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Hello me, the most important thing I can tell you is to get your work done early. The longer you wait to begin working hard, the more difficult it will be to get ahead. While it is absolutely possible to slack off in high school and still be successful, it will be more than worth it in the long run to put the effort in early. Spending an hour a night polishing up knowledge accumulated in classes directly correlates to better grades; exceptional high school grades provide a broad spectrum of possibilities. Being a model high school student demonstrates a level of maturity that others revere; colleges, future employers, and organizations providing scholarships will all favor you more highly the better your scores are. I am spending a lot of money trying to receive our accounting degree; please make it easier on me by fooling around less and focusing on academic progress more. Thanks, and enjoy your last year of high school - we will never get to go back.

Keep on applying for scholarships. Continue staying on top of things, keep working hard, keep educating yourself. The more you work on learning more and becoming a better student, the better off you will be not only in college, but for the rest of your life.

If I could talk to my high school self, I would tell him that all the stress and fear he had about college is unnecessary. I would direct him to talk to the faculty with the assurance that they would lend an ear to his concerns. He was very concerned that the professors would be unapproachable, but I scarcely met a professor I did not adore. Likewise, the administration themselves are more than happy to lend you a hand. Even the Provost of the campus I was on was willing to stop his day just to help an inquisitive student. Next, I would advise him to engage himself in the school through the clubs as soon as possible. He was shy and had doubts about his ability to be a part of any club or student government activity. But the people in the clubs are often exceedingly friendly and as passionate about school as you are. As a result, they are often more than willing to help you study or work on a project with you. I hesitated my first semester to get involved, but I found it an exciting, building, and downright fun experience when I finally did!

If I could go back in time and give advice to my high school self, the best advice I would have to give is to take school and yourself more seriously. Throughout my entire high school experience teachers, parents and guidance counselours spent countless lectures preaching to us about the importance of college, and I like many students my age, kind of blew it off as no big deal. I mean how hard could it possibly be? Well the reality is I was living in a fantasy thinking things would just fall into place for me like they always have. I shouldv'e paid more attention when annoucements were being made about scholarship opprotunities and I should have actually made more of an effort to do better in school, instead of relying on just skating by. The truth is I had no confidence in myself. I always thought "Oh well I'm not smart enough for that" "Or I'm not a good enough writer to have any chance of winning." Now that I'm in college I know how hard it is money-wise. If I had just given myself a chance, things could be a little easier now.

The advice I would give myself is do all you can to achieve better in life. Take any extra classes, apply for scholarships that you going to need the money in the future in order to help pay for your classes in college especially when you are financially unable. Enjoy your senior year the positive way. Don't let anyone peer pressure you to do something you would later regret doing in the future and look back and have that on your record because its not worth it. Make sure all your grades is in order and don't let them slip for anything because that is what is going to get you accepted in the college of your choice and not what your stuck with. Having friends is nice but not as important as your school work and graduating. Check out colleges and make sure you making the right decisions in anything you decided to do or go with because its your life and no one should tell you how to live it.

Jumping in the delorean and revving to 80mph! I would land in the summer of 2008 and tell myself to get my bottom in gear. It might sound something like this, were I talking to myself? ?Top priority is applying for every scholarship that you possibly can get your hands on. Accumulating enough money early in the year would make for a very happy home life as well as more colleges to consider later. Mom and Dad will be thrilled; believe me. Now, applying for your top choice schools EARLY is next in line.? I would be hesitant to admit my mistakes, but would fess up eventually. ?The distinct lack of money and not paying attention to detail was our downfall into community college, so you better make yourself pay attention to opportunities for free money and the deadlines for Universities as well as your high school assignments.? I also would throw in other important tidbits. ?Trust me, you do NOT want to spend the next year and a half living at home! Find the money to go to your dream college; because if you don?t, you will end up settling for a state school.? Back to 2010, Doc!

If I encountered my younger self, I wouldn?t hesitate to verbalize the accrued wisdom of this demanding reality. ?Your potential is being wasted by your reluctance to apply yourself. Entry into college isn?t like winning the lottery. You cannot rely on sheer luck to lead you towards that degree. If you want the moon, don?t settle for the stars. Don?t sit idle as you allow your course to be crafted by the hands of fortune. Write your own destiny. Forget the thrill of living as an adult; Relish your youth! Cast aside the fantasies of making it on your own, and savor the awkward stage between adolescence and adulthood. Take your college placement test and achieve that high score. Don?t study at a local community college for the sake of convenience when your potential for achievement soars beyond the confines of that educationally limited institute. You will fall short of your academic ability and the path before you, which was paved, will be buried under the debris of your mistakes and disregard. Go to a state university, and immerse yourself in an education that even I, four years wiser, perceived as just beyond my reach.?

I would tell myself to follow my dreams. So many people go off to a 4 year college without knowing what they want to do with their lives and end up taking multiple electives trying to find out what it is they are passionate about. I would tell myself to find what I am passionate about, and it will come eventually, and then decide what I want to do. I would not give myself any type of advice that would dramatically change my path since high school because I like what I?ve gone through and how I turned out. Ok, well maybe I don?t like what I?ve gone through but it still has made me the person I am today and I wouldn?t change that for the world.

Assuming I could talk to myself as a high school senior, I would have told myself to make more of an effort to finish a foriegn language class, so that I could have the Bright Futures Scholarship. Working your way through college is difficult. It is hard to find study time and it's stressful. Being tired all the time makes you feel less motivated, and it makes it difficult to pay attention in your classes. If I had just made that extra effort to finish up a second year of spanish, I wouldn't have been in that situation. I would have recieved Bright Futures and having that scholarship would have made my transition to college a whole lot easier.

Well my high school senior self is basically what my current self is. But being logical and rational the first thing I would do, after explaining to past me how I came back in time, is tell my past self about what a pain the application process is going to be consider that all the offices that I talk to don't seem to talk to each other. That would be all I would tell, as I wouldn't want to disrupt the space and time. My mentality hasn't changed since then, I have always been very mature for my age so its not like I was wild a year ago but I have changed today.