Pasco-Hernando State College Top Questions

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Dear High School Self, As an older and wiser version of yourself, I would like to give you some much needed insight to help you on the road ahead. First and foremost, your focus is really lacking as is your effective prioritizing! Your social life, pleasure and self absorption are currently on the top of your priority list and does you a complete disservice. You should enjoy your senior year and embrace your interest for social activities but focus on identifying your life's passion and begin pursuing it by effectively goal setting and diligently seeking those areas. Listen to those who have been put in your life to guide you with their wisdom. Do not reject the imparting of the wise, as this is truely a blessing that will help you steer clear of the plethora of road blocks your path is littered with ahead. The most valuable things in life are earned through hard work and diligence. Although you will be tempted to take a sebatical from hard work and venture down a path of leisure of the moment, do not take that road as it leads to a place you do not belong. Love yourself.

If I could go back in time and talk to my senior self, I would tell myself to save save save my money and stop buying things that don't matter because when you're in college you appriciate every cent. Don't spend your parent's money, make your own. Don't depend on loans. It's a good feeling when the temporary items you could have bought, paid for a textbook instead. Also, don't dwell on current friends, keep in touch, but in college you meet so many new people, and you go on your own path and lead your own life. Your high school drama problems now will not matter when you're a college student, trust me. I would also tell myself to talk to the cute boy in math class because if you don't, you'll spend your whole first semester of college thinking "what if" and it's not a good feeling. Another thing, I would probably tell myself is that what other people think of me doesn't matter, and what I think about myself is way more important. Hold your head high, and everything gets better.

I would tell myself to ignore the social distractions in life. Their will be plenty of time for social activities in the many years to follow. For the meantime, de-activate facebook, instagram, and twitter. Concentrate, focus, and dedicate yourself to growing internally before externally.

If I could go back the first thing I would suggest would be to attend college right after high school. I would also remind myself to stay focused on my studies and to continue to assist friends and classmates with theirs. I would also like to remind myself to have fun and enjoy the present. Finally to follow your dreams and make the impossible, possible.

I have not been to college yet, but I would say to take your work and grades very serious. Take advantage of tutoring and teachers helping you. Education is the most important thing, school, jobs, and friends come after.

Dillon, Listen closely. The world may be a scary place, but that's only if you decide to be scared. When you go to college. You're going to select a major that you just want to go with because your relatives are involve in it. I say this, don't choose a major because of that, choose one that you want, that would make you happy. Also know that there are many different types of people that you will meet. People that may seem strange, or weird to you. But don't let that make you judge them. Because those types of people will turn out to be good friends. Along the road, you will meet many people like yourself. Good luck, me!

I would tell myself, stop playing around! Although friends, gossip, and weekend plans seem important now they aren't important in the future. Friends (most of them) will dissapear, you wont care who is dating who, and your weekends will be filled with a job and homework. You will realize in college how much of this is true. With that being said I would go into duel enrollment. I never saw this as something important so if I could go back I would stress how much easier that would have made college for me! I would have to let myself know how much a loan really ends up costing and i could have saved thousands by duel enrolling and letting the school board pay for it, not to mention have a degree by the time i was 20, that would have caught my attention! Even though all these things would have been vital information back in high school nothing would beat the advice on waiting to have children. If I could go back to myself in highschool I would show myself every recipt or every expense and record myself trying to study with two screaming kids. If only I could.

If I could go back to my senior year i would change one thing. I would change my study habbits. During my senior year I had very bad study habbits. My senior year was so easy that I barely had to do work to pass. But the second I went off to this college i attend now, it required me to study everyday for hours of the day and its so hard for me to just jump into studying for hours of the day when I never even opened a book the year before. It's hard to brake old habbits excspecially when the new habbits require hard work all of a sudden. I learned how to manage time and study proper and so far I am succesful but it would of been alot better if i practiced it the year before.

These four years of college are the best years of your life. The literature classes you take will open your mind to different ideas, and your writing classes will be some of the most fun you've had. Don't worry about whether or not any classmates like your ideas; they'll be kind, accepting and give feedback based on the mechanics of your writing, not on the genre or what you choose to write about. Sharing your final song in Lyric Writing will be fun, and people will tell you that you did well, and some of your structural choices will be explained. You'll remember several professors, but one of the ones that will stick out for you will be your World Lit professor, who'll be nothing like you first expect, and the class will be one of your favorites because of it. You'll also get the chance to go to Canada (don't worry that your mom won't let you go; she'll be tickled enough to swap out a Traverse City vacation so you can go). In short, college will be an adventure (and don't worry, you won't have debt).