Advantages, Disadvantages, & Strength

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LCC Center for Student Access Consultant Andy George works with students with disabilities needing academic support and classroom accommodations. He grew up in the Lansing area and regrets having not gone to LCC prior to MSU, where he graduated with a degree in psychology in preparation to be a marriage counselor. He pivoted to education, mentoring, and coaching students and has found a way to live-out his passion to help others grow and succeed.

Andy shares that he felt pressured in college to hurry up and make a decision about a lifelong career, since college is expensive. He now encourages students to take the time they need to make a good decision about their futures. And he discourages them from making unhealthy comparisons to others they see in college. Both he and Jim talk about how it’s impossible to know all the advantages and disadvantages that a person is carrying around, based on their life experiences and resources.

Success in life includes gaining new skills to meet novel challenges, and even to deal with familiar challenges that come to us in a new way. Jim and Andy encourage people to view challenges from a Growth Mindset, understanding that even when life may not get easier, we can become stronger.

• LCC’s Center for Student Access (​​https://www.lcc.edu/services/access/contact.html)
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990)