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Take your SAT's. Don't follow the plan you have, it won't work out. Focus on yourself and your education, and let everything else come in its own time. Your education needs to be your top priority, and you can do a lot better than you think you can.

If I could go back and have a conversation with my high school self, I would render two pieces of advice. First, I would tell my younger self to find a mentor. Specifically, to seek out someone who I felt I could look up to, and could turn to during times of trial or difficulty. The reason for this suggestion is that for much of my formative life, and even now to some extent I have a difficult time finding people whose advice I feel I can rely on, and in turn I feel that this has been a significant obstacle in my development. Second, I would instruct my younger self to spend less time worrying about how we are perceived by others, and more time looking at what sort of person we want to be, and on understanding the reasons behind why we should want to be that sort of person. In essence, the advice would be to broaden our mind as much as possible and across the breadth of intelligences, not just the logical, which was and is my strongest nature.

If I could go back in time and change my college life, I would have completed through with a PhD and focused my career in healthcare management or research. As a woman working full time and supporting my family, I wish I had understood the value in completing my education earlier in life. I finished my Associate's Degree in Nursing at the age of 19 and had planned to start the RN to BSN program within a year after graduation. Two and a half years ago, in my late 40s I finally returned to school to obtain my degree in Project Management. In less than 9 weeks I will complete this degree and plan to return for my Master's in the fall/winter of this year. My goal is to obtain a MS in Leadership and work my way up to an executive level position either within the organization I am currently employed with or explore new opportunities. As an adult learner, I do see some advantages for the ability to add real-life applicaation for what I am learning and value this more today than I did 30 years ago.

I would say start immediately with college. Review schools until you are sure you found the one you want to attend to avoid the transferring process. Education is needed to be successful in life and there are no shortcuts in life. Take a field of studies in demand and you will enjoy, money is not everything. Do your best the higher the GPA the more opportunities for a better job. Do not be afraid to ask for help in college. If you fall behing the catch up is too hard and will lead to failure. Follow instructions in class and for scholarships this is crucial. Student often lose scholarships by not reading the instructions. In class not following instructions costs grades, lowering the GPA. When writing proofread everything even these essays for scholarships. Good grammar counts in all parts of life, if you cannot communicate it is a problem. Manners need to be taken into account, foul language, cellphones, and disrespect are going to get you no where in school. Above all have some fun also to prvent burning out on studies. Do not be a party person be a good student having fun sometimes.

I would tell myself to stop playing video games, stop wasting my time with friends, and to get myself enrolled in college. Your education is very important to you and don't waste your time with people and things that aren't important. There is a bigger picture out there that you need to experience and college is the gateway to that.

If I could go back and talk to my past self I would tell myself to participate in more extracurricular activities and become more social. I have always been the shy girl so I would always through myself in my school work to avoid confrontation. When I made the transition over to Lake Michigan College I found that I did fine with the school work and the classes, but when it came to socializing and participating with the other students I struggled. I eventually became better at it and made friends and joined clubs like the skydiving club, the literary society, and the zombie survival club. I just think that if I had been more social in high school it would have made the transition into college social life easier.

If I could go back in time, I would tell myself to follow my dreams. Do not wait too long to go back to school and enjoy campus life. Full time online schooling while working full time hours is a stretch and will wear you down quickly.

When you start college, hang in there. Study and stay fouce.

The best advice I would give myself is not to take the opportunity of going to college for granted. I would tell myself that I need to focus on school and take the time to get good grades. Other things in life can wait till the school work is done. I would also tell myself to make a budget and stick to it no matter what, because this in the end would help with the transition to the college life. Living on your own is not easy at times. Having to figure out how to balance work and college can be tough. I would tell myself to focus on school because that is what will get me far in life, and to work only as much as I need to. This way school is my number one priority.