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If I could go back in time to talk to myself as a high school senior, I would give myself a heavy dose of reality. For financial reasons, I knew I was going to Bucks County Community College since my sophomore year. As a result, I didn't take it seriously. After all, everyone gets into community college. Early on in my college career, I found the general education courses to be dreadfully easy. This only added to the facade that community college was simply an extension of high school. As I progress with my business degree, the more complicated mathematics courses are standing in the way of my transfer to Temple University. This is where my naive high school self has created a painfully stressful environment. The mathematical content that I rolled my eyes over in high school and didn't take seriously are now coming back to bite me. If you have ever been required to take a calculus course, you know how dependent become on your factoring practice over the years. High school Collin Mazer thought math was unimportant and useless, and now college Collin Mazer is paying a grave price. Take school seriously.

I already knew that I would be going to a community college because my family and I could not afford a four year school. At first I was discouraged; feeling like I won’t have the full college experience. It was the first stepping stone of a new chapter of a new book I was about to write in my life. From my short time at Bucks I have learned not to rush anything. Whether it may be test in financial accounting or just wanting the next two months to fly by so I could visit my friends at another college. I’ve also learned that the stigma of community college is overrated and underestimated. The school has plenty of programs to help students. Finally, the last tidbit of advice I would give myself would try to understand the concept of change. It’s very hard to understand the various parts of life that constantly change in your life with friends moving away, pressure of success or the passing of a loved one. Once you understand the notion that the one constant in life is change, then life itself becomes a little bit easier.

Go to a university instead of community college

Ignore what your dad will say, apply for scholarships. It will make paying for everything much easier. He went to college over 30 years ago, and he does not know what he is talking about. He will think that going to community college will be enough to reduce the cost to a reasonable amount, but he will be totally wrong. Additionally, what he will want is not the same thing as what you will want. Already having $10,000 will make convincing him that the college you want to go to is the right college much easier. Try to find a job that pays more than bussing and dishwashing. There are other people your age making twice as much as you waitering, so finding a job like that is not impossible. The less dependent you will be on loans the better.

The advice I would give my past self is too not take high school for granted. I would tell her that it would of been a good idea to look for scholarships rather than now. College is money.

The advice I would give myself would of the wisest statement. To stay on the course you chose back in highschool and not let anyone deter you regardless of who they are and what they think they know.

Senior year of high school is a stressful, yet exciting time. With the college application process, perfecting those SAT scores, and focusing on academics all at the same time, can cartainly be a challenge. Senior year is the most important year of highschool. It determines how much you will be awarded for scholarships, what school's you'll get accepted to, and is the next big step for marvelous future endeavours. As graduation approaches closer and closer, the excitment of being released from gradeschool and into the college world grows bigger and bigger. This makes for distractions, and loss of motivation, also known as "senioritis". If I could talk to myself as a high school senior, I would have told myself to perservere through the temptations of slacking on assignments, and strived to gain the most out of the last few weeks of being a senior.

In high school, I thought I knew it all and I was impervious to the hassles of growing up. I was wrong yet I took no initiative to learn or to grow mentally. In the long run, I did not utilize advisors at school and picked my classes based off of what I wanted to take. This was not a smart decision. I ended my first run at school in 2010 because from the look of my transcript, I was a Math, Music, and Liberal Arts major; I was getting nowhere fast. It took a lot of soul searching and research to find out what my true passion was: electrical engineering. So I took off to learn all I could so I could go to school again and prosper with a wealth of knowledge, and with a 4.0 GPA. I would tell myself “do not take school for granted and follow your one true path.” I did not realize I could always have hobbies. I thought I had to be an expert in everything all at once, yet from my experience, this did not work. My high school self would thank me for giving these words of wisdom.

If I would take to my high school self about college I would tell myself to choose the career path that I truly wanted to do. When I started attending college, I choose the major my parents wanted me to do and I hated it, I did not do well in classes, I was upset all the time, but I finally had confidence and told my parents what I really wanted to do and chnaged my major. But now it is hard to flip between majors and change classes. But finally everything is going to plan, and the way I see my future, but I wish I would have done it earlier.

Don't be afraid to ask for or seek out help. Who cares what people have to say. It's okay to struggle. Do what you need to do to succeed in life. You have to live with your decisions, no one else.