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Don't go to college. It is stupid expensive, and you do _not_ know what you want to do. Take a year off after high school. Work, travel (if you can afford it, which you can not), study on your own, and figure out what you want to do. Then go sell your soul to pay for college.

I wish i would of knew how to effectively manage my time between studying and having fun.

I wish I would have taken advantage of all of the tremendous resources Purdue has to offer to students. Purdue has an incredible wealth of libraries, study areas, and most of all TA's that give their time to help with completing assignments and studying for exams. It wasn't until late in my junior year until I started going to TA office hours and realized how helpful they are. It was as if I got six hours worth of studying done in one. I'm sure if I would have known this earlier my GPA would have been higher.

I wish I would have known more of what I wanted to do for a career. I wish I would have known more of my strengths and weaknesses in different situations.

I wish that in high school I had had more resources available toward the procedures of college including loans, scholarships, career advice, and help choosing a major. Having help preparing for college would make the process less stressful, students would then be making more educated financial and academic choices. Fortunately, once I got to Purdue, there were resources available to me including academic advising, career counseling, and financial counseling. I think high schools should consider ways to work more with college counselors to help students be more informed and prepared as they head to college.

I wish I knew to take more AP courses in high school in order to get out of some of the introductory courses. Also, I am in pharmacy. Leadership is a huge part of the application process. I wish I had a leadership position in High school that would have enhanced my resume when applying for other positions in college.

Before attending Purdue University, I wish I would have known about my options past my freshman year. Each acitvity that an individual takes on eventually impacts where they go later in their college career. For example, I wish I would have been more educated about greek life vs. becoming a Resident Assistant. When I learned about these opportunities, I learned that I may only choose one. This was a difficult decision for me to make in the short amount of time, however, I am pleased with my final decision to attempt to become a Resident Assistant.

If there is anything I wish, it is that I had known how much I would find my place by being so far away from home. Being someone with as many allergies and being sickly as a child really had me a bit scared of stepping out and finding myself in a new city, but being here has shown me that I had a lot more promise than I could have ever thought of. It's one of those things you don't expect, but you love to realize.

I wish that I knew how to study properly before coming to college.

I wish that I knew the challenges that awaited me. I did not realize at first what it meant to be a student at Purdue University. The challenges I mentioned before really pushed me to near fail. Time management did not make sense to me at first. I never had to effectively balance out time between school, work, and friends on my own. Freshman year was my first year ever dealing with financial issues. Never in my life had I ever truly felt lost than I did first year, up until I learned that I could do this.