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Dear 16yo Fatima: I know right now you are very bussy filling job aplications, scholarships aplications, and studying for finals and the CNA test. even if you are under stress please get enough sleep. enjoy it while you can because once you get into college you can only choose two out of the three options i will give you: good grades, sleep, or work. i know by fact that you will choose good grades and work. I would also like to tell you that you do not have to waste 100 dollars in the other colleges applications, you will get into WCSU and you wont regret it. Please save that money for your future books and PAY MORE ATTENTION TO YOUR MATH and ENGLISH TEACHER! trust me dear: you need to know that info. Also: do not waste your first paychecks: save them! save money as much as you can because college books are really expensive and apply to more schoolarships! you wont get all of them and you will regret it. I would like you to be less shy too. TALK and make friends so you can enjoy college life a little bit more. sinceraly, 20yo Fatima.

College wasn’t just academic, but a total transition. In high school I forced myself to pursue future education. I knew I wasn’t ready, but pressure prevailed. I was known as an average heterosexual female, not the depressed self-starving cutter and transsexual male I was. At college I became so sick I had to move back home, transferring to a local university. I've had therapy, medication, and been hospitalized. I finally came out and transitioned. College was more than an academic change. It’s been a physical and complete life transition. I take good care of myself. I excel in school and work a part-time job. After nine-and-a-half years I’ll be graduating. I’m happy, healthy and the person I always denied. I most regret the years I wasted. If I could speak to the younger me, I would say, “Wait. Figure yourself out. Personal transition is more important than doing what everyone says. You’ll waste years of your life. You don’t have to be too proud to ask for help.” I would go back and advise myself to tell the truth, take my time and give myself a break.

My advice would be simple. In order to save money, I would have told myself to go to a community college for two years and then go to a four year college. Everyone in high school seems to almost pressure you into living on campus to get the "experience" but to me, the experience isn't worth the debt you are bringing youself into.

f I could go back in time and talk to myslef as a high school senior, I would tell myself to mentally prepare for my transition to adulthood. College life isnt easy the first year, but if you are prepared for the transition, then it will be easier to surivive your first year of college.

I have learned that the work one accomplishes in college directly relates to the work that he or she will accomplish in his or her career. It has been valuable to attend college because of this preperation, as well as the experience of having a strenuous work load.

I have tried to take a variety of classes. I have declared a major (art - illustration) and have taken a lot of art classes which have developed my artisitic skills over the past few years. But I've also taken other classes that have just interested me in order to explore. Without going to college I don't think I would have had the opportunity to explore a variety of classes, some of which I've really enjoyed, others of which I've found out that I have no interest in ever taking again!

I have learned that people everywhere are generally the same. Whether it’s visiting a college campus, in the workplace, or on a busy sidewalk; people are homogenous. Everywhere there are the same attitudes and mindsets, simply reflected with multiple opinions. More importantly, almost everyone believes that they are the center of the social universe. Beginning college, I believed that people were going to be different, they were and they weren’t. Suddenly I started opening my eyes more to other social metropolises such as the aforementioned places. Once you begin exploring any center of the universe, you see what features each have and how to act accordingly. By going to college, I have begun the path to understand all of the centers of the universe and how to behave to rise among their ranks.

I would tell myself that college is a challenge and requires 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} effort. College shapes your life and career and you can't waste something that valueable. A lot of people will try to tell you that college is just like high school and you can get by on minimum effort, but they're wrong. When you graduate college, you should want to look back at your grades and accomplishments and feel proud of yourself and want to tell everyone how well you did. If you can't do this in college, then you've missed a big part of college and the ability to feel pride for your hard work. I would also tell myself that while college is difficult, it is also manageable if you are organized and manage your time well. Sometimes you just need to breathe and take it one step at a time.

Its about the music. I could say that one sentence to myself and turn away and I would be satisfied with my messege. In my senior year, I came to a point in which I was ready to give up on my dreams of music and join the Marines. I was a signature away when my father said to wait and try one last time. My entire senior year was riddled with, do I do this, or do I do that, that I never really enjoyed it or the music. In the end, I would want to remind myself just what I'm striving to do. What I love. Through the proccess I forgot to enjoy life and stressed about things like the military and colleges. But I know now, what its really all about. To me it is music, to another it could be math, or science, but in the end its about what makes you happy.

If I were given the opportunity to go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, knowing what i now know about college life and the whole college process, I would tell myself to do exactly what I did when I was a high school senior. I wouldn't change anything in my process in getting ready for college because I am happy where I am now. I love the college I picked and the major I am pursuing. I was on top of my game when I was preparing for college, so I was always on time with deadlines and the like. The only thing I would tell myself is to be more relaxed about the whole process, because I did have a tendency to worry too much. All in all, stay on top of all deadlines and just enjoy the experience, because it is surely one that won't be forgotten.

Knowing what I now know as a nineteen year old desiring a college level education, there is an immense amount of changes I would like to recreate during my highschool experience. Growing up in a small town, where graduating high school is not the number one priority, it was difficult to take my education seriously. My learning disability, attention deficit disorder, also made me strive to maintain focus on a daily basis. However, i have learned from the wrong paths I have gone down, and now choose to stay on the path to not only increase my knowledge, but also formulate a better individual. Now, I have a concrete grounding in my beliefs, and putting my desire for a higher education at the top of all my priorities.

My main concern in high school was "what will I do for the rest of my life"? My advie to myself would be not to question it. What you want to do will change constantly. You will start off in one major and transition into another within a semester. There is no need to know what you will do with your life, all you should know is what you like. I would tell myself to volunteer more, and to thank every teacher who ever took the time to help me. What I realize now is that they helped shape me into the person I am, they took the time to advise me, and I only wish I knew how imortant that was at the time. I would tell myself to thank everyone who helps me in the most sincere way possible. I would also tell myself to not smoke, because really...the quitting process was awful. It was never worth it. Transitioning into college wasn't difficult for me, but I have learned a lot about myself throught the past few years.

If I were able to go back in time to my senior year, I would definitely give myself some advice. I would tell myself that I was making the right decision by applying to Western Connecticut State University. When I was a senior I was very unsure about going to Western because I could only be accepted into the school if I did their summer program. It was called EAP and it was a five week program that let you prove you could pass college classes. As a senior I did not want to waste my whole summer taking classes for college. It made me very stressed out my senior year. I would go back and tell myself that it would be one of the best experiences in my life. It would prepare me for college and teach me valuable lessons. I would also say I was proud of myself and to keep going strong.

Wow how did that happen? I?ve gone back in time to my high school graduation. I love my life, but it sure did not turn out the way I thought at all. So much has happened since that day. There are defiantly some things in my life that I wish had gone differently. I decided that I would leave a note in my jacket with just one simple message, ?follow your heart?. You see, at this point in my life I was getting ready to go off to college. In the beginning it didn?t matter to me how far away the schools were all I wanted to do was golf, but it was about this time when I started to wonder if I was making the right decision. I ended up going away to school for eight days before I dropped out and came back home. I walked carefully over to my jacket and placed the note in my left pocket. At that moment I woke up. Completely dressed in the clothes I was wearing from my dream. So I jump out of bed and a pen hits the floor?did I really just travel back in time?

i would have told my self to do scholarships earlier, and get 2 job and be more seriouse about saveing my money. i want to transfer to a art college from chemekata, and i want to go to LCAD and i need the high education... im a artist. but i never knew it was so much money. i wish i would have prepared my self better my senior year, by starting this whole scholarship saving prosess eirlier.

If I could go back in time as a high school senior i would tell myself to figure out really what I want to do with my life. I would figure it out as a student in high school and I would of already graduated from a college and been well on my way to a good retirment. I would not wait till i am in my mid life to figure it all out. The advice I could of gave myself is that figure it all out cindy as you could make a good life for my daughter and I and our life could be different just by making the right choices in life. There is one thing though that it is never too late to go to school to get a better education and to better ones life, and that is what I intend to do is to better my life with a degree so that i can have that perfect job with the benefits to better our life. If time was different I would of did it different and went to college right out of High School but like i said it is never too late....

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, knowing what I did now, I would not say a solitary word. The decision I have made to attend a prestigious university that promotes the best goals and values for my career path since I was a senior in high school, have been the best decision in my life thus far. I strongly believe that life is a subjective experience that should be lived within each moment to the fullest. My environment has strongly stimulated this prospect since birth, leaving my determination to guide me through life taking advantage of every positive force I could get my hands on. Although the transition from high school to higher education is argueably difficult, there is no greater enlightenment in this world than to consider that anything could happen, but to be prepared to choose the things that further you as a whole. Therefore, the sound advice I would give to my high school senior self would be nothing at all, leaving every option open.

If I could go back and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would have definitely tried to become eligible to take honors AP courses that give college credits. Therefore, i probably would have been more advanced and able to take higher courses that would have brought me steps closer to fulfilling my major requirements. I probably also would have prepared my mind mentally as well as my body physically. Once you start college, it's almost as if you are living on your own and you don't have your parents or any adults breathing down your back telling you what to do. I also would have made sure that I kept track of my diet and the certain foods that I ate. Once, I started to become more comfortable with the college life, my eating habits started to become bad and I put on a few pounds since my first year of college. The most important advice I would give myself would be to stay focused and strong even when things seem rough and I know that if i ever needed help I could always count on my family to be there to support me.

To strive to do my best in high school. I "slacked" off in freshman and sophomore year which made a big difference and showed in my transcript that was sent to the colleges that I applied to. Also take as many challenging courses in high school that you can which will help prepare and make the transition to college a little smoother. And also, don't pick a quad when rooming. Too many personality conflicts. Take it from someone who did that and learned her lesson. One roommate is plenty and more satisfying. With a total of four roommates, you get know sleep and can't focus on studies with everyone in and out of room.

If I could use a fancy time machine and go back almost 2 years ago, this is what I would say: "Listen Rich, college is nothing like high school. Guess what? You can be yourself! All of those cliques that existed in high school are minuscule in college. No matter who you are you will fit in, even the band geek that you are. At WestConn, tons of students love music just as much as you. Speaking of music, you will be a music education major right? So practice that saxophone! It's like getting you daily servings of vegetables; sometimes you might not want them, but too bad! Moving on, the professors here know the facts. They wouldn't be working at the university if they didn't! Be a sponge! Soak up all of that knowledge because it will help you when you become a teacher. Finally, you are not home anymore. You are free at last, at least for a couple months at a time! Get ready for the best times of your life, because believe me, time flies. So make the best of it, you are not going to be in college forever!"