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Play sports and participate in as many school functions as you can. Take pride in your school. Do not care what people think or have to say about you. Just live your high school life to the fullest.

Make quicker decisions. Dont be afraid of what the future will hold. Being afraid of failing to make the right decisions to bring me happyness is something everyone is troubled with. The worst that can happen is you are not happy so you change the situation. Procrastination is the downfall to society. It is the same as being cronically lazy. Life is too short to keep putting things off.

I would tell myself to get involved right when I get to campus. I spent a lot of my freshman year in my dorm, taking time only to do my homework. If you want to be happy away from home, you need to get involved and make friends. Though you need to keep focus on your work, you can't go through life without any friends. Take time and do something fun for yourself.

There are many questions that preoccupy a high school student: what sports to play, what to wear to prom? But when you reach your senior year there will be one question on everyone’s minds: What college are you going to? Don’t worry! You can answer this question confidently. START PREPARING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL: The earlier you start preparing yourself for college, the better. That includes not only searching for good colleges and universities to attend, but also keeping up with school work and getting good grades. SCHEDULE SMART: Scheduling that first freshman year is a milestone in everyone’s life, but it is also very important. Make sure you take those college prep classes, so by your senior year you can take advanced placement classes and possibly earn college credit. THE TOP FIVE: By your senior year of high school, you should have the top five schools you’d like to possibly attend. Make sure that you apply by the early decision, to increase your chance of scholarship money! This may be cliché but enjoy the ride!! It is more fun than you may think.

I would tell myself to fill out more scholarship applications, take school more seriously and work on my study habits. I had been so used to not studying and doing fine in school that when I moved, I experienced a total culture shock. I stayed in my room, didn't socialize and stopped myself from finding a support system. I would plead with myself and hope that I make wiser decisions the second time around.

The best advice I could give to my high school self would be to stay out of drama, and concentrate on studies. Drama does not carry over to college where people hardly know each other. It will only last for short periods and then new drama will begin again. All of it is unimportant after a certain amount of time, and I have realized this after going to college. In high school, it was about who broke up with who, or who talked back to the teacher. Down the road none of that is important. The important thing is what you take from your time in high school and how you can use it later in life. Stay away from writing those notes in math and pay attention to what the teacher is saying, so you will be able to skip pre calculus in college. Drama will not prepare you for the real world, but hard work and paying attention in class will help get you ready for what is to come. Stay focused and always accept the blame for failures because maybe if you put in that extra hour to study you will be first in your class.

Dear Alex, To start off congradulations on graduating high school. When you start your first year at Mount San Antonio, I do advise that you go and take all your assessment test for math and English. Please take the calculus part for the math, so you don't have to take statistics. I would also recommend that you take more General Education classes for your first semester and not worry about music, because you will not be accepted into this class. Take a foreign language instead. Be sure to do all the homework, classwork, study, and ask for as much help as possible. When taking a math class, please be sure to look for Tomayo or Perez as a math instructor, and Enke for a English professor. I seriously hope that this will help you in your future at Mount San Antonio, and I wish you the best of luck. Sincerely, Your Future Self Alex.

If i went back in time i would inform myself about a lot of stressed filled situations that could have been avoided. I would tell myself to make sure college and transitional processes were done in a timely fashion. This includes meeting all deadline. I would let him know that getting funding for college is not that easy. So apply for scholarships and grants, lots of them.

Don't pack so much stuff, and learn how to study, even though you've never had to before. See your advisor about everything, even with questions about clubs. Get to know those around you more, the bigger the family, the easier it is for everyone to help each other when the going gets tough. Follow your gut and just go with psychology, it's been what you've been good at all along. Don't go with architecture just because it's hard to get into and feeds your ego.