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Be involved and engaged! Enjoy the college life while you are there. This does not mean to party all the time. It means to participate. Participate in the discussions to learn about yourself and others. Participate in the community by contributing time and sweat to a cause you believe in. Participate in the social scene - which ever social scene it may be - to find out where you stand in the world and where you can go. Participate to experience life!

Plan ahead for how you expect to pay for college. Mom and Dad are not a bank, and they wont be there to pay for everything once you enter the world of adulthood. With freedom comes responsibility. You are free to make your own choices, you are not free to choose your consiquences. Be smart, be responsible; plan for tomorrow instead of hoping someone else does it for you!

Given the opportunity to go back in time and advise myself to prepare for college, I would tell myself the following: Focus on your studies, not your friends. Your education is what will be with you until the end of time. Friends will come and go, but friends will not carry you through life and support your family. Do not have sex, but if you do, always be protected! I had a baby during my senior year and I wasn't able to go away to college. I wish I had the opportunity to experience what all my other friends are experiencing now. I am grateful that I graduated high school and am enrolled in a college, but it would have been easier without a baby. Study, take notes, and understand what you're learning. If you need help, connect with your teachers. You are not alone unless you isolate yourself. High school is the first test of independence. If you do not start here, you will struggle through college and adult life. I wish I could go back and do it all again, but I am going to make the best of my situation, for my son.

Dear Kaffia,I know you’re super eager to finish high school, you talk about it all the time. I’m just writing to tell you to slow down, absorb and appreciate your simple free life. Make sure that all the time you’re spending in Mrs. Newby’s room on the computers is used to actually fill out scholarships and not searching for prom dress at peaches. Stop over looking the scholarships that are less than $1,000 because every dollar counts and you know with it being 8 of us momma and daddy are going to have a hard time paying whatever your financial aid doesn’t cover. Apply for scholarships whenever you hear about or see them, because you don’t want to end up dropping out of Howard, the college of our dreams, moving to Arkansas to live with momma and getting three jobs to pay off your outstanding balance. Get all of your money in order Kaffia before you leave, save every penny that you make from the coffee shop and put it towards your tuition those shoes can wait!P.S. Make sure you take your nursing program seriously, your going to need it!

To care and appreciate more, and not to take anything for granted. When I first went to college, I didn't care about grades or studying, and I flunked out. I would tell my younger self about how much I have struggled to make my way in the world and how I desire to be self-sufficient. I would place great emphasis on the fact that I now have a daughter, and how much I yearn to show her the world, take her on trips, buy a beautiful home for her to grow up in, and a back yard all her own. I would tell myself about how every time I play with my baby girl, the only thing I want is to give her a wonderful life, and how everything I used to care about when I first went to college could never be as important as making my beautiful daughter happy.

Stay focused while you are young. Now is the chance to really get out there and develop new skills and learn information that will be priceless in your future. Do not worry about anything outside of school and doing well in school. It is so difficult to put life aside later and go back to school and making wrong decisions early on in life can seriously impact the choices you make throughout your future. Pay attention in classes, learn as much as you possibly can, and join clubs or organizations that promote social skills in the community and at college. If you do the work, study regularly, and ask questions when things are not clear, you are going to do really well. If you do not take college seriously right after high school it could be decades before you get the chance to redo your choice. The struggles that you will have to face without a college education are immeasurable. So focus now, be prepared to work hard, stay dedicated to your goals and dreams, and never give up. Nothing is outside of your reach if you just try and never give up.

Be more confident in yourself because you will succeed if you put your heart into it. Follow your dream, make time to attend and study, do not be afraid to speak up and be heard. Talk to those that are willing to help and gain as much knowledge as you can about anything and everything that you can because it will be a great tool to use later in life. Do as much research as you can to find all the scholarships and aid that you can to help pay for the tuition costs, do not be worried about talking to the finacial team to help find additional resources. Trust yourself a little more and take time to spend it with your family as well, they will not be around for long. Forgive yourself because they forgive you and love you, they only want to see you succeed even though they will not be there for it.

Knowing what I know now about college life and making the transition into college. I would have completed my general college courses during my senior year in high school. Completing my general college courses in high school would have giving me a jumpstart at completing my degree faster. As a result, I would have been ahead of my fellow students. Another problem that I faced in college I was lack of planning my degree program that I wanted to pursue; so my lack of planning resulted in me taking serveral courses that kept me further from the completing of my degree. I know now that better planning and proper researching when selecting a degree program is important when planning your education.

The strongest advice I would give would be in regard to financial aid. Too many high school seniors aren't given the full picture of what exactly financial aid means. And with secondary education being so expensive, they get "caught up" in the registration process and "whisked" through financial aid without understanding the ramification of things like "a good credit score" and "borrowing money to pay back" and "interest". I confess that when I started college the first time (after high school) - I didn't do enough research and wound up paying the price for it when I left college the first time too. It is up to the student to read and research ALL aspects of university life - ESPECIALLY financial aid. The decisions made my students entering college will affect them tremendously into their adult lives.

If I ever had the chance to go back to my senior year in high school I would tell myself these four important advices. First and foremost I would have applied for collage and scholarships when I was senio i should have never waited till I was finish with school. I waited till I school was over that was the biggest mistake I made during my senior year. When I went to apply for university this summer they were no longer taking applications. When I went to apply for scholarships I was hard finding good ones because most they are only good if you were a high school student. The second most important thing that I regret was not taking the ACT AND SAT. They affected my chance of going to my dream school. Every major collage requires that you take the ACT before entering into them. I did not take the ACT because I was afraid of failing it. The third most important thing that I would have told myself to do during my high school was to increase my grades. Fourth most important thing that would have told me was to get involved with school activates and clubs.