Honors College Case Study

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1.What was yoand estaur motivation for joining the honors college? Well one it's free and education is very expensive in the US and my train of thought was why start of college in debt when I can go my two years for free, they can cover everything and ill be able to transfer and possibly get a really good scholarship because I have, you know that, backing that I went to the honors college and follow a career with less debt the someone who just straight transferred to whatever university they wanted to.
2. so tell me a little bit about the process of actually getting into the honors college.
Well, the process is that you have to be a good student throughout your entire high school like 4 years, and just not only with grades but they also
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I'm currently working with a friend to startup Circle K, I'm in the fitness club (laughs) and I know there's another one and currently for my spring semester I want to join Phi Theta Kappa.
7.So what positions do you hold in any in the clubs?
Well currently I hold historian for MAPS and I hold event plan coordinator for the YES club
8.why are you so involved, cause that’s a very big struggle for a lot of college students to be involved to be in these clubs so what's your determination to be involved ?
So Honestly it's just cause it fun, like you know many people would say oh because it gets you far and when you apply to schools or scholarships these things go on your resume and they go on your this and on your that and it's true and it does help out but I just I just and it is good but I just do it for fun like I do have fun volunteering and meeting people and talking to friends and that’s my motivation and honestly you can balance it balance is possible like I'm part of Three clubs and I have a lot of coursework but you just have to find balance.
9. ok so what are your goal while your in school like I want to do this by this and do X at this

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