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If you stop trying to hide from yourself and your life, you'll find it much easier to dedicate yourself to your schoolwork. Work hard at what's coming at you, you'll have a daughter in a few years and you're going to want to be a mother that she can be proud of, and as a college drop-out, you'll never feel like a mother worthy of such an amazing little girl. Try actually dedicating yourself to your studies instead of folding into yourself.

I would tell myself to wake up! The real world is coming fast and it's going to smack you in the face because you aren't ready! I would tell myself to quit spending money for no reason, study more and play less, look for scholarships! I would tell myself to quit wasting time. Do as much as you can to make the best grades you can to qualify for as many scholarships available. Study more for your ACT. Every little thing you do helps or hurts your future in some way. Learn now while you still can how to be independent, disciplined, structured, focused. Learn while you still have the time.

Do not get "senioritis". This is a term that many seniors use to explain their unwillingness to work. Your senior year is very important and it is important to keep your mind sharp during that time in order to get the last minute preparations that are very neccesarry for college. It is important learn all you can before you get thrown into college life. Organization is also very important. It is close to impossible to remember all your assignments in college so write them down in a planner. High school is a good place to get into the habit of doing so.

Other than giving myself advice to study a little more, meet as many people as I can, and doing my best at everything I would tell myself to forget about everyone else exepct me. Going to college is not about going to have a social life, its not about proving to other people our better then they are. I would tell myself to go to college for me. To prove just to me that I made it. My parents, family and friends cant do my homework or go to class, I have to. I would tell myself to keep going for me. But that the support of family and friends is important too.

One thing that I would definatly try to tell my high school self is to enjoy every moment of my senior year and college. Granted this is not directly related to schoolastic events, I feel that i overlooked many experiances that could have otherwise been very enjoyable. I would have told myself to look into any schoolarship opprotunities and to stay in touch with my family and friends. I would have also stressed that i needed to register for classes as early as possible in order to get the classes that I desired. One other thing that I would tell my high school self is to pay attention to job opprotunities and try a little harder to get a job when I transfered to UTM. And to live life, and stay true to my beliefs.

My advice to myself would be to get involoved and try my hardest in everything. Affording college is easy... as long as you have an excellent GPA and lots of extra cirricular activities and volunteer work. I did good in school, but its very hard for me to get alot of scholarships (even with my parents' low income), because I didn't participate in a lot of clubs or organizations and i didn't try my 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} best in every thing i did. I wish I could go back now and tell myself to work harder and get involved more. I believe education is something that shouldn't be played with, however I got caught up my senior year of high school and am now feeling the effects of my actions. If I would have put forth 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} effort and participated in school activites, I would have won scholarships, had enough money to go to school, and focus more on my education versus loans and debt,

Going back in time, I would tell myself to not waste time on classes that won't count towards my major. I have recently found out i took classes that won't count towards my major hours. I would also tell myself to buckle down and study as hard as I can, since my high school taught me no good study skills. College requires intensive studying and if I would've known that when I first started college I would have made myself study a lot harder than I have been studying.

I would tell myself nto to be so nervous and not to get so worked up and anxious.

Dear Younger, Dumber Mary Beth, You canNOT cook eggs in a cake pan... you will have to evacuate the building along with the other residents when the cake pan on the stove sets off the alarms. I know people make fun of you in high school for being so tall, when you get to college people will think it's cool! :) Don't date Tim. Keep Bryan. Start recycling now- our world really is in trouble. Most of all- be yourself and soak college up... it flies by too fast. :( You will make amazing friends! You will stay up waaaay to late playing guitar hero with crazy people when you have an 8:00 am test the next morning... TOTALLY WORTH IT! Dad will get pancreatic cancer- spend as much time with him as you can while he's healthy. Laugh 'til your mouth hurts. You think you can pay for college yourself? You did :) Even though mom and dad tried to give you money, you did it yourself! Crap happens- flush it. Be yourself- plain ol' Mary Beth from a little town in Tennessee and you'll be ok! :) - Trust Me On This One! - Wiser, Mary Beth

As a high school senior, I was very anxious about college. I knew it would be hard, but I was always curious as to how hard it would be. Would I be able to do it? I feel as if I doubted myself often, so my advice would be to have confidence in yourself, first of all. Also, I did not tour one single campus my whole senior year, which was a mistake. I'm curious if I would have picked another University if I could have seen one; so definitely take campus tours. My first semester of college was brutal. I had no idea how to study or take good notes. The stress was extreme. If I could do it again, I would tell my inner high school senior self to study more, so that I would be prepared for work in college. Lastly, I would tell myself to be more outgoing. I've always been a shy girl, but college allows you to change yourself into whoever you want to be. I've learned from my mistakes, and hope for a positive experience for the rest of my undergraduate career.