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If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would have told myself to search more on what I wanted to do. To take my time and not worry about what others thought about my decision for a major. Now I am doing what I want to do and with out doubt or worry about my music major. I would also say to myself to save money and search for more scholarships and apply to them. I used to be a procrastinator. I would have said to move quicker because many opportunities are going to be once in a life time and that time is precious. I used to be so stressed about college and worried that if I don't get into a college that my life would be over. I would say that it's going to be okay, community college is not bad. It's a college with many possibilities as any college.

Try to get as many scholarships as possible, they'll be incredibly helpful when you get to school. Make sure to really focus on your school work, especially in your first term as there are a lot of distractions.

I would tell myself that college requires an intensive amount of effort, and even though it is fun, it is only fun if I put in all the effort. I would also tell myself that only I know what is really best for myself, and not to let other people interfere in my career.

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If I could go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, I would give myself little advice. I believe that the best part about going to college is the process of becoming an independent young adult: taking what I have learned prior and applying it to what I can make of myself as an adult. I found plenty of well-received advice from peers, parents, and teachers that informed me about college, but the best advice I believe I could give myself is just to experience it for myself because that's what becoming an adult is all about.

I would tell myself "take a seminar on how to study or something!!" It wasn't until this winter term ended that I realized I recevied no direction from my high school teachers about how to study. I came into college with great grades, thinking it would be just as easy as high school. Boy, was I wrong. "Learn good study habits, because Mrs. Hillman wasn't lying when she told you college would be more difficult than you ever could imagine."

If I could give my high school senior self some advice I would tell myself to relax, have an open mind, and explore myself more. I came to Oregon to explore a new place, I am originally from Oklahoma and it was a very hard transition for me. I believe that had I known what I do now, that I could have been more successful in my endeavors. I would give myself the advice to study abroad early in my academic career when I could and needed to escape to another country and have another new experience. Telling myself that I needed to keep an open mind while exploring the next stage of my life would have been very helpful, as well. Now, I understand how the university works and am established with a strong support system, I would have relaxed a lot more and just enjoyed the beginning of college career and the evolution of myself as a student and an adult. College life is an experience, no matter what expectations one has, so the most important thing I would have told myself is to take it slow, learn as much as possible, and enjoy myself, no matter what.

Destynie, No matter what happens stay in school do not put it off for 7 years. I know you can accomplish this and have a much better life for you and your children. Sincerely, Yourself

When I first arrived here, I thought I was going to be an economics or business major. I was a shy, quiet, and depressed person with few friends. I studied "heady" subjects like political science, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. A short year turned everything around. I took a freshman seminar with a wonderfully engaging, manic, and witty poetry professor named George Moore who played bass for Allen Ginsberg's band and taught us of Arthur Rimbaud. He wanted us to be ourselves no matter the cost -- no, he forced it. Even those who resisted initially eventually broke down and we transformed ourselves from largely lost and nervous freshman into, by the end of class, a confident pack of brothers and sisters slinging poetry in the auditorium. That class changed my life. It was after that I became hungry for the arts and started to draw, act, dance, sing and play music. I then declared a Theater Arts major and auditioned for two major plays. I sometimes look back on even just that short year and marvel how different a person I could be now. I love my friends, I love my classes, I love my professors.

I have been shown a side of myself I didn't know was there five years ago. I started my college experience at Lane Community College. Armed with a ninth grade education and an uncageable desire for a richer life I passed a goverment test wich qualified me to recieve federal student aid. 112 credits later , and here I am a senior at the U of O. The journey has been filled with challenges, triumphs, and new understandings. I have perservered through a great deal, and as I find myself closer to graduation I can't help but to feel a blanket like surealness. the self confidence I have gained through my college experience is the most vaulable gain I have made. My time in college has taught me that I can do anything I put my efforts into. I have a new, brighter, child like sense of the endless possiblities the world has to offer; wether to accept the calling challenge is my choice, and I have chose to see this challenge through all the way to a P.H.D.