When I chose to go to Seward County Community College I didn’t actually plan on getting my associate degree. I figured I would go for two years, because that’s how long people go to community college, to save money on my general education courses. I was only really concerned with getting a four-year degree. My feelings changed when I chose my classes for the Spring 2013 semester. I noticed that I could easily get my associate of science if I just took one extra class. If everything goes right, by the summer of 2013 I will have a college degree. It will be the biggest accomplishment of my life up to that point and I didn’t even give it a lot of thought until recently. It’s not the most amazing thing in the world, but it can help me get a good job while I’m at a four year university. And if something goes wrong while going to school, I will still have my good old associates degree to lean back on until things get better. None of this really occurred to me until I realized how close I was to it. I think that if I understood earlier in my academic career how valuable an associates degree could be then I would have put more focus on getting it done. It’s upsetting to me that if I didn’t think about it and didn’t choose the right classes then I wouldn’t have anything to show for my two years at Seward. I highly advise that anyone who goes to SCCC/ATS to get their two year degree before moving on.