PIRATE TALES QUESTIONNAIRE

Please use this list of questions to help you think about your academic journey at Porterville College and life beyond. 

You may send your answers by email to the Foundation Office ([email protected]) or submit them using the online form. 

Please answer at least three Porterville College questions and as many optional questions as you wish. Feel free to include any other information you would like to share. 

Porterville College Questions

• What life circumstances brought you to Porterville College?
• How did attending Porterville College change your life?
• What was your most important moment or significant experience during your time at Porterville College? How did this moment/experience change you?
• Were there any hurdles you needed to overcome to be successful at Porterville College? If so, how did you overcome them?
• What, if anything, surprised you about attending Porterville College?
• What is your favorite memory of your time at Porterville College? Why?
• What is your favorite place on the Porterville College campus?
• How did graduating or getting certified from Porterville College change how you feel about yourself and your future?
• Would you recommend that your own children or grandchildren (if you have them) attend Porterville College? If so, what advice would you offer them about how to be successful here?
• If you could appeal to other Porterville College alumni to encourage their ongoing engagement with the college, what would you say?

Optional Questions

Career

• How has your Porterville College education helped you in your professional life?
• What is your philosophy about your work and where did you learn it?
• Have you had one career path or have there been several? Why?
• What has been the most interesting part of your current or previous career path?
• What is your best memory from a day at work?
• What’s the most challenging thing about your current career?
• What advice would you give to students wanting to follow similar career paths to yours?

Favorites

• What is your favorite….
  • cause to support or volunteer for?
  • daydream, time of day, season, or food?
  • Thing, person, or idea to collect?

Miscellaneous

• Which of your dreams have you realized in your life so far? 
• What's a near-perfect day for you now?  How has it changed over time?
• What inspires you to be your best self?
• Who have you motivated to succeed and how can you tell?
• What book(s) are you currently reading?
• Who is your all-time favorite author or what is the book you have read many times?
• What's ahead for you?  What possibilities exist?
• If the community would remember one thing about you, what would you want that to be?
• What are your primary relationships? Any children?
• Where were you born and raised?
• Where did you attend High School? Did you graduate?