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If I could send my high school self a message, it would be this: Do not freak out about what to do with your life. You like writing. Major in Media and Communication Studies at UW Bothell, and minor in Creative Writing. Get involved with UWave Radio in your freshman year, or junior if you end up transferring, and have fun. Learn to talk in a British accent and mess with your classmates. Make friends, but dont forget the few from high shcool who are life-long friends like Niki and Sarah Q. Help your sister find out what she wants to do. Finally, when in doubt, pray about it.

I would advise myself to be better with the time menagement. Prepare myslef to make sacrifices. Utilize help better, like getting help when I need it and leaving the pride behind. Get course books several weeks before the shool starts. Don't give up on fitness! I would encourage myself to sleep more and get nutritios healthy snacks. I would strongly advice myself to be more understandable and forgiving during the times of high pressure toward family and friends. I would suggest myself to limit the amount of working hours, and consider ahead of time for possible hardships. And most definite, I should promote Positive Thinking! It is the key to psychological/physical health and success!

If I could go back in time, I would work a lot harder at my grades in high school. I would change my priorities to where they should be so that when the day came to apply to my dream college, I would get accepted.I would tell myself to be prepared for what is yet to come within my own family and our struggles. The University of Washington Seattle was for me like many others, my dream school. I was not accepted and am ashamed to this day that I could not carry on my brother’s legacy. I so badly wanted to be a part of the dawg family that I settled for the University of Washington Bothell campus. I would remind myself to dream young, because sometimes when you’re older it is already too late. I should have looked deeper into other schools before settling. So to the scared little freshmen in high school me there is only one thing I can say; your journey to your dream begins when you walk through those doors. Do it right or you will end up living in regret like me.

When I was a high school senior, I didn't have much direction. I knew I wanted to go to UW Bothell, but I didn't know much beyond that. I certainly wasn't ambitious. When I got to UW Bothell, I changed. I took the school by storm. My advisor once told me that coming to UW Bothell was like being a big fish in a small pond, and that proved to be true. I'm only a freshman and I am being published in two on campus publications, and one thing being published is a science fiction short story I wrote! If I could give my high school senior self some advice, I would tell her "Stop stressing out! Good things will come to you if you work hard. Believe in yourself for a change. You're incredibly talented and soon other people will begin to notice, you just need some confidence."

In college you will find your way. Even though you don't have a lot of support now, things will get better. In college you can pick your classes and join groups that relate to you. I know it's hard to believe, but you have the option to become a student leader. Your percieved flaws will be cherished and get you far. Being different is valued because you have a different perspective on things. Don't give up because there is space for you to excel, all you have to do is try! Find your passion and get involed with it early on campus. It will lead to campus jobs and connections to organzitions you've dreamed of working with. You'll be in full control.

Hey, I know right now it seems likes everything is crashing down. Trust me, it will pass. I need you to know that all your hard work is going to pay off. You're going to graduate with astounding grades and get into college. It's not going to be an easy road, but you are more than capable of accomplishing great things. Please remember not to stress over boys. You will get your heart broken but it will only make you stronger and wiser. Don't let yourself grow up too fast; go on an adventure and laugh everyday. You will lose friends, this I can guarantee. However, you will turn out to be a better person and the friends you end up with will be friends for life. Take your academics seriously but don't stress yourself out. Avoid the people who create negative energy. Surround yourself with people who are going to encourage you to be a better person. Always be polite and don't say anything if it's not kind. But most importantly, keep your family and friends close and just enjoy the time you have as a kid.

Going back in time would be a great experience. I would tell myself to take advantage of every little opportunity that comes to my way. Another thing would be to take as many college classes as posible because if you take college classes in High school that is alot of many saved.

The advice I would give to myself if I could go back in time would be to take courses that would help me if I am planning on attending college. Not only is the senior year of high school important, but the junior year is just as important. If a student knows what subject they are weak in, tutoring should be applied. This is the best way to ensure success.

To be honest, I think about this question a lot now that I am in college. I did not have trouble getting into college, the application process, or even settling in when I got here. The thing that is worrying me is money to pay for college and support myself. If I could give advice to my high school self, it would be to get a lot more help in getting scholarships and look for more opportunities to earn money. I never asked for help in high school to find money, and that was a mistake. I would urge myself to look beyond my pride and ask for help, and spend time with counselors and teachers finding and completing scholarships. School is important, but adapting to another environment is not as hard as suddenly being loaded with monetary responsibilities, rent, groceries, and tuition all at once. In order to learn you have to be financially secure, so I would just push past me to strive to get as much money as possible and ask adults for help.

Read all the assigned readings, because they'll really add up by the end of the quarter. This also is saying to not procrastinate. Also, getting to know people who are in your academic program is helpful when time comes for studying for midterms and finals, because getting along with others easier.

Talk to as many professionals in the fields that interest you as possible. Find out what it really means to do the work you aspire to do. Visit the schools that you want to attend and pay attention to; faculty, housing, layout, and extracurricular activities . Find out what types of support they give their students and investigate their graduation rate. Consider attending a community college for the first two years and transfer to a larger university, this will ease your transition and give you time to refine your major area of study. Realize that you will be the designer and director of your own educational experience. No bell will ring when it's time to go to class, you will have to motivate yourself to achieve your goals.

Work hard and time will allow you to have fun. Dont sweat the small stuff - the best is yet to come. All that you are doing now will pay off when you reach your dreams and goals of becoming great. College is like a job- you work hard, focus and do your best and positive things will be achieved.

Advice I would give my past self about college life and making the transition into it is, 'although it is frightening like you had imagined it in the first place, it is very well worth it. College is truly a liberating and extroadinary experience; liberating in that a lot more freedom and responsibility is given to you, and extroadinary in that it is something to take in in your every breathing moment and to not take for granted. You learn more ways to adjust your life accordingly to real life situations such classes, socials, jobs, internships given by administrators or professors, projects built and geered by you, studying, abroad programs, etc. College is also, by personal opinion, the ideal and best place for classes, where everyone in the entire classroom sincerely cares about the subject and do not want to jeopordize their education with usual high school predicaments where someone is being loud and obnoxious. And however tedious the transition to college may seem, you will be happy and grateful to have endured it to embark on a new life, even a rebirth. Keep yourself up to date and do not procrastinate (as much.)'

Talk to more adults about their college experiences; learn as much as you can from those around you before choosing which schools to apply to. Do everything in your power to travel abroad when in college. Make deep connections with quality people, because you will maintain those friendships forever. Learn new languages and use them; make friends with people who speak French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish. Read even more poetry! And, write. Write like you'll never have that much time to think and write again, because you won't.

The advice that I would give myself is to meet with my advisor early on. They are here to help and make the transition easier and can advice what classes you should take once you know what you plan to major in. The advisors also know the ins and outs of financial help/aid and can direct you to what scholarships you should look into. Because they are aware that college is costly, and that not everyone has a college fund set up for them. The advisors work with students all the time, and know how to assist and make things clearer that you are confused about. Meeting with my advisors would have saved me a lot of time and stress had I just gone to them earlier and asked all the questions that I needed answered.

Life is precious and we should all appreciate the importance of growing up an facing unfortunate events that make us who we are; in the path of finding our-selfs. I as a leukemia survivor I believe knowing what I know now it would not change anything because what I underwent portrayed a potential career as a Registered Nurse. A registered nurse accommodates me personally not because of it is a high demand, but because the potentiality to help others. It was a hard challenging period for me and my family especially because I was only thirteen years old--it sculpted me to peruse greater things in life cause life does not end for unfortunate events that head my way it makes the person even stronger. My family was a great help and as Plato quoted “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

Don't go to school right away. You need to work more and wait out a bit. If you wait three years you will find out that the economy will fall and going to school without knowing what to really do is not good for you. Take your time and invest some of your time at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, either taking classes at or after 2006 or 2007 so you don't miss the chance to meet your future wife. Also, don't go into English, it sounds like its a positive field, but it isn't. You should learn by now that if you apply your self, you can achieve an (A) in any class. You should go into the Medical Field and not give up. Math will be difficult at first, but as it stands now, you have a 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} in college algebra and you got a B+ in Statistics. Math isn't something that will be difficult for you. Keep trying harder and harder and one day you would have become something great by 2011, instead your just starting to become something great in 2011.

Given the opportunity to go back, I would tell myself what college and the community around me is going to be like. College is full of a lot of things that can easily distract you. The community that surrounds you is there to help you whether it is with your studies or help you plan your schedule, it is there to help make your college life a little bit easier. The best way to build a network is to connect with your professors. To do that, you need talk to them and let them know what you want to major in and ask how their class can help you get closer. Ask your professor about internships or if they have a program of their own, how you can help them and reach your goals. The other part of the community is your classmates. Having a good connection with your classmates is also important, with them you can form study groups, socialize and support each other. The last thing I would mention is college is hard work but it is also fun. The best way to make your college life easy is to get involved and never give up.

To work harder. When I was in high school, I knew that I was going into the military, so I didn't push myself hard enough. If I could give myself advice it would be to never slack off and always push myself to be better!

I have discovered hardships demonstrate candidness of a person. As first generation Filipino, I have learned that hardships which might stall another man's progress in life are an accepted norm in my family. It has been my experience that it through hardship that one discovers their strengths. May it be a personal goal, a family matter, or a strained relationship, we still want the premise behind it to flourish. Some don’t happen, a few become progressively worse, but this hardship teaches and instill a confidence that is refined as we grow. Sometimes, the failed result is needed. But the premise is same and it needs to flourish. Hardships are the tools needed to pierce ignorance in our youth, to strengthen our convictions, and to define our character. Simply put, the girl that I will marry within the year after undergraduate school shared a quote her father instructed to tell me, "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Yes, the words are taken from the renowned sage, Confucius. The enormity of this quote begs anything is possible. From winter I’ve walked to spring. This is good.