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Dear 16yo Fatima: I know right now you are very bussy filling job aplications, scholarships aplications, and studying for finals and the CNA test. even if you are under stress please get enough sleep. enjoy it while you can because once you get into college you can only choose two out of the three options i will give you: good grades, sleep, or work. i know by fact that you will choose good grades and work. I would also like to tell you that you do not have to waste 100 dollars in the other colleges applications, you will get into WCSU and you wont regret it. Please save that money for your future books and PAY MORE ATTENTION TO YOUR MATH and ENGLISH TEACHER! trust me dear: you need to know that info. Also: do not waste your first paychecks: save them! save money as much as you can because college books are really expensive and apply to more schoolarships! you wont get all of them and you will regret it. I would like you to be less shy too. TALK and make friends so you can enjoy college life a little bit more. sinceraly, 20yo Fatima.

College wasn’t just academic, but a total transition. In high school I forced myself to pursue future education. I knew I wasn’t ready, but pressure prevailed. I was known as an average heterosexual female, not the depressed self-starving cutter and transsexual male I was. At college I became so sick I had to move back home, transferring to a local university. I've had therapy, medication, and been hospitalized. I finally came out and transitioned. College was more than an academic change. It’s been a physical and complete life transition. I take good care of myself. I excel in school and work a part-time job. After nine-and-a-half years I’ll be graduating. I’m happy, healthy and the person I always denied. I most regret the years I wasted. If I could speak to the younger me, I would say, “Wait. Figure yourself out. Personal transition is more important than doing what everyone says. You’ll waste years of your life. You don’t have to be too proud to ask for help.” I would go back and advise myself to tell the truth, take my time and give myself a break.

My advice would be simple. In order to save money, I would have told myself to go to a community college for two years and then go to a four year college. Everyone in high school seems to almost pressure you into living on campus to get the "experience" but to me, the experience isn't worth the debt you are bringing youself into.

f I could go back in time and talk to myslef as a high school senior, I would tell myself to mentally prepare for my transition to adulthood. College life isnt easy the first year, but if you are prepared for the transition, then it will be easier to surivive your first year of college.

I have learned that the work one accomplishes in college directly relates to the work that he or she will accomplish in his or her career. It has been valuable to attend college because of this preperation, as well as the experience of having a strenuous work load.

I have tried to take a variety of classes. I have declared a major (art - illustration) and have taken a lot of art classes which have developed my artisitic skills over the past few years. But I've also taken other classes that have just interested me in order to explore. Without going to college I don't think I would have had the opportunity to explore a variety of classes, some of which I've really enjoyed, others of which I've found out that I have no interest in ever taking again!

I have learned that people everywhere are generally the same. Whether it’s visiting a college campus, in the workplace, or on a busy sidewalk; people are homogenous. Everywhere there are the same attitudes and mindsets, simply reflected with multiple opinions. More importantly, almost everyone believes that they are the center of the social universe. Beginning college, I believed that people were going to be different, they were and they weren’t. Suddenly I started opening my eyes more to other social metropolises such as the aforementioned places. Once you begin exploring any center of the universe, you see what features each have and how to act accordingly. By going to college, I have begun the path to understand all of the centers of the universe and how to behave to rise among their ranks.

I would tell myself that college is a challenge and requires 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} effort. College shapes your life and career and you can't waste something that valueable. A lot of people will try to tell you that college is just like high school and you can get by on minimum effort, but they're wrong. When you graduate college, you should want to look back at your grades and accomplishments and feel proud of yourself and want to tell everyone how well you did. If you can't do this in college, then you've missed a big part of college and the ability to feel pride for your hard work. I would also tell myself that while college is difficult, it is also manageable if you are organized and manage your time well. Sometimes you just need to breathe and take it one step at a time.

Its about the music. I could say that one sentence to myself and turn away and I would be satisfied with my messege. In my senior year, I came to a point in which I was ready to give up on my dreams of music and join the Marines. I was a signature away when my father said to wait and try one last time. My entire senior year was riddled with, do I do this, or do I do that, that I never really enjoyed it or the music. In the end, I would want to remind myself just what I'm striving to do. What I love. Through the proccess I forgot to enjoy life and stressed about things like the military and colleges. But I know now, what its really all about. To me it is music, to another it could be math, or science, but in the end its about what makes you happy.

If I were given the opportunity to go back in time and talk to myself as a high school senior, knowing what i now know about college life and the whole college process, I would tell myself to do exactly what I did when I was a high school senior. I wouldn't change anything in my process in getting ready for college because I am happy where I am now. I love the college I picked and the major I am pursuing. I was on top of my game when I was preparing for college, so I was always on time with deadlines and the like. The only thing I would tell myself is to be more relaxed about the whole process, because I did have a tendency to worry too much. All in all, stay on top of all deadlines and just enjoy the experience, because it is surely one that won't be forgotten.