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I would tell my high school self to be prepared for the amount of work that I would soon be dealing with because in college the amount of work one hasto do, greatly picks up. However, I would advise myself to also be more sociable upon first coming to college. You basically have one chance to make new friends during your freshman year at college and then that is it. Afterwards, it can be hard to feel like you belong in a group of friends. I would also tell myself to avoid any and all parties and instead focus on personal an intellectal growth even during free time. This personal growth, however, should be done with others while enjoying wholesome activities. The last key thing that I would tell myself is that everything will be okay and to relax because I will find my soulmate at the college I am now attending and that she will complete me. In short, I would do everything I could to reassure and comfort my past self and make it clear that all my hard work payed off because I made it into a great school even though I come from a humble background.

There's so much about yourself that you don't know yet, High School Eva. There's so much about life that you just don't know yet. Your first weeks of college aren't "the transition," like you might have heard. All four years of college are "the transition." For all four years of college, you will be living with Mom, and yet you will also be on your own. In college, you're an adult, but you aren't yet. You still have to learn how to become a person. I still have to learn how to become a person. Unfortunately, we won't just wake up one morning and be fully fledged. You will be more lost and more alone and more sad than you have ever been when you go to college, but that's just being a person, and that's good. Some classes will excite every nerve in your body and make you feel electric with knowledge, and some will be a burden. You'll get through it. Trust me, you'll get through it. You'll learn so much about yourself - scary, uncomfortable, mean things, but you'll get through it. I promise.

If I could go back in time, I would tell myself to study harder, ask teachers more questions, and try harder. I say study harder because my study habits were good, but I could have done better because I could have put more time into studying. I made good grades but if I would have studied harder I could have made even better grades. I usually made between As and Bs but I could have made all As. The reason I say ask more questions is that I usually knew all the answers but some times I refused to seek assistance I wanted to push myself until I found it out. I never asked the teachers for help because, I felt ashamed becaused I always knew the answers. I should have tried harder because I was second in my class; I wanted to be first. But I didn't try hard enough to fulfill this goal. I was less that a tenth of a point away from being first. This angered me because I was close. All of these traits would better prepared me for college.

Learn to say “no”. The key to success is not the things that you do, but the things that you do not. A major reason why high school is so stressful is a lack of this knowledge. When the boss at your part-time job asked you to keep working 30 hours a week, you should have said “no”. When your friends asked you to throw a party while your parents were away, you should have said “no”. When a classmate asked to cheat off of your homework, you should have said “no”. As you move into college, you will learn the importance of “no”. If you accept every beer that is handed to you, join every club, and overload yourself with classes you cannot manage, the consequences will be dire. The secret is silence the outside pressure and listen to the voice within that cries “no”. It may sound like this advice is disregarding “yes”, but no one needs to be told when to say “yes”. You already know what you want to do, and who you want to be. You are already on the right track. The key to staying on is “no”.

The advice I would give myself would be to not put off furthering my education. I believed I could work for a year and then I could attend college. It is now ten years later and I just finished my first semester.

I would tell myself to get a tutor for calculus. My life would have been much easier. Also, take more Italian classes and go abroad for a semester instead of a month. Otherwise, college life was the best thing for me.

You might not need to pack for college until a month before the big move-in, but as as a high school senior, you owe it to yourself to start packing a mental suitcase of sorts. Get to know all your teachers as best you can with your remaining time in high school. The science teachers may have already written recommendations for you, but that hasn't exhausted all the widom they have yet to share. So, speak up; start a conversation. It needn't be centered on class topics either. Teachers have lives, too: experiences, favorite books. Get used to conversing with educators, since interactions with Professors, especially in their office hours, is key to excelling in college. Picking up a novel or two here and there wouldn't hurt, either. Reading is one of the greatest tools of learning and of the imagaination, and it certainly won't disappear in college. Make the most of senior year, in both academia and world experiences, for the wits you pack now will prove of use in the future.

I have received self esteem . I have been able to show my daughter that its never to late to change your life and make it something you are happy with at the end of the day.

I came to Colby thinking that I knew who I was, what my values were, and what I wanted. But Colby, you have done your job. As a top-ranked liberal arts college that prides itself on expanding students' knowledge in a diverse range of subject areas, in that I have excelled more than I ever could have imagined. I thought I loved English. Then Colby, you showed me sociology. I thought I hated science, then Colby, you introduced me to the chemistry of the gym. I thought I hated camping, and in my first week in Maine, Colby, you stuck me in a cabin with 9 other "COOT babies" and helped me form stronger bonds in 3 days than I had formed during the previous 18 years of my life. I thought school defined me, but then Colby, you helped me find many more interests; every day, you help me find myself in so many unexpected ways. And to this, Colby, all I can say, is thank you.

it has been fun i will learn more here than i did in high school, the teachers will help you no matter what it is