that i'm happy for you thank you so much for talking coming and talking to me i'm very happy that we got to have you here we're going to be taking a little break and then we'll be back in actually less mccoskey will be talking with her older sister lauren let me koski another high school graduate of peters township and they'll be talking about her college experience i'm naomi judd love my dog but disasters like hurricanes and floods and tornadoes can only parents and other animals injured abandoned or lost american humane cared about and i'd be over thinking about what happened in iraq three months ago you're almost like a stranger when you come that everything is different you're kind of discombobulated people were asking me how it was but i got the sounds they couldn't relate to what i had been through so i just stopped talking about it it made a tremendous difference in my life when i chose to get help in hindsight it probably saved my life save my marriage i personally believe that i'm also a better soldier sometimes when you come home it can seem negative distressing concern you can all be out soon will be got through you're not going to be the same person afterwards that you were before you deployed and don't try to be accept who you are now figure out how to move forward and make that pos together we can change the news find out how it's safe kids dot org  about transferring from high school to college just like the others you said it's definitely time management it's just so much at once so high school you don't have as much scored as you do in college it's really as but change i'm engineering so we just have all these math and science based classes in when you're memorizing material you can say ok i can put the sound i can go to bed now or i can i can look at this in the morning but with math it's more like go over it over and over and over again and  getting it down so it's a lot more work than high school was because it's a lot of college hours and then just your classes are long and they're all week some people fridays off which makes it easier but did  any high school classes to help yourself and college with the classes that you would be taking there i did after got into the advanced math classes in high school or middle school so i was a little bit behind actually when i got there so a lot of people are able to take calculus before they get there and they're one whole class ahead for engineering we have six classes we have to finish before the end of the first two years and one of them is calculus so calc one calc two differential equations things like that and that does put you almost a whole semester ahead as far as your from being away from mom dad the dog everybody it was one of the hardest things but you just moved into a part and how has that helped you with your studies so a dorm is very much kasha photogram claustrophobic as it is and having my bed next to where i eat as well as where and where i study and then my friend in my room with me and i just couldn't sleep i couldn't study the library was definitely one of the best resources i have all i was in the dorms because it got me away from my sleep study space you need to separate those out or else you won't get anything done where's my apartment i have my kitchen i have a family room and i have my bedroom and i luckily have my own bedroom so that's my own personal sleeveface if i need to get away from people or calm down or do stress i can go there which is a lot easier than being in a dorm because in a dorm you're also on campus constantly so you never leave the school atmosphere so in high school you come to school you go home you do your homework you relax to eat you're just way more or less we are a lot busier so in school if you're only in the dorms you're still on campus even when you're not in class so it almost never leaves school so just really adds to the stress because there's always something going on whereas an apartment off campus or even downtown and state college you feel like you least left for the day you have like well that ended and now this starts i can start my homework or eat dinner something so i know that you have a lot of issues with your own friends and their roommates what does the school do to help with those conflicts and situations where other kids are uncomfortable so we had an r a my freshman year that was absolutely awesome and she would come to our rooms at least once a week and ask us like our week was going and if everything was ok and if we had any problems please come to her and her door was open during certain hours and she would never before she would confront your roommate about anything i never had any problems but i had girls in the dorms that did and she would ask you would you want to stay here tonight i mean you can have my bed not sleep on the floor she didn't care like she just wanted to make it easier for you and i had a lot of friends that have that same experience and that there are as we're just that wonderful to them and they're there really to help you so if you have any issues even with studying with your roommate anything you should really go to them they're a great resource so i know that as you just said you had a lot of friends going out into the college world in your dorm how does that change when you move to an apartment around this much this at a club so my meter is a little bit different than most major go biology four hundred people in your class six hundred people depending on the school size well for architectural engineering we are one hundred people that's it per year so we really just follow each other around every semester and it's basically a many high school and there's gossip and it's whatever but you learn to be friends with those people and you have project based classes so really but at the end of the day after you're done doing a project you want to get away from them anyway like let me just go back to my apartment i'll see you tomorrow but sometimes you're on campus until eleven o'clock even though  like don't want to be there like i had to finish this project so even though your friends are on campus or away from where you are in an apartment you see them all the time especially because you make friends with the people you have classes with so you really follow around the people in your major but if you go  ed you will have the people in your classes that also have to do the required penn state or your college classes there just english and things like that and you definitely meet people in those classes and you see them around but well it's good because i'm currently into science and it's panicking me so but so you spoke about your workshops you've told me all about it you've been i've been here labs and everything for school how do tend to the situation where your partners are not doing anything they're not helping you and i doing anything what do you do well i'm passive aggressive so i actually i take hold of the situation every time we have a group project so as soon as we get together i say guys in a group leader this week that person is deciding what we're doing what time are meeting who's getting what and they're signing assignments and not having this going to be a crazy thing where we're like oh well who did that and who's going to do this and the student morrow and no one took care of this i'm not dealing with that so i take hold at the beginning of the at the beginning the project or the section of the you can say ok with a half hour time slot and i write down what i'm supposed to be doing in that hour so that i'm not sitting on the couch and i have so much to do and i'm just so overwhelmed by the lists of things i have to do that i don't do any of it drawing out well this half hour i'm supposed to be sleeping it tells me well you only have in the us time to get this done you're supposed to be doing it between these times and that's it like you have to stick to a schedule or it's not going to get done which is the most useful thing for finals week reading out my half hours because otherwise i pretty much would fail all of my finals just sitting there going and i want to do it but i would that's that's currently why i'm struggling in most of my classes right now as a senior so i believe we do not have as much time as