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Now that I passed high school and currently a college student I would recommend not to lay it off because those four high years pass like in a blink. Keep good grades and apply for scholarships right away. I would advice myself not to give up. My family is low income which is makes it harder, but with effort everything is possible. Even if you didn't do well with my high school grades you should never give up on education. Get your grades up and accomplish all your goals.

HONEST NITTY GRITTY101: Advice to my high school self would be: do your best in your studies, get involved in the community, keep contact with friends and family and APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS! As far as college life now, nothing has really changed from that which takes place at the high school campus; you have your same clubs, cliches, and maybe even food. However on thing that has changed is MONEY! The need for cash in oder to pay for your tuition, books, supplies, etc. You didnt't have to worry about that in high school because it was provided (italicized). If anything, some things I regret not doing in high school was that listed above at the beginning of this paragraph. If you want to remain mentally, emotionally, and physically stable throughout highschool and college--follow this advice: do your best in your studies, get involved in the community, keep contact with friends and family and APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS!

Please do not be afraid have the courage to take a chance. Do not be afraid to fail in college because you are smart enough to make it. Do not lose your focus because your chance to succeed can slip away.

Whether with a plan or not, changes will occur. The reality from changing a class to changing a major. Yet in order to be more prepared then I am now, I would stress the importance of starting to build up scholarship funds. Everything else I'll leave out, to keep the experience of college life true.

Only if I really could go back. The transition from highschool to college was very difficult for me. I was not an academically goal oriented student throughout my highschool years. Didn't have someone to push me as I wish they did now. Being a son of a single mom and a big brother gave me a lot of other responsibilities. Not knowing what I wanted to do for the rest of my life did not help in why I was going to college. All I thought about was basketball; I loved the sport so much, that school didn't really come as a priority to me in life. I loved college because of how the professor's did not care what so ever as to if I went to class or not. I still had that high school attitude. The day it hit me is when I hurt my knee playing basketball, which made me see things a lot different than I did in highschool. Started out college with a 2.2 GPA and am now at a 2.98 GPA majoring in engineering, transferring to the University of Arizona this August, and working as an engineering intern.

Dear Self, You might be shocked to be hearing from your future self but you are one lucky girl. You get the opportunity to learn from your mistakes before you make them. Please listen carefully to what I am about to tell you. It could alter the course of your future in an incredibly rewarding way. Don?t get me wrong, every trial you face builds your character but I am hoping that by following my advice you will face different challenges that will shorten your time to success. First, I strongly advise you to ignore the hormones screaming at you. Intimate relationships can wait and statistically you will have a stronger chance of survival. Besides that, you won?t have time for loneliness and don?t need distractions because I want you to know now that college is NOT out of reach for you. No one has informed you about this but there are so many unused scholarships out there just waiting to be won by you. They may not always be easy to find but it is worth the hunt. Start with the library, college advisors and the internet. Start hunting and keep your eye on the prize!

Plan for your future. Even if you have good grades and are in the top percent of your class, you need to be active in planning for the road ahead. Apply to many schools. Apply for every scholarship. It's okay if you aren't sure what you want to do with your life, it will come to you. In the mean time, explore different careers. Your professors in college will treat you as an adult. They won' be reminding you of deadlines and you won't get any sympathy or slack if you fall behind as a result of your own carelessness. Now is the time to take charge of your own education. Learn anything someone is willing to teach you. Learn patience. Learn how to budget. Set goals for yourself and write them down. Look at those goals when you aren't happy with the struggles you are facing to get them. Even if it takes you a little longer than some, you will get to where you want to be, and all of this will be worth it.

If I could go back in time to advise how to go throughout my four years in high school, I would mention two main decisions I should make. The first point would be that I should focus on taking honor classes. At the time, I entered into high school with one honor class, Algebra I Honors. Instead of taking regular English and regular sciences, I should have talked to the counselor so that I could enroll in those classes. The honor program fell, but the main focus for the honor classes would be to try to get into AP classes my senior year to increase my GPA. The second advice would be to demand to be placed in Calculus AP without taking my second summer session at Arizona Western College. My sophomore summer, I took Precalculus at the college, which was enough to skip geometry, but my counselor convinced me to stay in that class and take one more summer session of math to get into Calculus. I did so, but it was a horrible mistake, becuase I had forgotten all the topics covered last summer and did poorly that summer. I only just wish I could go back.

Don't be scared to be yourself when you get to college. I made the mistake of slacking off a little my last semester of high school. I would want to go back to the very first day of my senior year and tell myself to pretend like this is any other year. I didnt get to go to a big State University like my friends did who got into Florida State, University of Miami and the University of Florida because that last semester I felt like I was done and it didn't matter if I did as god as my other years of school. I remember I was scared that I wouldn't make it to college like everyone else in my family and I puit myself down that last semester. The best advice to myself would have been this, hold on a little long and you will be successfull, you will get the chance at college. Be yourself when you get there, trust me they are going to love you in college, just be honest to yourself about what you want in life.

I would tell myself to concentrate on the two most important things which are school and keeping a balance with everything that will be juggled as I go through the experience. I would tell myself to relax, because college is an experience unlike any other. You find yourself as an individual, but also we can lose ourselves in some of the lifestyles. But most of all be patient because no matter how fast we go we need to slow down to go faster.