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If I could go back in time and give myself advise, I would tell myself, "Make sure you don't overload in any one semester. Balance your schedule so that you are not taking a lot of heavy courses at one time. Take care of yourself and get your rest. Don't let yourself stay up too late studying because you won't remember anything if you are asleep in class. Write every assignment down. Don't trust yourself to remember because there will always be that one assignment that you forget about until the day that it is due. Let yourself breath. Don't be all schoolwork all the time, because it will only stress you out and confuse other people. Stay focused on your ultimate goal. Don't let yourself get bogged down with the papers and the notes and the quizzes and exams. Keep telling yourself that it will all be worth it when you are working at your dream job one day."

I would tell myself that no matter what everything will be okay. I would tell myself to not be afraid to ask or questions or ask my classmates for help. Going from a small town to a large city is a big transition. I would tell myself to live in a dorm and meet as many friends as I could and to be involved in everything that I could. College life is way different than you think it will be and what you see in movies. You are the only one who can make it the best experience. Yes school is important but having a social life is also important. If you are in your apartment doing nothing while you dont have class you will not have a good time and hate it there. Go out and make friends, have fun, but make sure to not get carried away and keep your grades up. At the end of the year you will look back and be excited for your next year to come. Enjoy it while you can.

As a high school senior about to enter college, the advice I would give you is to stay focused. Some freshmans go into college thinking its a time to have fun all day and night. You can have your fun, but be smart about it because you are also there for your studies. Go to class as much as you can because there may be days were you can miss something important. Try your hardest in ever assignment given to you and if you don't get it, don't be afraid to go to the professor for help. If you just follow the work you will succeed. When it comes to having fun, make sure to be safe and travel in groups at night no matter where you go. If you want to meet different people, join a club because you meet an abundant amount of people by joining just one club. Don't stress out, these are the best four years to come and as long as you try, stay strong, focus and have fun, you will excceed!

It is something that probably most of us have wondered or wish we could do. To go back in time and tell ourselves which decisions to make that will benefit our future. If I could go back and give my high school senior self some advice it would be simply to enjoy college. Do not work as many hours, live on campus, and travel. I should have lived the college experience first and spent less time on working. I remember going from class to class and seeing large groups of people gathering and having a great time or walking by the dorms thinking what it would be like to live on campus. This is what the university experience should be for every student and not working 35 hours a week and still taking full loads. Yes, I know I missed out on a lot and cannot really go back in time to give myself some advice but I can use what I learned and give my children this advice. I am already excited for them when I see that at only 9 and 6 years old, they are excited about college.

I would tell myself that I need to apply for college now, instead of waiting another year to apply. I would tell myself to start applying for scholarships as well and that to start seriously considering student loans. I would also tell myself to work extremely hard this year because it's the most important of your whole high school experience and to just have fun, because this year will never happen again and this is the last chance you have to be with your friends. Pay attention in all your classes, especially economics because you're really going to need to know that stuff later. Most importantly, don't let all of this drama get to you because it's absolutely not going to be worth it later on in your life.

I would warn myself to be prepared for the workload and to learn how to study. As a high school student, I hardly studied and I graduated with a 3.98 GPA. I was expecting college to be harder, but not difficult. Along with learning how to properly study, I would tell myself to stay on a strict sleeping schedule. Being in college, I'm always tired, so having a sleeping scheduale would help me. Lastly, I would advise myself to apply for tons of scholarships, because college takes up all your funds and you can't do anything else after that. If I had applied for every single scholarship I could find, then I might have gotten some. All that extra money would help me a great deal in my journey to be a neurosurgeon.

Do not worry too much! Always balance school and fun! It's so important to start off with a solid academic foundation and strice to do well. Go to study groups, office hours, and lectures! They'll help so much and it shows the professors that you care. Try to make a friend in every class because it helps you strive for better. Have fun! Start your work early that wy you can spend time on it and enjoy your time here! You only get four years and they're so different from high school. You're expected to grow and mature more than ever before and welcome that change. you got this!

I did not attend high school past the tenth grade, but obtained my GED at 18 years old. I had good reasons to be disenfranshised by my school, but in hindsight I would have went on a search for another school that I felt was more scholarship-based. I would then have put forth the same effort that I did in college, and catapulted myself to a degree at a very young age. Either way, I suspect at the end of my life it will wind up being adjudicated about the same. As it is, I learned valuable life lessons BEFORE I finished school. If I had stayed in high school, I would have graduated BEFORE I learned those lessons. The main difference, I think, would be in the measure of financial success I would have been able to create at an earlier age. It is ironic, because the very school I was so disaffected by is now an excellent school. Go figure!

Live in the dorms. Figure out degree requirements Get involved and branch out Start building your resume and planning for your future Study abroad Stay healthy, get enough sleep, exercise regularly Remember who you are and don't let college change you too much Get good grades Work over summer or do some sort of internship Pick a major you enjoy but can get a job with Get Gen Eds out of the way first check ratemyprofessors.com for teacher reviews Find an older brother or friend that can give you the real talk Live every day to the fullest and work to have the experience you want Make it the college you want it to be Don't just chill with your high school friends