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The most influential time in my life was actually when I was a freshman in college. Prior to this, my High School education prepared me fairly well to succeed in my undergraduate education. I earned an academic scholarship due to my High School GPA. Everything was going well until my father passed away. My father was the biggest proponent in supporting me going to college. My mother, on the other hand, was unsupportative of my attempt to earn a degree. In fact, when applying for my sophomore year FAFSA, my mother was adamently unwilling to complete the required form. Because of this, there was nothing I could do in order to finish the FAFSA, and subsequently had to drop out. This significantly derailed my academic progress, and it took me 3 years to get back into school. Overall, I would not tell my high school senior self anything; rather, I would tell my freshman college self to be persistant in my attempts to persude my mother to fill out FAFSA. I believe with the experiences I have acquired over the past 3 years I would have a significant story to tell to convince my mother the importance of higher education.

If I could go back as a Highschool senior I would tell myself appreaciate what you have now. From the friends to the teachers to the lunchroom food. I think now that I am attending college I realize that Highschool was actually ok! I would tell myself to enjoy the time I have there not to complain about anything but to enjoy the ride!

First semester is the worst. If you struggle, don?t worry, next semester you will know how to handle this new environment better. Don?t skip meals or sleep. There are some things that it is best to do with out in college but your health is not one of them! Keep a date book and a calender in your room with all of your class assignment in it and look at it every day. If you are having trouble, tell your instructor. They may know of something that could help you. Don?t turn your nose up at tutoring. It may help more than you know. Wait to get your books until the first day of class. Ask your teacher which books your really need and if an older edition would do. Buy all of your books online! I suggest half.com. Then sell them back online. You will save so much money that way. If you need a book before it comes in the mail, ask one of the other students if you can share theirs until yours comes or see if the library has one you can use there. Relax and have some fun along the way.

Hey idiot, don't wait for ten years after high school to go to college! Although twenty dollars an hour sounds like a huge amount of money for someone who just graduated, you will not be happy for long. There is no satisfaction from breaking your back for long hours on mind-numbing tedious tasks. You will not be content unless you go to school, and get a career where you can utilize and expand your mental talents. Go to college!

First of all, I would tell myself to investigate into better birth control if I'm going to be serious about college at this point in my life. I would also tell myself to take my studies a little more seriously, and stay focused. I would have to tell myself to not be afraid of what the future holds, that in the end it will make me all the more stronger for it.

There is not much that I could really tell myself, that as a high school senior, I didn?t already know. Truly, there is only one thing I would tell myself and that is to listen. Wise up and realize that all those years of teachers saying ?you need to go to college? were right. It is the best thing you will ever do. You can make something of yourself. All it takes is to wise up and do it! Take that chance and come out on top. Forget what you think you know and go for it. It will be one of the best things you?ve ever done! Your dream will come true if only you would set out in faith.

I am aware of a couple of Country songs that give advice to the "teenage self" that might cover this subject, but I will put it in my own words! Take it slow, enjoy this time in High School, ask a lot of questions and don't feel like because you are a teenager that your voice doesn't make a difference. Know that College can be the most fun you have ever had, but it will take a disipline that you didn't require in high school. You get to make the choices, you will get to know yourself and your strengths. Your senior year is about becoming an adult, acting like one and forming relationships with your teachers, parents and friends that could last a lifetime. But the important advice that I would give myself would be, Go To College! It is different, better and it will change your life forever!

just stick through the hard times. I felt it was very easy for me to not want to go to school knowing there was no-one that made me attend and go when i was supposed to. I would tell myself to not worry about who i was hanging out with after school and worry more on what i was going to focus my projects on. Ide tell myself to get into more clubs or activities that would benefit others and not myself. I would also tell myself to take pleasure in going to school knowing there are many people all over the world that would love to have the opportunity to go to a school. Lastly i would tell myself to live high school up, because once you graduate and its gone you really realize how much you loved it and how much youll miss it .

I would convince myself that i still needed to take school seriously. Just because it's the last year of school doesn't mean that you can't screw it up in that last year. College isn't all about partying and meeting frat guys either, you need to focus on your classes and you can't be doing that if your always planning the socail events. Still relax and have fun, take a deep breath look around you at all your friends and just enjoy life. After all this is the best time of your life.

Throughout my high school career I was not advice me the things I needed to do. My parents work so much and were never there to advice me what decisions to take. I was a fifteen year old trying to figure out what classes to take to help me in the career I wanted to achieve. I am now a freshman in college and I can see I needed to do so many more things. If I could advice myself when I was in high school, with the things I know now, I would make sure that I take the right classes. I want to be a Radiologist, and to accomplish that, I needed to take classes that would help my career. In the high school that I attended, there was a dual credit classes. I was in advanced classes but I was not told I had that option of taking dual credit classes. I would also advice myself to investigate the different schools and the things they have to offer, and to keep getting good grades. The clubs and organizations that I was in were very good and the people who guided them thought me many things.