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Take everything serious. It is not as hard as it seems sometimes. Do everything possible to excel in school. Pay attention and study. Learn an instrument and play a sport. Strive to be the very best at both. Make Des Bryant fear you on the field, make Jimmy Page nervous to get up and play a guitar in front of you. Enjoy a healthy social life. The most important of all is to learn to maintain a balance with all of this. Do not get so distracted by your friends and girls that it makes your grades suffer. At the same time do not get so caught up studying all of the time that you become a hermit and you lose out on things every kid should enjoy. It will all pay off in the end. You could get a scholarship for anything, so learn a lot about as much as you can and learn it well.

If i could go back in time and give my high school self advice I would say many things. First, stop worrying about boys and focus on bettering yourself. You must first find yourself before you can even imagine to find your significant other. Second, don't waste your time on people who don't appreciate it. Focus on your family and close friends, because they are the ones who truly matter. Thrid, always treat each and every person with kindness and look for the best in people. You never know what is going on behind the scenes and how much a smile can change a person's day.

I would advise myself to go to university straight from highschool. Work hard in highschool and it will help you tremendously in college. Apply for scholarships while in highschool and it will help you pay for college as you go. The better your grades are the better your scholarships will be. Work hard so you can focus most of your energy on school work instead of having to split your energy between full time work and part time school. Put in the work for a couple years while your young and the rest of your life will benefit from that hardwork.

To know as much lesson and retain as many words as you can because some of the stuff that are given to us in college are review of our High School. There where somet6imes in High School that i would forget my work at home but if you do that in college it is going to affect you a lot in class. making our grades go up is quiet difficult than making it drop. the teachers always told us to turn in our homework when we get to college and i understant now what she meant by it.

If i were to go back and talk to my high school self i would say not to get too invloved with the social part of college, although its great to meet new people and make friends once i began making them i started not wanting to go to class so i could hang out with them. College is about learning about your career and although it's important to make friends its not the main thing to be focused on. I would also say that high school is nothing like college, i thought i was busy during high school but college has shown me that i had a lot of free time in high school that i didn't take advantage of. I would tell my high school self to enjoy the simplicty of high school but to also look forward to the new expireinces that come with college.

Future self. College will be nothing like high school... do not expect to have your hand held throughout this experience. The transition from high school to college is the most eye opening situation you will ever experience. I cannot tell you how much you need to take advantage of the education you’re getting now. Take advantage of the free books, all of the extended due dates and most importantly to the extra hours of sleep. When you get to this point, you will hardly get sleep, whether it be because you stayed up trying to meet those due dates or because you can’t stop thinking about how you’re going to afford all your materials. College is no joke. But it is an opportunity not many people get, so please take advantage. It will build your knowledge further and be the path to your career. Enjoy yourself now and prepare yourself for the near future.

I would tell myself that learning to make a homework schedule is key to get high grades in your first year because no one is going to remind you of the homework due dates and once the deadline passes there is no turning in the assignment late. I would also stress the importance of financial reponsibility as it is hard to keep a job that gives plenty of hours and still go to school and maintain high grade standards, also stressing how money can be spent very fast when on campus for long hours every day. The last thing that I would tell myself is that making new friends and meeting new people is easy, all you have to do is open up and be yourself and people will accept you. Moreover I would say that there are no such things as cliques in college and anyone can be friendly, and most poeple are, if you are friendly back.

I would tell myself to take a chance. I was offered 4 full rides to different universities but didn't attend any of those schools so I could stay close to home. Now I wonder what life would have been like if I had taken any of those scholarships. I would also tell myself to figure out what I want to do with my life sooner. Yes it seems kind of soon to know what you want to be when you graduate, but if you have a general idea you can at least take classes geared towards that. Changing majors and losing all the credits you had isn't very fun. Another thing I would tell myself, is to just be me and have fun doing it. It's the best way to be.

Get your act together! Write the best college essays, and read them out loud, cry at how horrible it is, and start again. Have others read and edit them. Just because you don't recieve every single scholarship you applied for doesn't mean that you give up on the mad scholarship hunt. Don't stress too much about how hard college is (it's really not); worry about what dress you'll wear for prom, worry about your application documents are on file, go to football games, HAVE FUN!!! Senior year is the last year in which you can still be with your family and have freedom. Listen to your saint-like mother, she's right, you really don't know what cleaning is until you do it on your own. LEARN TO EAT HEALTHY!!!! Starbucks and Subway WILL NOT GET YOU BY. Do not over pack on move in day, you can bring stuff on your visits home. Even though getting out and socializing is hard, go to the events, talk to people, or else college is going to be extremely boring. Even if all the assignments are online, or attendance is not required....GO TO CLASS!!!!

Never give up. Don't assume that work will get itself done because honestly it won't. In order to succeed and reach the goals that you want to achieve put 110{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} into everything you do and don't look back. Without this drive to succeed you wont make it in this world. Don't just be a part of the curve, instead lead the curve with every bit of effort that you can put forth. With this in mind succeess is always in sight.