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Advise to Senior High School Self. reflecting on myself back in high Senior year, and remember with a heavy heart and but more pride for the way things have worked themselves out within my life, although I was a C average student, I often found myself second guessing myself within all areas of my life, caving into peer pressure, letting doubt deter me from pursuing my educational goals, and prevented me from taking the first steps towards my dreams. After I graduated high school, I enlisted in the military. Learning how to perceptive both success and failure, how to precise and evaluate situations, how to approach them with an open mind, and where I went wrong and where I went right, the feeling of regret having resurfaced recently while reflecting on this question, what I learned from failure and the joy completing a class. Increasing my knowledge while comprehend the material , enjoyment of learning with my peers and how to apply this to my life today, so the advice I would give my high school self; would be: “Don’t worry about failures, worrying about that first step and whether or not you take it in the first place.

When you start college, you are asked to pick a major and dedicate yourself to that major, and essentially to a future. I wasn't ready. During high school, I assumed that if I just followed everyone's advice and worked hard, I would end up happy and successful. What I did not realize is that, in order to work for what I want in life, I must first know what it is that I want. While I did receive lots of meaningful advice, I put too much weight on the opinions of others. I took what they said as 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} truth and never took the time for self-reflection and self-discovery. Advice is meant to help and guide, but only the individual can decide what is true for himself/herself. In high school, one must remember that there are many different types of learning, more than high school can offer. If I could, I would say to my high school self: Busy yourself with self-exploration: figure out who you are, what's important to you, what you enjoy doing. Shadow people in different careers, volunteer for different organizations, and remember to keep an open mind.

If I could go back into time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would tell myself to not let others influence my decision on my major and what college I attended. I chose to go to a state school because it was the cheapest option for me, but everyday I regret not looking into other colleges that could have been a better fit for me. Also, as a senior in high school I chose a major based on what I was good at in school because that what other people did. In deciding a major back then, I neglected myself by not choosing a major that would lead me to a career that I love doing. As I enter my fourth year of college, I have changed my major at least 5 times and it took me two full years to finally decided on a major that I actually want to study. In this process I have added an extra year onto the usual four years. Even if I had the chance to tell my past self this, I would not because the lessons that I have learned from this experience are invaluable.

After completing my first year at a large university if I could go back and speak to myself high school senior self I would recommend a few changes. The most important thing I would tell myself is to get more involved. Instead of only focusing on my grades and GPA I would become more involved in sports, clubs, and senior activities. This is something I consider to be extremely important because at such a large university I found it at first hard to become involved in such a high volume of students. I think this advice to myself would have helped me to enjoy high school more and in turn allowed me to learn more skills that would have transferred to the university level. I think while academics are the most important thing it is almost equally important to learn leadership, group, and people skills. Learning this on a smaller scale could have helped me with the big transition to college.

I would tell myself to work harder and not let other people promblems reflect my life, no matter how much i care about them. Also that i should apply 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of myself towards my dreams and just encourage myself that theres always going to be people who try tearing you down and belittle you, you just need to learn to let go of all the bad and put yourself first and remeber you are worth something. Even if things dont go the way you wanted them to , to NEVER stop trying.

Savannah, As you begin the application process to Universities across the country, know that you need to focus on the opportunities available to you on the campus. No one has told you this, but Universities offer different scholarships to different students. Take a chance, apply to the out of state colleges and the big ivy leagues. There is nothing you can not accomplish, and every school offers aid in various ways. When you finally make the transition to the university of your choice, you will miss the simplicity of home. However, everything is up to you now - your diet, your homework, your sleep schedule. It is important to balance your time. Don't be afraid to meet knew people, they will make or break your experience because being timid and holing up in your room will not be beneficial to your mental state. Also, having a job on campus and joining clubs will help you to find your niche and begin the path to your dreams. Get out there, make friends, go to office hours, go to class. Take a chance and make the most out of your experience. Forever yours, Futue Savannah.

I would suggest to live on campus for the first year. It is more expensive, but more academic resources are easy to access to if you live on campus. I would also suggest apply to a lot of scholarships. It is better to get a head start on saving money. Take advantage of the resources the college offers to you. Such as, tutoring, computers, study areas, etc. Take advantage of your professor’s office hours if you need help, or have questions. They took time out of their day to be available to their students. For textbooks, it's usually cheaper to rent them than to buy. Check your school email as often as you can for classes being cancelled, class updates, school events, and deadlines. Use a calendar or agenda to keep track of what is due and test dates. It’s really helpful to keep track of everything so you do not get overwhelmed. If your college is holding some events take part in them! Not everything is about schoolwork. It is a good idea to relieve some stress. Try to be involved with your campus by joining a club or participating in the events they hold.

Time management is key for going to college. Without time management you will fail two semesters and it will take you three semesters to make up the failed classes and raise your GPA to get into the College of Engineering. In your freshman year, your ezcema will affect how you look drastically. Make sure you see the dermatologist and read about the medications the doctor gives you. Some of these medications will help for a limited number of time but then it will give you rashes which you will think is your ezcema. Without you feeling good about your appearance, it is going to be hard to attend class and even go out for you will be ashamed of your skin especially around your face. So please take care of your body and manage your time carefully for time management and confidence is key to succeding not just in college but in anything you set your mind to.

I find this a tough question to answer because I know what advice I would gived myself but the real question is would I choose to? My advice would be to move up to Massachusetts with my mother and sister instead of staying in Tennessee. I believe with their support I would have continued school up North and have taken a very different path in life. I can imagin what my life may have been: Graduating in 2008 mostly likely in Pre-Veterinarian Sciences and continuing my education unitl I became a Veterinarian. Perhaps in this alternative life I would be ready to start a family in the home I bought with my husband. Over all it may have been an easier path (we will never know) but I would not want to go down it. Instand I choose not to give my past self any advice and still take the path where I quit school, get involved with my anit-dream guy, and travel the country essentially homeless. I choose this unconventional and difficult path because it is the one that lead me to my salvation and motivation: My two beautiful daughters.

The advice I would get myself in highschool to help with the transition to college is to always talk to the professor either before or after class whenever possible about the topic of that hour. It will help later when needing letters of recommendations and help in that class when the teacher knows your name and knows you're personality. In addition, I'd tell myself to develop study techniques to help with classes that are particularily difficult, such as the Econ 200 class taken this past spring along with the Russian class that was taken in addition to another language class. I'd also tell my past self to not take herself so seriously all the time. To let lose, and do what makes her happy. She shouldn't need to do anything that she doesn't want to, and the only way she's gonna succeed later on is if she finds something she's super passionate about, that causes her eyes to light up when she talks about it, and to never doubt herself about what she can do. I also advise her to find mentors in her profession because they'll help her in the longrun.