<p>Currently a Junior in high School and feeling particularly existential.</p>
<p>I expect carpe diem, focus more on females, or something of that like.</p>
<p>Stay away from the drugs and booze; you’ll not only (almost) ruin your academic and athletic future, but you’ll end up so “perma-fried” that long after you’re sober, people will still solicit you for drugs. </p>
<p>Hang out with people you actually enjoy and not those who are ostensibly “cool.” </p>
<p>Stop comparing yourself to others, and stop trying to please everyone.</p>
<p>Focus on your school work.</p>
<p>Appreciate your parents more; try to understand that they’re people, too. </p>
<p>All that money you’re making at your job… save it. </p>
<p>Work on your social skills; you may be smart, but you won’t get far if you can’t communicate well with others.</p>
<p>Find out what really piques your interest, or at the very least, narrow your interests down; otherwise, you’ll end up wasting valuable time in college.</p>
<p>“That girl was probably into you”</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Don’t do all those drugs. At least wait until summer, so you don’t lose all your teachers/friends/classmates respect. It may just salvage your gpa, too. Once it goes down, it doesn’t come up much farther.</p>
<p>Don’t get so seriously involved with a man 14 years older than you. He doesn’t have your best interests at heart, just his. </p>
<p>In the same vein, you might want to just transfer schools after your freshman year. You could have done a lot more- including getting confirmed- if you had just gone to Catholic school. </p>
<p>Dye your hair red more often and ditch the black (also remember that platinum blonde on a natural brunette is rarely a good idea!!)</p>
<p>When it comes to morals, just keep doing what you’re doing. It’s worth it to still have self-pride:) </p>
<p>Oh, and don’t pick up drinking coffee. It gives you terrible migraines, one of which is going to last for about three months. It will ruin your trip to Europe, and terrify you and your family into thinking you have a brain tumor. (Seriously, just don’t do it, youngerPrincess!)</p>
<p>Stop procrastinating and study harder so you don’t graduate with a 2.65 GPA.</p>
<p>You should have tried out for Honor Choir.</p>
<p>Don’t lie to the cops; they’ll get you every time. </p>
<p>In general, try to keep your pants on.</p>
<p>Get involved at school; you’d be surprised how much fun things like Math Club and Quiz Bowl Club can be. </p>
<p>Don’t smoke cigarettes; your cardiovascular health will quickly deteriorate, and at some point you’ll start to murmur, “Bulls***,” to yourself every time you see a flight of stairs. </p>
<p>Keep in mind: If you have to do something to fit in, you probably don’t fit in. </p>
<p>Your choices do, in fact, effect others, so stop thinking otherwise.</p>
<p>Say or do something when you see someone being treated badly. Don’t sit back and do nothing because you’ll regret it later on.</p>
<p>Stand up for what you believe in.</p>
<p>Ignore people who worry about you going 10 hours away. You and your family are happy with the decision.</p>
<p>You’re smarter than you think you are; trust your own judgement sometimes.</p>
<p>Learn to speak up in class; you don’t want to still be working at that until the beginning of your junior year in college.</p>
<p>You’re not going to like everyone. Not everyone’s going to like you. Get over it, and live your life the way you want to live.</p>
<p>Sometimes people don’t understand your decisions. Unless there’s a good reason for it, you don’t have to answer to them.</p>
<p>You’re going to be fine on those AP tests. It’s better that you didn’t get credit for Theory I; just trust me.</p>
<p>You’re going to seriously change your mind about your career goals. Your school is still the best place for you, promise.</p>
<p>If you like a girl, don’t try to be friends first. You’ll get stuck in the friend zone. Don’t do any drugs except weed, and only do that like once every 2 weeks at the most. Its alright to get drunk with your friends. Drunken memories with your friends are the best. Also, keep your grades up. Its not so difficult to do crazy stuff on the weekend and get perfect grades. As they say, work hard play hard.</p>
<p>You have to play by the rules, you have to jump through the hoops they set up for you. It doesn’t matter that it’s stupid and you shouldn’t have to do it, and rebelling against the system won’t make it change, it’ll just make you a failure at college.</p>
<p>This is the only time in your life when you will be a legal adult getting full support from your parents to educate yourself for a career. Until you’ve actually been an adult, supporting yourself paycheck-to-paycheck and struggling to pay rent and buy groceries, you don’t appreciate the opportunity you had and that it only lasts four years. Screw it up, and you drop out of college with a massive chip on your shoulder.</p>
<p>Learn to like math, virtually every worthwhile major outside of medicine involves math.</p>
<p>High school was easy and you are NOT prepared for the difficulty of college physics, calculus, etc. You WILL have times when you spend ten hours on a Friday or Saturday night studying and finishing homework. It takes growing up. Do not shirk your studies, it is the main reason you are there. As I said, you will never again have the opportunity to go to college at zero cost to you.</p>
<p>Just remember that it takes growing up. When you are having a hard time at college, ask “do I want to be an adult or not?”</p>
<p>keep doing what you’re doing, high school me.</p>
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<p>this x10000000000</p>
<p>Save up your money - I know you are “rich” and all, but you won’t be in 4 years at college.</p>
<p>Don’t be such a wimp sometimes. It is worth it to take a risk</p>
<p>Guys don’t have cooties - you actually have more in common with them than you think</p>
<p>Act like yourself more. Speak up - you have opinions and it is okay to share them in a classroom setting</p>
<p>Keep doing what you’re doing - college is awesome and exactly what you hoped for!</p>
<p>Spend more time with him. He treats you like a daughter so make sure he knows you love him like a father. He’ll be gone far too soon. </p>
<p>You’ll be fine in college. Don’t listen to the people telling you that you’re wasting your life by not going to that other school. You’ll have no regrets.</p>
<p>Good job, bro.</p>
<p>It gets better after high school. Everything gets so much freaking better.</p>
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<p>I agree. I don’t know how many girls and people in general I’ve turned off when I was having a bad day. E.g. I’ll just ignore them, or say something nasty to them, or do something I otherwise regret.</p>
<p>Not even that, I’m pretty sure there were two rather cute girls who in retrospect were definitely giving me signs that they were interested in me. But I was too obtuse to notice :smack:</p>
<p>RoxSox, I agree.</p>
<p>Another bit of advice for my past self, should he ever invent a time machine to look into the future: LEARN TO COOK SO YOU DON’T SPENDS TONS OF MONEY EACH MONTH ON EATING OUT!</p>
<p>“Good thing I didn’t try.” </p>
<p>I hated my high school experience and I didn’t try at all. Total reverse now in college. I love it. Don’t have anything new to say to myself I were a high schooler again; it’s all the same, really…</p>
<p>Agree with the above poster’s comment on learning to cook. You don’t need to be a Food Network star, but some basics are nice to know.</p>
<p>“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” - This should serve you well as you deal with disappointments or setbacks in your life. Stay classy , work hard, and always have faith.</p>
<p>“Learn to make friends so you aren’t bored to death every time your roommates aren’t around”</p>
<p>“Don’t discover the pleasure of drinking alone”</p>