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The main thing I would have told myself as a high school senior would be to have tried to become and officer in a club at school. I was involved in the National Honor Society, and other club, but I never held a position. Knowing what I know now about what colleges are looking for for scholarships, I definately would have strived harder to immerse myself into a school club. On a different note, I would have told myself not to be so stressed during my senior year and just enjoy it more. Senior year is stressful with all the tests, final grades, work, and applying for scholarships and acceptance to schools that I should have taken an extra breath or two and calmed down. I would have also mentioned that college life of course is no walk in the park, but that it can be very fulfilling and just plain fun!

1) Go to class! This is not anything like high school. Some professors give attendance points and those points can mean the difference between an A or B. 2) Get to know your professors. They have been through exactly what you are going through. Talk to them, email them, and call them. No matter how hard they may be on you?they do want you to succeed. 3) Treasure the long nights of uninterrupted sleep you are getting now, because nights like those will be few and far in-between once you start college. ?Sleep is a luxury, the time-oriented enjoy and the procrastinators covet.? 4) Always, always, always ask questions about whatever it is you do not understand. The worst mistake you can make is to sit there silently confused and try to play ?catch-up? right before your test. 5) Constantly know what your grades and gpa are. There is a plethora of scholarships and clubs that you are qualified for with the right grades. 6) And finally, LIVE IT UP! This will be one of the most challenging and fun transitions in your life. Do not be shy. Everyone is just as nervous as you are.

If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, i would tell myself that college is not just for the smarter and more well off students around me. I have had more opportunities moving around the country than any single student who has lived in the same area their whole life. Just because your grades are affected in a negative way does not mean that it is because you dont know what you are doing. Many teachers just do not understand how hard it is for a student to catch up at every new school. Take it slow and try to remember how that one special teacher taught you and apply it to your other subjects. Ask more questions without feeling intimidated, even though it seems everyone knows more than you. Talk to the career counselor early and find out about different careers so that you can try to figure out where your strengths are and work towards them while still in high school. Visit campuses around the area, even the local Community college, to get a feel of college life. Finally, know who you are and dont be scared of growing up!

I would tell myself to take things slow, and do not overload myself with work and school. More advice would be to not allow myself to get caught up in the freedom of college life, such as not having parents tell you that you need to study. The main advice i would tell myself is that school is the most important thing, and to always put it first.

I would tell myself to get involved with everything possible my senior year of highschool and as a college freshman. To be able to focus more on a career that is stable and not based on monitary value. To join a soriety, they will not only help with socialization, but with education as well. I would tell my self to concentrate on finishing, and not allowing my self to get overwhelmed with what's going on in the world. I need to be able to study on my subjects as being a Teacher, put my focus on graduating with my Bachelor's degree and to be able to make good decisions for the time being and my future, so that I will not have to look back at the poor decisions I made.

In retrospect, if I could return to myself as a senior in high school, I would advise myself to do whatever it took to complete my degree as soon as I graduated. As a non-traditional student and divorced mother of two daughters with sole custody, I find it more challenging to attend school now. I work 3 part-time jobs to allow me to work around my own college schedule as well as the activities and school schedules of my children. If I could return to myself as a senior in high school, I would want to show myself a movie of what my future held as it stands today. I would probably point out certain things like the dark circles and bags beneath my eyes from a lack of sleep, the cost for babysitters and childcare that I incure while in class and away from my daughters, as well as the absence of a social life and hobbies.

If I could go back in time and talk with myself as a high school senior, knowing what i know now about college life and making the transition, I would give myself this advice which was first given by bill gates himself. "Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades; they will give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bare the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life." The purpose of giving myself this information would be to spur me to realize that college is nothing like high school. It is long, expensive, time consuming, difficult, but the trade of all these difficulties are a future. Television shows and movies depict a grand life of an easy coming unequivocally but this simply is not true. By telling myself this quote i would invite myself to champion the halls of my academic Studies, knowing that the end justifies the means. Yes, friends may be forsaken, parties unattended, late nights never undertaken but nothing worth having is easy, and everything worth having is obtainable.

I would not change a thing about my choice of school, but my classes look in to them alot more.

As a high school senior, I was ready to get out there and start living life. I started college, but then rushed into getting married at a young age. The relationship didn't work, and we divorced. I took time off from school to get my life and my head straightened out. The time off hurt my ambition, and I almost didn't go back to finish my degree. I finally did go back because I was only a semester away from finishing. As I was finishing my degree I came to the realization that this wasn't the career tract that I wanted. I was so distracted by my "life" that I hadn't focused on where I wanted my future to go. I spent the next 6 years trying to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. Luckily, I did. If I could go back and talk to myself as a senior; I would tell myself to focus on myself and my ambition to succeed. There is only so much time we are given, and once you make a choice in your life it's very difficult to change it.

If I was to go back in time to talk to myself about what i know so far about college in my senior year is to not be as stressful as i was about college. Here are a few steps you can follow and know before you finish your senior year. The first two to four year is you taking your requirements classes, which is similar to high school classes. Money does not have to big that big of a problem as long as your working and paying it off because the last thing that should be on your mind is taking a loan to pay off school. But there is a lot of ways to work around that, which is to work and apply for as much scholarships as you can. It does not matter if you don't fit with the scholarship; just apply because it better to try and get something, then not getting anything. And no matter what, finish your FAFSA before March. You want to get as much money as you can to help you. If you are able to follow these steps, you will be fine.