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Cathy -- Stay focused and finish college now. Your mental and physical abilities are at their peak and you have no one to worry about except yourself. You have the ability to go to school full time, with grant and scholarship monies paying your entire way. Those funds won't always be there! You have no bills at this point, and this is the only time in your life you will be able to say that. When the opportunity comes to "start your career", don't be so anxious that you throw away your best chance to really make something of yourself. Don't assume that you can always go back to school next year to finish your degree. Next year becomes another year, and life will always seem to get in the way. Once you have a husband and children, it is impossible to put your wants and needs first above theirs. Then, when you finally are able to go back to school, it will not be as easy as it once was and you will be relying on loans to pay your way. Stay strong and hang in there. It will be worth it in the end, I promise!

If I could talk to myself as a high school senior deciding about college I would have a lot of advice to give. First, I would tell myself to take a deep breath and not be scared to begin this journey. Going to college will help you expand how you think by listening and learning not just from your professors, but from your fellow students too. Don't be afraid to raise your hand and ask questions because one question will most likely have many answers. Participate and enjoy working with your team mates because they are part of your support team. There will be times when you will be exhausted, but dont give up. Finish your assignments, earn your grades, because in the end earning and holding your degree will be worth it. Going to college will help you learn not just new subjects, but teach you how to be the person you most want to be. The toughest decision you will ever make will be to take the first step to go to college. It is important to keep your mind open to new ideas, and allow yourself to enjoy this journey.

The first thing you need to know, choosing to further your education is perhaps the single most important choice you can make. It will change everthing for the better, take this chioce seriously and understand that it is the right choice. The future will hold great things for you, so long as you make that choice to care about what happens to you and those you care about. Know what is important, keep that in mind when setting your goals and never lose sight of those goals. You do have the power to change the world, it depends on whether you want to change it for the good or for the worse.

College as a teenager should be the best time of your life. Go to school, get your education, and enjoy your life at this time because the "real" life soon starts. Be dedicated. Build a relationship with your teachers. Ask for help. Join a study group for those classes that offer the greatest challenge. Never give up!

Although every point counts, you have to understand that nobody is perfect. If you stress yourself out over every single mistake you will make it impossible to pick yourself back up from it and move forward. The best thing to do when you find that you got a lower grade than you wanted to is review the concepts again later. When you do that it helps you to make sure you know what's going on before you continue to build on the ideas in future sessions. Also, don't ever take the feedback your instructors give you on assignments personally. Instead use their remarks to improve the work that follows. When you are working in learning teams, always have a back up plan in case someone does not follow through with their end of the assignment. If you have trouble focusing on your work, get up and do something else for 5 minutes, but always come back to it. But the most important piece of advice I can give you is remember why you are doing this in the first place... Because by focusing on the reasons, you will be able to focus on the work that needs done.

Piece of advice for my high school self- don't take your education for granted. These are the best years of your life, don't let them pass you by. Go to class, do your work, and enjoy the education you are receiving. Go ahead and join the debate team without caring what your friends think of you. Say hello to that girl shrinking in the shadows, afraid of being noticed. You just might make her day. Be yourself. College will be here and gone before you know it, and the real world will be there. Nobody is going to care if you were the head cheerleader or the prom queen. Disipline yourself before college. Professors aren't there to hold your hand. It is all up to you to make something of yourself. You create your own destiny.

I would have given myself a good kick in the butt.I would have told myself the only true person is myself .And to count on myself and no one else to provide for my well being .To have the knowledge that i do now .Not a day goes by that i'm not happy i finally decided to go back .I can now look ahead instead of living day by day.And the bonus is being more of a positive role model for my children.

Don't waste time GO TO COLLEGE!!!

The first advice that I would give myself would be to take advantage of the free education that is given in high school. Even though you have enough high school credits to go home early everyday, you should fill those hours with classes. Stop worrying about the large volumes of homework associated with the advanced math and science classe,s because learning as much as possible before attending college classes will give you a huge advantage. I could not go to college even though I was a good student and had high ACT scores, because I was a student whose parents would not fill out the required financial aid forms. More advice that I would give my high school self is to find another way to make college happen. Talk to your teachers, counselors, and principals. The staff at your high school can help to make college attendence possible even if it seems impossible. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you ask and the answer is still no, you have not lost anything, and you can feel good that you tried everything possible.

The difficult part about this would be getting my younger more stubborn self to listen to me. Assuming of course that I would listen to myself, my message would be to get your head straight and to stop worrying about things that you can not help or even change. I would tell myself to focus more so on my education so as to be able to transition directly from high school to college. I would explain to my self how waiting to continue my education will in the long run make it much more difficult to make the choice of furthering my education. As an individual in both middle and highschool I was a very smart guy and was noticed by many teachers, I however did not take this to mean much and went through a rough few years after my sophmore year in highschool, due to me not understanding the way that my own mind work and without understanding that I was born for greatness. I would tell my self all of this and say that if I can just understand this my future may be a little bit easier and more so set on a track of events.