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Although I did very well in high school and my senior year, I would tell myself to work harder. I would tell myself to strive for better grades and a higher GPA. I would tell myself to get involved in more school organizations and volunteer some of my free time to help my community or the needy. I would also have told myself to go ahead and get a job, that way I could have more working experience for when I was older. I would have also told myself to enjoy my time as a high school student because college is a new experience. Even though I only go to a community college, there are alot more decisions I have to make. I also have to work harder to keep up my GPA so that I can continue receiving financial aid. I wouldn't change very much about my high school days, but I defnitely wish I worked a little harder.

My senior year in high school was amazing. Me and my friend live it to the fullest. I made good grades my senior year but still had fun doing it. The only thing i belive i would go back and talk to myself would be, to take in everything you get from your senior year. You will miss high school so much even if you hated school. I sure do miss high school, college is harder and takes alot more of your time than highschool did. I wish i could go back and just relive my senior year just one more time. Even though i lived my senior year to the fullest, there are so many things i miss and would love to have back.

Study alot harder for the ACT so you do not have to take the paraxis for your education major.

I would tell myself not to slack during my freshman year of college. To try harder so I would not be as confused come mid-term and final time.

Naturally, as most people would start, I would say that it is important to study as hard as you can, to really focus on making the grade, to be sure to make time for community service, and to start filling out scholarship applications as early as possible. And, naturally, as most high school students would do, the old me would brush aside any and all advice that anybody (including myself) would give him. See, while hindsight is always 20/20, nobody can really see anything for themselves in the future tense that isn't biased by what they want and what they fear. My foresight and performance was always cripplingly biased by my high school philosophy of "a person's potential is what they *could* do, it's what they actually do, because, left to their own devices, what they actually do is all that will ever get done." This meant to me that if I'm too lazy to study harder, that means I won't study harder, and therefore the advice to study harder is invalid. I guess, then, I would try to convince the old me that motivation comes from the inside and is one's potential.