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Dear High School Gianna, I am writing to you from the year 2015, we've just finished our freshman year at William Woods and it was incredible. I would just like to write to you and give you a few tips to help you finish out your senior year of high school. First, do not let Mrs. Diaz wait to give you your last math class until the last minute or else you will be cramming it in up until your last days in San Diego. Second, STUDY STUDY STUDY for your SAT's and ACT's. Third, start applying for scholarships as soon as you finish reading this letter. Fourth, record your riding video before February so that you can apply for the WWU equestrian scholarship. Fifth, stay with the right people through the whole year, you will figure out who your true friends are. Just trust me on all of this, I promise that you won't regret it. Sincerely, College Gianna

Finish the first time around!!! College does not get easier later in life. If anything, it gets harder once you have children, a house and your own real bills! And, some of those classes/credits you got the first time may not transfer or might "expire". There are more scholarships available to students going straight from high school into college than there are for adults going back to school. In this economy, you can not make it financially with out a college degree. You don't have to know what you want to do for the rest of your life, right now. Just get a degree! It will pay off later on down the road. In the future when you are financially stable, you can always go back to school and earn another degree in a totally different field!

If I could go back and talk to myself as a hight school senior this is what I would say. Minnie I know you can't see it right now but you are worth more and capable of more than what you think.I know people have told youa all your life that you are and will be nothing, but that's not true! You can do anything you put your mind to, don't let other people's decisions dictate who you become. just because you come from nothing doesn't mean that's who you are. You have the power to change things. So do better fight harder and do't let your life slip away.

I would ask my former self to explain to me why I want to go to college. Next I would explain to myself that if my only reason for going to college is to move out of my mother house, then I should not waste my time. I would ask myself another question, why is education important to you based on what you see in you neigborhood. I would explain to myself that the world is so much bigger than this and that will the right education you can experience it all. I give myself an assignment. I would ask myself to find 10 people in our neigborhood that completed college and ask them "why did you want to go to college". Than I would tell my former self to attend a college tours to Baurch College and ask 10 students the same question "why did you want to go to college". I would than ask myself to explain to me why I want to go to college. I could not find 1 people from my neigborhood that completed college. The students from Baurch and the people in my communtiy both agreed that education is the key to success.

As a sophmore , it is crazy to think that I am almost half way through with my undergraduate career. The most important thing that I have gained from my experiences as a college student is the ability to lead. I have learned that leading is often stepping up to do the job that others are unwilling to do, but even more often it is standing back and providing the support and the push that others require to succeed.

What I have gotten out of my college experience is that an education is very much need to make it in the world today. iIt has been so valuable to attend college because this is preping me for my future and what it is that I will be dong for the remainder of my life.

There is no way for me to ever put into 200 words the significance of my college experience. I grew up in a wealthy home and had almost everything handed to me. During my sophomore year in college, my family stopped supporting me and my education due to their disagreement of my homosexual lifestyle. From the summer of 2008 to now, I have struggled to try to continue my education and still continue to be a collegiate athlete. The 2010-2011 school year will be my senior year and i would hope to graduate next May. I am currently unable to get student loans and my athletic scholarhip will not cover all of this years expenses so I am hoping that there is a scholarhip out there to help students like me. My college experiences both as an athlete and as a student has made me the person that I am today. I learned the true meaning of hard work and what it means not to give up on something that you started. Its taught me that the proccess of learning is never really over and that life is exactly that; a process.

If I could go back, the advice that I would give myself is to relax. I needed to enjoy my final year as a kid more, and trust that I would be okay. I fretted for months, waking up from dreams about being forty years old and still living with my parents. If I knew what I know now, I might have breathed a little easier and taken in more of what I had at the time. I might tell myself to search for and apply to more scholarships, and to be a little more diligent about deadlines (procrastination has always been my ally, in a frenemy sort of way). I would also have told myself to save a little more of my paychecks. Dining hall food gets old really fast, and eating out it expensive! I realize now that college isn't scary, it's different and it's new, but it is a chapter in my life that will make all the difference in the world in how I approach and manage the rest of my life.

I would tell myself to apply to more scholarships and be more career focused. although I did recieve scholarships I wish I would have recieved more so that my loan amounts werent so high. I would also mentally prepare myself more, i told myself that I was ready and didn't worry about moving until I got there. I was a mess! i told my mom to take me home and that I didnt wanna go to school anymore. I do believe that the college that I attend made it easier for me to adjust with all of the socalization events that they held.

In order to get exactly what you want out of your college career you need to stay organized, focused and happy. I personally am fitting my four year degree in three years because thats what I wanted to get out of school. When you are here in school, be detirmined to achieve the goals and dreams you want. Work hard to get as much out of beinging in school as you possibly can, that way when you leave school you did everything you could to be the best possible person you could be. When you are here in school and you've worked as hard as you possibly can, you will be able to look back on school when you are done and be able to know that you had a great time while you were here and you worked hard to get where you are.