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If I could go back in time and give advice to my high school self, I would say, "focus on school!" Do your homework and pay attention in class. Who cares if you are poor or have a home life. If you stay in school and focus, you can go to college and then obtain a career that will allow you to live on your own. You can then travel, have fun, and gain some self confidence. Do not listen to your family and friends. They only want to hold you back and you will not realize this until they have almost ruined you during your first semester of college. You will have a difficult life because you will want to get away from these people, and you will struggle a lot due to your lack of education. Look at me now. You can be me, but at a faster pace. Keep your head down and do your work. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. Just think about yourself. I love you.....you can do this! I believe in you.

If I were to tell myself anything, it would be to go ahead and start early in getting experience in the field you want to go into. Yes, focusing on your studies is something very important and we must all make time to do that. But during our time in college, we need to take advantage of the time that we have in college to gain experience in our desired field. This is because once we come out of college, a lot of employers may be looking for a degree, but what is going to set you seperately from the rest of the others is having experience right out of college. That is going to intrigue them and may even interest them in giving you a job later on. We have the opportunity to learn hands on wherever we put ourselves and we also have the chance to mess up and learn from those mistakes. If we are to be successful out of college, I strongly encourage that anyone entering college immediately try and get some experience anywhere they can. That is the advice that I would give to myself transitioning from high school into the college stage.

Honestly, if I were able to go back in time I think I would try to back even further and tell my younger self the Power Ball numbers, or make bets and smile at all the money coming in and never worry about how much that piece of clothing costs ever again. All jokes aside, if I had the opportunity to give advice, I'd tell my younger self my present dreams and goals as if I had already achieved them. I'd tell myself that in the future I got married to the most amazing girl I had ever met. I'd tell myself that I went down a very profitable career path. I would tell myself that my family and I could not be any better and everything was absolutely perfect because I took my life into my own hands and took what I wanted. By telling myself all these things I'd be hoping that my younger self decided to take all the steps necessary in making each one of those accomplishments happen. All of this done so that hopefully I would use every last bit of potential that I had to exceed expectaions.

Assuming I had the ability to go back in time and talk with my 18-year old self, I would advise her to find a way to develop better study skills. As an above-average student, I feel that I didn't have to try very hard to achieve a 4.0 average while in high school. The one thing I feel that high school failed to prepare me for was studying. Additionally, I think I would advise her to take a long hard look at herself before moving forward with her chosen major (even take time to decide - there is a lot of pressure on high achieving high schoolers to jump right in to college after graduation). 10 years later, I have a degree that I will probably never use again and a desire to go back to school to be able to do the things that I am discovering are what I truly love to do.

The advice that I would give myself as a high school senior would be to work really hard in your last year in high school and try your hardest. I would have taken more dual credit courses in order to get more credits out of the way before I attended college. I also would have taken responsibility beforehand to save up more money for college tuition.

Go to community college first. It is much less expensive and you will learn a lot about yourself and your passion while you are there. Stay focused and go straight through school without stopping. Do not allow anything to distract you from your goals, you don't want to end up feeling like you are behind in life. Having fun is ok however, do not let fun keep you from success. Work smart, not hard. Save some of the money you earn for emergencies. Once you finish community college, keep going until you earn all the degrees you want without stopping. Do not let anything keep you from pursing your dreams to the best of your ability.

If I knew now what I knew then, I would have warned myself of the dangers of getting older. Too often i though, "I want to be a grown-up already so life will be easier." Little did I know that life doesnt necessarily get easier as you get older. I look forward to attending college, but sometimes I do wish I were a bit more prepared for life away from home. I may miss my family, but I know it will be okay. A major thing I would tell my former self is to never take your family and friends for granted and never Forget about God. No matter what, He is always with us and he always has a plan for the future. Even when things get tough, don't give up, and dont take the time you have for granted.

I would tell myself two things. First off, save up as much money as you can. College gets expensive quickly, and having a good financial foundation will help alleviate some of the stress that you will begin to feel. The second thing I would tell myself is to get over your fear of meeting new people and go do it. It will be hard at the beginning but it will pay off in the long run as you will have friends that you met freshman year. Those are the two main things I would want to go back and tell myself.

Hello SENIOR me: You might want to listen up this is kinda important! i know you thing you handle your own, but you can't. When your mom tells you that you need to study; listen to her. Take dual credit classes; make A's in them. Make A's in all your classes; YOU are smart enough! Work hard. When your mom tells you to apply for scholarships she means it! Never give up! Remember who you are. Don't let the stupid things Spencer says bother you: he's just a jerk. Always remember you are a Daughter of the ONE TRUE KING! Don't forget to go to bed early; pre-cal is your first period. Stand up for yourself. CONGRADULATIONS!!!! You are almost done! Sincerely, Your-future-(smarter)-self! P.S. Don't forget to be awesome! STUDY. WORK HARD. PRAY. YOU ARE SMARTER THAN YOU BELEIVE. P.S.S. You NEED scholarships for DBU! It's expensive!!!

First of all, you will be going to college even though you don't think so. You have to open up more to people, even though you are shy, you have to talk more. You will have an amazing roommate who is just as nerdy as you. You will survive the transition to college. It may be a little hard at first, but you will enjoy the freedom.