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I would tell my younger self to cherish my highschool years and not take everything so serious. I would tell myself to not be afraid of the next step because the next four years will be the greatest of your life, you will be the best friends a person can have and you will meet your future wife. I would tell myself that the future is alot brighter than you can imagine, in 4 years you will look back and see how much you have grown, you will think of the kid that was deciding where to go to college and smile because you know that you made the right choice.

Ok Lindsay; breathe, breathe, everything will be ok. Don?t panic when things don?t go exactly how you wanted them to. Take a deep breath and everything will work out. Set away some time for studying, doing homework, and relaxing; therefore you will not let yourself get overwhelmed and stressed out. Things happen for a reason, just take responsibility for your actions. Limit your time on facebook and never play facebook games, they are so addicting. Lastly work hard and give it everything you have, because when it is over it is over and there is no going back.

There are three things I would like to tell myself as a high school senior. I would be sure to warn myself, over, and over again to be smart with my money in case of doctors appointments, gas, and food. It also would have been nice if i had started forming a college like schedule for myself, with appropriate study time, homework schedule, and what I would use my free time for instead of what I actually did; trying to balance a full time job with full time schooling. (I'd also warn myself to wait a few weeks before starting a job.) Being social is very important, finding friends, tutors, teachers, counselors and meeting with your advisor are vital things that everyone should do. As well as keeping in touch with old friends who can help you with your stressors you may have problems overcoming alone. Knowing those three key-points could have saved me a whole lot of extra work, stress, and anxieties.

Misti! It's time to grow up and get ready for a little dose of the real world. The next four years of your life will be tough, you'll seriously consider giving up. Don't. You'll change your mind a million times trying to find the right major, the truth is you'll never know for sure if it's the right choice, but it doesn't have to be! Oh yeah and please stop worrying about pleasing everyone else! It's your future use this opportunity to figure out what you want out of life, but don't forget the people who helped you get to where you are. Also remember you are only as good as the people you surround yourself with, so set the bar high and stay on track. Be involved, challenge yourself, try new things, meet new people, and make lasting relationships. Resist the temptation of Facebook, it will make you lose all track of time and distract you from homework. Lastly, I have one last word "flashdrive", back up your files because you may or may not lose an entire semesters worth of work due to your hard drive crashing.

Knowing what I know now about college life and making the transition if I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior I would tell myself to be more outgoing and not as shy. I have always been a shy person but in college you can't be shy because I have learned that too many people are. You have to be the one that talks to others first and helps the shy people come out of their shell and meet friends. I feel that it would have been a lot easier to meet friends my freshman year if I was more outgoing and not as shy. Mayville State University is a small college where you can meet a lot of people if you want to. The key is to come out of your shell and not be shy because there are a lot of people that are shy. I would tell myself to be more outgoing and help the shy people, like I once was, come out of their shells and meet lots to people to get the full college experience.

If I could go back in time to my senior year, I would tell myself that college is not what it seems like on tv. Making the transaction goes a lot further than just swiching schools. You have to emotionally prepare to be away from family, old friends, and you have to learn to adapt to a new enviroment if you are moving out of state. I would also suggest saving up money to have just incase you need it for tough times or leisure.

I would have a lot to say to my senior-in-high-school-self. One of the main topics I would advise on would be doing things for myself. College professors do not hold your hand; they may be nice and even accommodating, but they are not babysitters. They will not repeatedly remind students to hand in work, study, or even show up. As college students, we are rightly expected to be able to do things for ourselves. With that comes much more freedom; most professors treat students as adults. It is up to the students to handle that freedom with responsibility. Another topic I would talk about would be the difference between high school and college teacher's attitudes. High school teachers put up with a lot more nonsense from students than college professors do. College teachers talk to their students like they are adults. They are less likely to mince words during lecture. There is more freedom to debate, express opinions, and joke around in college classrooms. Another neat thing about college is that there are no substitute teachers; class is cancelled if the teacher cannot make it.

First of all, for some student, including me, high school seemed so easy because you could always ask the teacher everything you needed to. In college, it is much different. The teachers expect you to be so much more independent and know much more. You can't run to the teacher for every question you have. You just have to figure it out yourself. The advice that I would give myself is to do much more independent studying. Also, if I couldn't figure something out I would tell myself to try my best and not run to as the teacher about it because sometimes the college professors aren't around or even willling to answer every question a student has. Along with independent studying, a student needs to learn to not always expect a study guide for tests. In high school, almost all of my teachers gave the students study guides for all the tests, but in college none of my teachers have given us study guides. These are a few bits of advice I would give myself if i went back in time and was still a high school senior but knew what college was like.

Todd. Breathe in, breathe out. College is nothing to worry about; instead, you should be excited. Don't think of college as a scary experience. Simply think about all of the new situations you will encounter. Don?t worry about losing friends. Leaving Grand Forks will only cause you to realize who your ?real? friends are. Plus, you will meet tons of people. Don?t worry about being overwhelmed with schoolwork. Your time management skills will be put to the test, but you will pull through with your work ethic. Lastly, don?t worry about getting sleep. Actually, do worry about that. Oh well, you will sleep when you?re dead?or at least out of college.

Knowing what I know now, I would tell myself to take school more seriously. I was also a jock first then a student. I would tell myself to be a student first and then worry about sports. I went to a school right out of high school that I had no business being at only because I wanted to play football. I am still playing football and I am at a school that is more for me. I would tell myself to do more recruiting trips, more applications, and more time on my school work. I wouldn't sit around waiting for schools to contact me for sports. I would tell myself to take the initiative and go out and find a school that is more for me.