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Dear Me, You are looking towards graduating and a bright future. You're still looking in a bright future, don't worry! Truth is, you are a different person. In a few short months you have learned so much! Please, high school senior me, listen to your older self. Do listen to your parents. They know what they are talking about. Dedicate yourself more to the scholarship search. Financial worries are going to stress you out in a few short months. Get involved in ??. You will wish you were a more active member. Do not hang out with that guy. He is a creep. You just don't know it yet. Don't take French. It sucks. Stick with Spanish. A 3.01 is your 1st semester GPA. Not bad, but it could have been better. Study. You aren't going to BFF with your roomie. Church is going to be your favorite. Make time for your family and friends. Brad is actually going to stick around. Be nice to him. Never forget who you are. I promise you'll be proud. Finally, Don't let life rain on your parade. You are going to be okay.

I would first tell my high school self to take AP Biology! It would have been really nice for that to have been out of the way when I entered college. I would also tell myself to get prepared to branch out and make a lot of new friends, fast. In college, you meet so many different people from different walks of life. It's okay to forget names, but make sure to say hello when you see a familiar face because you probably met that person a few days or even hours ago. I would advise myself to not lose sight of who I really am. A lot of people forget who they were or where they came from when they start college. I know this is a different season of life, but you should always hang on to your roots. With all of that said, I would tell myself to most importantly to try new things, have fun, and hang on for a wild ride!

I would tell myself to not be afraid to make new friends. Just talking to people in the dining hall, going to a concert downtown, or just introducing yourself to the person next you on the bus. Also, to not be afraid to talk to your professors. They are there to help you. If you are having trouble or aren't doing as well as you would like, talk to them and work something out! I would also tell my high school self to apply for many more scholarships. Money is hard to come by and you will be so thankful for that extra money when your sophomore year in college comes around. Apply, apply and apply some more. Lastly I would say don't be afraid to make mistakes. Life is about learning so don't be afraid to mess up. You'll learn some important things about yourself and maybe even have a funny story to tell your children about one day. Just don't be afraid to live your college experience to the fullest.

Prepare now for you college education. The grades you make in high school and the scores you have on your SAT and ACT exams will be the keys to your educational future. Make the time to take some classes on how to improve your study habits and communication skills. Having a better understanding of how to study will ensure that you make better grades. Evaluate your priorities. Gaining a higher education is necessary in today’s job market.

I would tell myself to enjoy life in high school as long as you can and to spend time with your friends and family. Once you get to college, time flies by and you realize how important family is. The transition is not an easy one but it gets better with time. One good piece of advice is to put yourself out there and to make the best of your situations. Make a point to introduce yourself to people in your classes because they will become your lifelong friends. Another good piece of advice is to focus on time management. It is a good thing to work on while you are in high school because you have to know how to do it once you get to college. Once you are in college, you have so much free time and you have to be able to divide your time between school work and other activities.

Do not decide to work for a year or two, go ahead and finish school. This would have made studying and life in general a whole lot easier. I know that working seemed important, but if you would have gone straight to school, look how much further in your nursing career you would have been today. Keep setting small, short term goals to make it to your ultimate goal! Study hard, be a positive role models to yourself and others that are close, and never lose faith in yourself!

Knowing what I know now, I probably would have gone to a smaller school first, then transferred into the University of Georgia. I would have told myself to take a lighter course load than I did during my first semester, so I could focus more on community service and integrating myself more into the Athens community. I would definitely have told myself to stay as far away as possible from the Chemistry department at UGA, because they made my first year of school absolutely miserable. I should have spent less time worrying over Chemistry and spending all of my time studying for a class where my efforts did not correlate with my final grade in the class. I would tell myself to stop being so shy and actually get out and make some friends.

Taylor Swift sang it best when she said, “Even though you want to just try to never grow up.” Now that I am in college, I find myself looking back on my high school years more. Senior year was hands down one of the best years of my life. I had so much fun, but I always found myself looking forward to the future. Although I was enjoying myself, I was always looking forward to the next exciting thing happening & not taking in what was happening at the moment. Now, I look back in regret on all of the fun that I missed out on because I was never fully living in the moment. My advice would be to live in the moment. Take time to really appreciate what happens at the current moment. Spend time with the ones that you love because who knows how much longer they will be around. Most importantly, don’t rush growing up. Take your time being a kid. Enjoy the freedom of being young because it will be gone before you know it. “Just try to never grow up.”

The very first thing I would do If I could go back to the days of my high school senior year would be to apply to as many scholarships as I could get my hands on. College is stressfull enough without having to take out loans and figuring out how to pay for expensive books each semester. Maintaing a high GPA while working is much harder in college than it is in high school. I would also start putting together some sort of structure to my dialy schedule between school work and social activities. It seems that once you start college you have all of this newly found free time without limitations or restrictions, the last thing you feel like doing is five plus hours of school work. Procrastination may have gottn you through high school but it will never cary you through college. I would have definetly taken more Advanced Placement (AP) classes. While AP classes may seem like a dent in your easy senior year, it pays off to have the credit you obtain from them in college. You can end the first semester of your freshman year as a college sophomore.

BE YOURSELF. Hold your own. You can do it. Campus will seem big at first, but I promise once you find your friends and get used to the academics life will be so much easier.