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Dear Daysia, your mother was right. You need to study harder. I don't care if you got a B on the test. If you can do better, then do better. Boys shouldn't be on your mind right now. You should do good for yourself not for anyone else so that when they are gone you still have something to work for. There is no such thing as good enough. In other words, your mother, as usual, was right. On the bright side you were right about one thing. Life is, in fact, like a fortune cookie. You get something and try to find out what it means and were it'll play out at, but in the long run it will play out and you won't even notice cause you were to busy trying to preplan things. Things don't always work out. When they do, cherish it for as long as it lasts

If there was a way for me to go back in time and give my high school self advice it would be just study and listen. I would tell myself the college life is nothing compared to high school. College is preparing you for life and the choices you make in college will affect you in the long run. I wouldtell myself to study like you have never before and don't stop no matter what the reason beacause in college study is a must and you can never slack off for a moment . High school has nothing compared to college in high school if you didn't understand a subject or problem you would ask help. Where in college if you don't understand the problem you won't get much help from anybody not even the teacher you will be left behind. I would tell myself there's anybody in college to rely on only yourself. It's time for your to grow up and stop relying on other's. Your whole life people been giving you advice for college now it's time to listen to youself and choice how you will embrace college life.

I would tell my high school self to not be afraid to try new things, and to become as active as I could in all aspects of my university. I would say dont let academics run your life like you did in high school, but do well academically and make sure to leave time for social events.

I would tell them not to be stressed. Your future plans will all work out, don't base your college decision on anyone, but yourself.

The advice that I would give myself as a high school senior is to always remember who I am. I believe that many people lose touch of who they are as a person with the changes that come with college life. It is easy to surrender your values and beliefs in order to fit into a new environment and to try to make new friends. I would tell myself that if I held on to who I was as a person then I would be able to find friends that shared the same values and that I could relate to. It is hard to make the transition but it is even more difficult when you are struggling to build a new identity for yourself. I believe it is important in your freshman year of college to stop and reflect every once in a while to check in with yourself and to make sure you are proud of who you are what you are doing, and the choices you are making.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I am wandering the empty hallways, contemplating the high school dilemmas of my high school life. The brightly-colored posters cover the cold cement walls like a blanket embedded with expectations and subliminal messages. Teachers who make you feel less like a kid, and more like a friend. I see my friends, some of which are no longer a part of my world, figuratively and literally, but who exist inside the walls where we spent a mass of our precious adolescent lives. If I could just go back, I would tell myself that time is something that we cannot make up, and cannot get back. My list of advice would be: Focus on aspects of life that are truly important, and carry that along through the transition into crazy college life. Stop agonizing over social life for long enough to concentrate on finding out who I am, what I want, and how I am going to make it happen. Be prepared for anything and everything. And finally, aside from good grades and extra-curricular activities, it is just as important to work on yourself, and become the person that you aspire to be.

Dear high school self, Congratulations! All your hard work is going to pay off. Stop stressing about not having the same SAT or ACT scores as the other students, or the same GPA as the valedictorian. Take pride in what you're on the brink of accomplishing, and do not doubt the countless hours you spend on school work, studying for SAT's, or revising your personal statements because it is worth it. Relax during your holiday vacation, and take a break from constantly stalking your emails in search of acceptance letters. When the letters finally arrive, keep and open mind, and if they are not what you want, don't lose hope. The future is full of surproses as your 'last choice school' will be exactly what you wanted, and believe it or not, you will one day be thankful you did not attend your once 'dream school.' Keep up your hard work, continue your determination, and remember your dreams because they will bring you opportunities previously unimaginable. P.S. Enjoy senior year! Graduation will come so fast, and despite what you may think now, you will miss high school.

As a high school senior, I applied to 18 different colleges, writing essay after essay and stressing over finding the "perfect" college for me. However, although Pepperdine is a dream come true, I now realize that I stressed over college applications and choosing a major way too much. As I participate in activities, study new subjects, and partake in internships, I realize that finding the perfect school, job, or major isn't as important as utilizing all the resources there are at your college and within your area. Therefore, I would tell myself to take a step back, relax, and realize it's not worth getting an ulcer or being a nervous about, and by realizing the diversity and uncomfortable situations you may encounter will eventually make you stronger, you can just enjoy the totality of the journey.

If i were to go back in time to highschool me i would first off encourage high school me to be more outgoing. In high school i was never very outgoing and didnt have a ton of friends but coming here to pepperdine i made a conscious effort to be more outgoing and talk to people and it has made all the difference. probably the biggest thing that i would change though is getting better time management skills. i breezed through high school with very little effort always putting things off until the last minute and in college with all the free time that you have as students it became even tougher to push myself to finish things early.

If I could go back in time and talk to mysself as a high school senior I would tell myself to never giver up, to not become unmotivated just because times get hard. Through college I've expereienced a lot of rough patches and long nights studying for days on end. Although at the time it seemed as though it simply couldn't get any worse, it always got better. No matter how hard things seemed, I was always able to eventually over come them. I would tell myself to stay focused and with that advice given to me as a senior from my future self, I would get through these rough times faster then I did this past year. At times things may seem impossible, but it's always important to remind ourselves that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, we just have to keep looking up for it instead of keeping our heads down and only focusing on the darkness around us.