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Fill out lots of scholarship applications even if you dont think you will get any of them. Live on campus for at least one year, it is an experiance you will never forget and you will learn a lot about yourself. Connect with your professors they will help you many times throuhout your life. Make friends, take time to get involved. You will make friends that you will keep forever. Work hard your freshman year things will be much easier your junior and senior year. Take all the basic required classes you can while you are trying to decide what you want to do. Get a part time job on campus realted to your major, you will make connections that will help you tremendously. Get to know upper classmen or graduate students, they can help you with school work and choosing a career or job. They could also be your boss someday! Enjoy college it is a unique time in your life that you will never get again, meet new people, learn as much as you can, and have fun. Everyone is excited to finish but take your time and enjoy it!!

I am very happy with where I am now, so I would tell myself to do everything exactly the same. Perhaps, I would also tell myself to not worry so much about U of M

As a high school senior, I thought that, since my close friends were also going to the same university that I would always have them to lean on. However, I soon found out that we all developed our own identities and lives outside of the small town we went to high school in. If I were able to go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself to not only hold on to my friends from high school, but to branch out and make new friends. If there was one thing I learned at Michigan State that changed my life, and outlook on life, is that you have to be confident in yourself and be willing to put yourself out there to be the best you can be. My main words of advice: Make new friends, and get involved. You will meet some of the most wonderful and interesting people, and make some really great lifelong friends.

I would advice myself to not be afraid to step out of my comfort zone. Make as many friends as possible and not judge people before getting to know them. Be open and welcoming and don't be afraid to be different. And absolutely do not date someone your freshmen year. Wait. If you make a mistake, don't regret it. Know what you're doing and what you're getting into and make a mature, sensible decision. Be honst with yourself and with others. It is all about being who you are. Explore and accept. Learn. Be outgoing but prioritize your life. Time will teach. Don't be afraid to try new things. Life is about experiments. Get out there and do what you need to do. Survive.

I would tell myself to explore more in high school, college allows you to explore, but you are paying more for it. Knowing what you want to be when you are older is not the goal of high school, but having a relative idea would put you into a better path in college. It will take the unecessary classes out of the way, if you already know you do not want to go into a specific field, you will not pay mone to discover you do not like a certain topic.

Make sure that you take the classes that are required, and remember to be motivated in them. The other classes that you are interested in are important also so you must find ways to attend them as well. Do Not be afraid to exploit the university as they will be exploiting you. Just be yourself, that is the simplest way to being happy and joyous when life gets hard and tedious. Keep up with schoolwork andfund a part time job right away so you can make rent and have extra spending money. But all-in-all make sure that you protect your heart, many people will try to steal it from you.

I would say take more Avanced Placement Classes. The ones I did take helped me out a lot. I would also say keep better study habits. In high school, I never had to study because everything came easy. But now, I stay 23 hours a week.

Don't just join everything; join one or two meaningful organizations and really further their causes. Become an officer right away. Make a budget and actually stick to it. Spend time getting to know professors -- letters of recommendation are much more meaningful that way.

Get over yourself. I came from a small high school, so it was easy to be smart - I was the proverbial "big fish in the little pond." The transition to MSU was very humbling. Being a music major, especially, hit me pretty hard. I was one of the best trumpet players in the county as a high school-er, but when I started attending studio class at MSU I quickly fell to the bottom of the pack. For the first time in my academic career I had to work hard and actually do my homework. It took me awhile to really discover an effective way to manage my time. I ended up failing a class because I thought it was too easy for me. Now, as I'm starting to see all the financial repercussions of attending college, I wish I could go back and apply myself more, and get a passing grade in that class. I still consider myself an intelligent person, but I have a lot more perspective now. And that's a good thing.

I would tell myself to buckle down my Freshman year so I didn't have to deal with trying to raise my GPA so I could transfer to MSU. I would also tell myself that I wasn't going to enjoy my choice of major the first time around and to not waste my time with the classes. I would really press the photography and tell myself to go with my gut feeling and get into it.