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I would tell myself to GO FOR IT! I did not attend college after graduating from high school because of fear and doubts about surviving college life. Put your fears aside and jump in! I have lived with regret for not going to college when I had the chance. There are so many resources at colleges, not to mention family, to help with your transition. No one wants to see you fail. You may fall down, but just get back up and keep walking. There are people around to help hold you up. You'll be a better person for just trying!

When I was a high school senior I had a much different view on education, I just was not interested in continuing my education. To be quite honest I had a very hard upbringing and was more concerned with trying to get away from my house and all the stress than studying. So when I was younger my grades were never great, altough they were not bad either, just average. So this is what I considered myself, an average student, who had difficulty studying. I believed I would not be any more successful if I went on to college. Having lived on my own and worked many jobs always making just enough to get by I decided to go back to school. I would tell myself to take my education more seriously if I was advising a younger me, maybe a high school freshman. I do believe though that it was the difficulties I had on my own that motivated me to take education seriously, and without that experience I would have remained an average student. So I would tell my high school senior self nothing, because I believe the choices I made then have made me very successful now.

Going to CSUMB from a high school senior to a college freshmen was a huge leap being that in high school we werent prepared well enough for college. i wish if i had talked to myself as a senior i would of took my education as more as to my future and not a place were i hung out with my friends. Taking advice from many of my teachers was very benificial. i wish i would have followed it . All the "read your books with a lot of attention", "check your work twice", and " make sure to never procrastinate". High school was a good memorie but worrying more about hard work at school is better than working on how "fun" high school should have ended. i believe the saying "hard work pays off" or "goes a long way" is very true. Fun will always be around but education should always come first and should be done right and with effort.

"The sun will still shine honey," I'd say to myself. "After today when the robe is gone and the pretty balloons have flown away there is still tomorrow and you'll have to prepare. You have a bright future and its full of excitement and potential. What they say is true, you really can do anything if you put your mind to it. There's so much out there waiting beyond the bend, not all bad but not all good either and you have to keep your eyes on the prize and your feet on the ground. There will be time to fly but right now you need to focus on what is important. The next four years will be a whirlpool of choices and you have the power to make the ones that will bring you great prosperity and ones that will bring you down. College is not a bad place. Don't be afraid to take chances. Don't be afraid of the hard stuff. Listen to yourself, not others trying to hold back your potential. Never do anything that you know you will regret from the start. Remember we have to live your life, not others."

If I were able to travel back in time and talk to myself I would certainly encourage myself to persue my dream. Not long before graduating with my associates degree from community college I had the opportunity to take the sheriffs department exam. I didnt take it. I never took it. I would tell myself to stop making excuses and take the exam. I regret not becoming a police officer. If only I could have known then what I know now!

Go to college early and study hard. Do not stop even when the times get tough.

If I had a chance to come back in time, I would 1. work on improving my writing, analytical, and communication skills 2. take a few financial courses to avoid having debt 3. buy a used car instead of a new ones 4. explore a variety of physical activities to stay in shape

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If I could go back into time and talk as a high school senior, I would say college is a higher level of intellectual study and we will need better understanding and foresight to acheive the goal at hand. College is an institution for the proiment student who set their aims high and acheive his or her goal. To make this transition possible we must grow into matured adults. Try to aquire a college certificate or degree at any cost. Learn that patience is a virture and must be cultivated.

Take as much time as you need to make the right decision, because you will know it when it happens. Every one else will be pressuring you to choose a major or a college and you're still young, so take your time. When they end up with a degree that they do not want and have wasted the last four years of their lives on something that does not matter to them, you will know that you did what was right. College is easy if you make the proper adjustments. Senior year was really easy and you didn't have to try very hard, but you will need to manage your time better, and the future you knows you can be anything that you set your mind to.