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Looking back from where I currently stand today in college, I would go back to my senior and tell myself to study harder, take everything that I learned and equip myself with what the teachers gave me for my future courses. Furthermore, I would tell myself to study harder and not to slack off because what I do during my senior year will carry on to college and will either help me or do nothing for me. I would tell myself to keep my head in the books and use what the teachers gave me for my near future. I would also tell myself to take everything I do in school seriously because everything the teachers gave me represents real life and responcible things that I need that will help me with my future. The teachers cared about my future and don't want to see me ruin it, so my advice to myself as a senior would be to be comitted, study harder, and take it all seriously.

To make sure I focus, so that my GPA would be higher than what is was. Engage in better study habbits and better communication. I don't like speaking in front of people, and in high school even though I knew everybody I still couldn't talk in front of people, I would have tried to work on that more. My teachers knew me pretty well so I like the relationship I had with them, to continue it over into my university life. Other than that besides financial things, i think I transitioned well, I wouldn't change much, because I learned from everything I have been through.

I would have told myself to finish my senior year off very strong and with the best grades that I could achieve. It would have been very important to work a lot more over the summer, inorder to have more money for when I got to school. Once moving to college, It would have been best to network a lot sooner then I did. Its important to stay on top of all of the work and work extra hard to mantain a great gpa. I would let myself know to make sure to choose a major that I knew that I was going to stick to and get a degree in. I would've encourge myself to get invould way more on campus.

The advice I would give myself and any other senior would be start searching up the tuition and fees right away. Also start applying for scholarships,grants, and fafsa immediately. This would be because everything in college costs!

I graduated as salutatorian from my high school and I currently rank in the top 10{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of my class. There isn’t much I could tell myself academically, because I am still focused in and out of the classroom. However, I would have definitely researched more on the cost of attendance. I knew I didn’t want to stay in-state but out-of-state tuition has put my parents in more debt. I would have looking into more scholarships being offered by the state of Tennessee as well as the University.

I would tell myself that going to college would be great for our future. I wouldn't worry about having time to go to parties and hanging out. I would definitely work on time manaagement and get motivated for the success that comes after all of the hard work that is put into our college education. Going to college could be very influential on the future that you may perceive yourself to be at in the future. I would also remind myself that there is a lot of resources to help you with all the help that may be needed for your success.

If I could go back to highschool to work harder in getting good grades and not playing around in the classroom along with friends. but it was hard on me being at school once my little sister got sick. I was never at home and moving around to stay with a family members at times. I really wasn't thinking about college or how my grades affected me at the time until my junior year of highschool. And that year was hard that same year my sister died at the age of one years old. but I still came to school every day gave it my all during my highschool year. I always did my work and work hard to earn good grades in all my classes. The advice I would give myself is to never give up on your dreams and have faith towards the journey or what ever you are tryin to achieve. And don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it because you can. My goals was to become better than my parents and to prove to myself that I can do it . I can do it and to prove others that wrong.

The advice I would give myself as a high school student is stay focused on my school work and keep my gpa up at a certain level.

I would have applyed to more colleges and universities rather than just apply to three in state colleges and also vist other universities out of state.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself to focus a little more. I would tell me that I need to get used to having a lot of work, tell myself to actually use my planner, pay attention in class, do not skip any classes (I never did in high school because I would be dead), I would tell myself to be a little more outgoing and social to new people. I would tell myself not to take anything for granted, to respect my teachers, and do all of my school work, not just the easy stuff.