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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.