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Student Success Stories: Alice

A second chance was what I needed to restart my life.  Before I began the Honors Program at Highline, I was not your ordinary student.  I was actually very pessimistic about college because I struggled with achieving scholastic goals in high school.  However, looking back now, I have come to realize that school (all together) was challenging because I had no sense of direction, focus, and future.  I lived everyday as it came and did not have confidence in myself to achieve any dreams.  This is where Highline and the Honors Program gave me not just a helping hand, but a body of helping persons. 
 
Since my time at Highline, not only have I graduated with a 3.8 GPA, along with being an Honors Scholar, but I have found a sense of security.  I now have confidence to dream big and achieve even bigger goals.  I am still awed by the fact that I, once a high school skipper-slacker, am currently attending the number one nursing school in the nation!  From that, I know that this was all possible because Highline and the Honors Program gave me a chance...a chance to prove myself wrong and to let myself know that I am capable, that I am smart, that I am worth it.   
 
From these experiences, I know that Highline has a unique and different approach to and for students.  Please take advantage of it as I did.  Some of us may need second chances, or even third, fourth, and fifth chances.  Either way, Highline has a body of helping persons that will move you to achieve the unthinkable and direct you to the right path.  Don't be afraid to live out your dream.

 

Last updated: August 24, 2007

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