<p>Ok im a junior, and i can think of a lot of advice i would give to a freshmen or to sophmores. Do you seniors/grads have any advice you can give to us juniors? Things you would have done differently etc. </p>
<p>For example, I just read that it is a good idea to spend a few weeks perfecting you essay vs. just one week or one night. </p>
<p>Do you have any advice? Thank You!</p>
<p>junior year will prolly take a couple years off ur life</p>
<p>ya, i think it already has</p>
<p>"Things you would have done differently etc."</p>
<p>I would've spent less time on CC, for starters. :-) [I'm only half-joking.]</p>
<p>I don't know. My approach to high school was, in retrospect, pretty solid; I tried my best to enjoy it. I was never a hardcore academic, but I studied and did my work because I was in love with what I was learning. </p>
<p>My best advice would be to avoid doing things for the sake of getting into a top college. If you want high school to be that time of self-discovery, as it has the potential to be, I think you should devote a fair amount of time to, you guessed it, discovering yourself. If you're someone who LOVES studying all the time and whatnot, absolutely go for it; but I suspect that many people are not like this, and that's okay, too. Find something you love to do outside of the classroom, and to the best of your ability, do it. Whether it's music, football, activism--you'll know you love it when the energy you want to devote to it seems inexhaustible.</p>
<p>I think what marked graduating from high school for me wasn't that I was going to Harvard, but that I knew I accomplished great things in high school because I wanted to, because I enjoyed doing what I did and was generally happy all four years; where I went to college seemed, strangely enough, secondary to that. </p>
<p>And that, I think, would be my major advice. Oh, of course do well in school, get good grades, do well on the SATs, write good essays, etc etc etc.</p>
<p>hmm thats cool. i have to say that im enjoying high school. i never did (or am doing) anything i dont like. im having fun. im doing well in school, but im kinda worried about the sat (i only got a 2020 on the sat practice tests i took) anything i can do? oh well, aside from that im enjoying high school. thanks for reminding us about that. anything else? how bout some stuff related to getting in to harvard? thanks all!</p>
<p>and wow, i cant believe how much homework i have this year! its tough staying on top of it all.</p>
<p>Keep your grades up, and do what you love.</p>
<p>Sax is definitely right. I never did stuff to "get into the right college." I did stuff that I loved, and that is what the Harvard student body is - people who loved what they do OUTSIDE of the classroom. Very few people here are defined by academics. I love teaching and community service, so that's what I'm known for. Another person I know loves rock climbing, so he's known for that rather than his doing well in Physics 15 and Math 23. Another I know loves Asia, so she's in an organization that links Asia and America together - forget that she is also an all-star in economics.</p>
<p>Yeah. Do what you love, and even if you don't get into Harvard, it doesn't matter. Really.</p>