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The advice that I would give myself is to work on obtaining a 4.0 GPA, 22 or higher ACT score and take academics as serious as I can. While my GPA was not low it could have been better. The better your test scores and GPA the more money and scholarships you will recive which means less money out of your pocket and apply for more scholorships!

I have been out of high school for almost seven months and still have not entered college. If I could go back to the beginning of my senior year and give myself some advice, I don’t think I could stress how important it is to not be afraid; afraid of change, responsibility, meeting new people, growing up and getting on with life after high school. Honestly, I would also tell myself to grow up and quit slacking. Things will not just magically fall into place just because I want them to. Scholarships needed to be filled out, college visits should have been planned, and other steps should have been taken to ensure I was prepared to start what was supposed to be the next chapter of my life. I cannot change what I did, or rather what I didn’t do in my senior year, but it’s not too late for me. It is definitely time for me to face my fears head on.

Assuming i could go back in time and talk to myself as highschool senior. Knowing what i know now about college life and making transitiion, the advice i would give myself would be long winded. I would tell myself that the people I assumed friendship with would turn into, two killers, a stripper, one deseced , a drug dealer, and credit card scammers. Reginald Wiggins and Jamal Armstead turned into killers the night of May 27th,2008. A party I so desperated wanted to attend ended with the death of 16 year old Maurice McIver and my childhood friends on the run from the law. Two days later Jamal Armstead's picture plastered the front of The New York's Daily News which the feature articled titled "Suddenly it seems like city's full of kids with gun" at 16 i went throught the painful transition of disassociating myself from people I grew up with that over stupid descisons that where made are now killers. My college self would give the advice that working hard will pay off. Also that It isnt true that i would of became an product of my enviroment and that you recieve what you give out.

college is not a games. when you go study and work hard.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior. Knowing what I know now about college life and making the transition, I would definitely advise myself that the work is based off high school knowledge. Having a good foundation of writing skills, math skills, reading skills, communication skills; and people skills all come into action once you get into college. I definitely would tell myself to hustle harder to get that grade point average up as high as possible, because college's really do look at that. Knowing what I know now about college life, I would read more. Reading, would enchance will my vocubulary and knowledge.

I would have started to look at colleges earlyer then I did and try to attend a college near my home town. I would have tried to go visit different colleges so I would have had choices of colleges to go to.

If i had the opportunity to go back in time and talk to myself as a high school student i would tell myself to be more focused. knowing what i know now, I know that college is not all about partying and having fun. You must be serious about your education. I would also go into explaining why it is very important to have a good G.P.A. My main point would be work hard and play later because you can always have fun and party but its extremly more important to have high grades.

The advice i would give myself as a high school study about college would be to stay focus, work hard, and aim for the stars. Also i would say don't give in to peer pressure because the only friend you have is yourself.

I would tell myself to do better in school and bring my grades up. I would also apply to other colleges before this one.

I have thought about the question “if I could go back in time” plenty of times. If this was possible, I would tell myself that education IS important for my future unlike some of the things I was told and believed. I was told to enjoy the high school years but I was not told to take the education seriously. I wish I had done that. My much older siblings, fortunately, have been successful without a college degree and therefore I thought I could do the same. Unfortunately I was wrong. With so many bumps in the road for me I have finally opened my eyes to the importance of education. I feel that I am such a good person. I have never fallen in the temptation of drugs or alcohol and I have had many good jobs and unfortunately got comfortable and eventually laid off due to the bad economy. I have not married nor had children for the reason being that I do not have a stable career. If I knew what I know now 13 years ago I definitely would have done things a lot different.