<p>Keep on doing what you’re doing. It works out great!</p>
<p>i would encourage myself to find the cauldron in the chemistry room that was rumored to give you extra IQ points and dunk my head in it. i never did find that cauldron and now im failing college.</p>
<p>Stay awake in chem, take physics, and actually do more than 25% of your homework the night before it’s due. Stop smoking so much weed, and start hanging out with a better crowd. Seriously, one of your “friends” will be dead in a year and another will have twice OD’d by the time you’re a hs senior. Just stop screwing up so much ok?</p>
<p>Work a little harder in AP Physics so you’re not completely petrified about taking physics next quarter.</p>
<p>If you don’t like something in the school, freaking change it. Stop trying to just slip under the radar. Don’t complain and then sit there. Ugh.</p>
<p>Work harder in science olympiad, especially senior year. It’s the one thing you’ll actually like in high school.</p>
<p>I would tell myself to do everything without any slack. While I did make stellar grades in high school, it could of been a lot better. I should have not let pop culture get me and lost my focus on the goals of schooling at times. Though I have no regrets, I do wish I would have listen to put 100% effort into my schoolwork. It was high-school level which makes it so much easier in retrospect. I know I could of gotten a 4.0 but I am happy with where I am at in life.</p>
<p>Ask out girls you like, probably would have had more than 1 relationship then (which didn’t start until spring of senior year, so it didn’t last). That would work for sophomore college-me too, should have realized I should ask out my best female friend before someone else did and now I have to see her with another guy, not fun.</p>
<p>Academically, stop procrastinating. But I still do that. And that it’s possible to get internships in high school, I didn’t know that back then.</p>
<p>Get over yourself. Appreciate the fact that although you are smart, there are and always will be many students who are smarter than you. And that’s a good thing, because if you were the smartest person in the world, there would be no one to learn from. </p>
<p>And learn from your failures. Failure hurts. But when you fail a test, don’t spend an hour crying and then throw the test away and pretend it never happened. What you fail a test, spend an hour crying, then get over it and figure out what you did wrong and how to improve.</p>
<p>BS more homework–meaning use time in a more engineering oriented way / spending time with friends for those social skills.
Take at least the Physics C mechanics exam as well as Calculus BC during junior year, as well as the Computer Science A exam at some point.</p>
<p>All or nothing: Don’t waste time trying for top 10 or earning acceptances to colleges you wouldn’t attend anyways.</p>
<p>Officer positions: Pick the right ones wisely for the learning experience (I wish I had more actually) and don’t be shy to step up to some positions. Also, ignore the prestige factor of it.</p>
<p>A not very prestigious college will disappoint on a competitive perspective, but it will still pay off tremendously with all of the effort done in high school.</p>
<p>@Mascara: I agree, Science Olympiad should’ve been more of a priority than the baloney of random AP classes. It actually further encouraged my path of being an electrical engineer through circuit lab :)</p>
<p>Take easier classes and focus on your state university and sign up for CBYX/german classes.</p>