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If I could go back in time I would tell myself That school is imporatnt and will make a difference in my life. I was always just trying to get through a class to graduate. Now that I am older I soak all the knowledge up like a sponge. I want to be the best I can be and work very hard to maintain an "A " in all of my classes. For me it is more than just saying I went to college and obtained a degree, I want to be able to say I succeeded, worked hard, was a honor student, and maintained a GPA over 3.9. My parents never pushed college only graduation of High School. Now that I am a parent I know the importance of having a college degree. Jobs are more available and with higher pay. Attending a college and obtaining a college degree makes the difference of having financial freeddom versus working an hourly wage for the rest of your life and longing for things you can't obtain or buy.

Have no fear of the uknonw! Being able to further my education is going to allow me the opportunity to seek the career that I am passionate about as well as the help me with advancing within that career. Nothing is going to be giving to me freely, I must put forth effort and determination, as well as dedication and responsibility if I am to reach my full potential. The world is full of people that have made the transition to further their education and have set positive examples for those of us that are also considering that, I can do whatever I set my mind, the first step must begin with me!

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself everything will turn out perfect. As a senior, I was worried about how I was going to get a good paying job fast to pay all my bills, so I could move out of my mother's house and be on my own. I made the choice to not go to college right away, but instead attend a vocational school. At seventeen years old, if I knew I would be married to a man who serves our country as an apache pilot, moved to and lived in three different states, had a deployed husband, have a three year old and three month old all before I turned twenty-five years old, I probably would have ran in a different direction. There are times I wish I would have gone to college right after high school, but when I look back at everything I have in my life, I smile with pure joy. The transition to college has had challenges, but I would not want to change anything about how my life has led me to where I am today.

If I could tell myself anything back then, I would tell myself to work hard and never lose track of what your goals are. I would tell myself what Steve Jobs told his fans. Don't get trapped by dogma - living with the results of others thinking. Live life for yourself and your dreams. Don't chase a job for money, chase a career for passion. Have pride in everything you do, no matter what it is. Even if you have to dig ditches to support your family, be the best damn ditch digger there ever was. Most of all, I would tell myself to not sell myself short and to follow my gut. We all truly know what we want out of life, we just have to have the courage to follow our intuitions and live life for ourselves before we live it for anyone else.

The advice I would give myself is that when you have a dream you should pursue and never give up. There are moments where it may seem hard and you will not succeed, but in order not to defeat yourself and the destiny that is planned for you, you must push on. Prove to yourself that you can do , continue to move forward, and remember To Much Success Is Given!

Start college as soon as possible once you graduate. If you wait to long it will be like starting over. Enjoy your time at school because once you get in to the real world you will miss it. Study hard and do your best so that you can achieve your dreams instead of just getting by.

To: Self From: Self This is a brief note from your 33 year old self. Since I am the one who knows you best, I believe you need to take heed to this pertinent advice. It will drastically change you! I know that things are hard now due to family hardship. I know that you are considering leaving your honors classes to have time to work to take care of your mother and young brother. I also know that you are experiencing great pain in your body due to a stress related illness. Please do not drop out of school to get a general education diploma. You are very intelligent and have a bright future. You do not have to take on the responsibility of caring for the family. You are a child and need to focus on your education. If you do not, you will not be able to continue your education until you are 33 years old. You will be sorry that you spent this time sacrificing for people that will turn their back on you as soon as you begin to live life for yourself. Focus on your dreams. P.S. Adopt the girls!

If i could go back in time twenty years to when I was a high school senior, I would give myself a few words of advise. First and foremost, I would say that imidiate gratification is just that and only that, immediate. The old saying, "anything worth having is worth waiting for" is very true. Instead of going off and taking a job that payed o.k. but had no real future, I should have gone on to college then, and saved myself two decadres worth of mistakes and missteps. Secondly, I would say, "you really can do anything you dream of doing, IF you work hard for it" . Those two pieces of advice could have saved many years of frustration. And the idea that one can follow thier dreams was really never instilled in me until later in life. Now, that is what i am doing.

Dear Emily DO NOT take a gap year. I know you think it's going to help your depression and anxiety and you want to focus on that, but if you just spend the next two years (and yes, the gap year /will/ turn into 2 years) sitting at home afraid of the world, you're not getting your mental health in order. You're just being a coward. Don't try to follow Caitlin to Palomar or MSJC just because she's safe. You can't cling to her your whole life. You don't want to be a Publicist. You want to be a teacher. You've always wanted to be a teacher and a writer. Just because everyone else wants to be a teacher too doesn't mean you can't be. You are being riddiculous. Also, Avoiding scary things isn't a good way to go through life. Sometimes, growing up is scary. It's okay to not always do the safe thing because sometimes you need to push yourself. You can do more than you think you can and avoiding scary things only makes you think you can't.

When I was in highschool I was not aware that not all colleges are created equal. Everyone told me that higher education is an investment in myself. I continue to agree with this statement, however just like any other investment research must be done. I wish I would have looked at the satisfaction of the current students and what the fauculty is intersted in. I wish I would have asked myself not to work so much on top of a stressful school schedule as well. For my first few classes I wish I would have gotten my money's worth rather than just trying to pass the class. I believe that college and higher education should nurture the student and help them grow rather than try and take on a bigger work load than what the faculty is prepared to work with. As and ending note, I would have told myself that I was way more smarter than I thought I was and needed to be braver academically.

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.