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The advice I would give myself as a high school senior would be: really think about what you enjoy doing in life. Think about going to college right after high school and not putting it off for 4 years. Don't waste your money on needless things so that you can pay for part of college and be financially stable when you graduate. Study hard and try and get the best grades you can on every test you take and every report you write. Great grades will help your future be successful instead of jumping around from job to job trying to find one that is secure. Also, when you go to college, live on campus instead of commuting from home. There is so much more to learn and enjoy while being there so take advantage of that. So much time is wasted driving back and forth from home to school to work that could be used studying or meeting new people. Enjoy college and work hard, and your life will be filled with elation.

The famous writer, Elbert Hubbard, appropriately described the college experience in one quote; ?We work to become, not to acquire.? It is a common misconception that college is where you learn how to do what you want to do. If I could tell my high school self anything about the transition, I would want to tell her that college is about becoming an adult by learning how to balance the eternal battle of work versus play. College is voluntary and expensive. No one is there to tell you to do homework, go to class, or not go out the night before. You are the only person who controls how you manage your time. You make your own decisions, right or wrong, and receive the rewards or consequences accordingly. High school is only a speed bump in what life really requires. I see college as an introductory course to the major of adulthood. My high school self most likely would have ignored the advice given. With a little bit of hope, she would have stored those words of wisdom, in anticipation to utilize them at the appropriate time, allowing her an easier transition into the more defining stage of life.

If I could go back in time and tell myself something from when I was in high school, I would tell myself to make time for studying. in high school, it's pretty easy to go into a test and not study or prepare yourself except for ten minutes in advance. Well in college, the first semester I found out pretty quickly that I need to study and prepare myself weeks before the test, an dkeep up on the schooling and notes that i've taken for different tests. So, if I could go back and tell myself something in high school, it would be to make sure i actually studied for a test, not just 10 minutes before the test starts, but a week or so before the test.

If I were to go back and give myself advice, I would keep it focused on three things. The first thing is to stay on top of work and time management. It's a much better idea to study after class for half an hour every day than to try and cram studying in the night before a test. If you set apart a specific time for studying consistently, the rest will go smoothly academically. The second thing I would let myself know is that you don't have to be involved in every single thing like you were in high school. It's important to be involved in the things you care about, but it is not okay to fill every moment of every day with an activity just because it is fun or because you liked it in high school. Stick to the things you really care about. Lastly, I would let myself know that it is important to be open to new experiences and people in college. Meeting people from different backgrounds can really broaden your view of the world and of what you can handle in a friendship.

As a high school senior, I had already taken three college courses through Bloomsburg University and had grown accustomed to the campus and the college community. However, now that I am a full time college freshman, I believe that if I could sit down and talk to myself as a high school senior I would have one major tip. The tip that I would suggest to myself as a high school senior would be that study habbits are essential to succsess and to realize that all work that you do in college has a life long effect. The study habbits taught in today's high schools differ tremendously from the habbits practiced in college. Through taking the college courses that I have, I realized that once you fall behind in your studies at college, it is much more difficult to catch up than in high school. I truly wish that I could talk to myself a little over a year ago and explaing the techniques that I now know from application in my class setting. I would hope that in talking to my high school self, my advice would not only bennefit myself but would be passed to other students.

If I could go back in time and give myself advice on the transition from high school to college, I would take the chance and really prepare myself. In high school, you've known your classmates since kindergarten or so, but in college you don't know as many people. I would tell myself to become a social butterfly and learn how to remake friends. Also, in high school, the classes you take aren't exactly hard and the teachers give a ton of extra practice which allows less studying when it comes to tests. In college, the classes you take are based on knowledge you've gained in high school, but you don't get all the extra practice needed. I would then tell myself that I need to learn how to study effectively. Also, I would tell myself to get used to living in a small space with at least one other person, because you don't get nerly as much privacy as you did at home.

The advise that I would give myself if I could go back is to enjoy the freedom you have in highschool because even though college is even more freedom you have to balance your own life and when you are going to do things. In college there is a lot more freedom but with freedom comes responsibility.

Some advice that I would give myself as a High School senior is to be more prepared and even more organized. Being enrolled in a college or university demands that you have the organizational skills to be successful. Whether it's something as small as having a day planner or as big as having hundreds of Post-Its up everywhere reminding you of events and tasks at hand its always good to have some kind of organizational skills. This goes hand in hand with being prepared for classes, clubs, events etc... Being prepared and organized has helped me become a more effective and meticulous student.

Hello senior Cornell. Its me from frehman year of college. I know are any things you re curious about and many questions you want be answered. Unfortunately I am limited to words so I'll make this brief. I don't feel that I was all the way prepared in going to college. But you have the chance to change that. You are a very talented person and very bright and its time you start givng your all. giving 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of your potential won't cut it anymore. you have to strive harder and take classes more serious. Alsonow is the time to start managing money better, you'll need it. You'll soon realize that in the end you only have your self, so from hear on out its up to you to decide your future. College is full of many opportunities you have yto learn to be smart on all the things you want to take o. meaning make sure you stick with and manage all activities as well. my last advice to you is to be more social, networking is key in making it in life. Farewell senior, and good luck with our future. Love always Cornell.

Now that I look back on my high school career I wish that I had taken school as seriously as I do now. I unfortunatley valued football over my school work. Now I realize that there many student atheletes just like me who put the athelete before the student. A sport can never outweigh the value of an education, and although it may be too late for me, I can now help out others and especially my future children.