Start exercising now!
Find better advisers than the parents
Be more spontaneous.
Never drive impaired
Learn to invest.
Don’t marry young.
Do your homework.
Trust your instincts
Date the nerd.
Are we allowed to comment on these??
It gets better.
Aren’t you awesome! 
Always think ahead.
Go to Woodstock!
Don’t start smoking
@VeryHappy sure you can comment!
Justamom- thank you for that.
Who would know when I was a social outcast high school kid who studied all the time (for lack of anything better to do) that I’d be a grandmother with a fantastic and supportive spouse, friends all over the world, a job I truly love and can’t wait to attack every morning, and an incredibly interesting life (even if confined now by Covid?)
It Gets Better. Indeed! But I never regret those books I read… and the only upside to quarantine/confinement is that I’m back to voracious reading!
And Huzzah for your button on thoughts and prayers.
Avoid bad boys.
“you go girl!”
17 was a very fun year, my senior year of high school. I understood HS grades did not matter for getting into our state flagship which all my family and 99% of my class attended. So I concentrated on my social life: college boyfriends and fraternity parties, out almost every night. I had a short school day, came home for lunch with my much adored, and adoring parents, watched a couple of soap operas with them and then took a nap so as to be rested up for the parties.
By summer I was really and truly and completely bored out of my mind and ready to move on.
Sometimes I wonder if my parents foresaw that result. One of many questions I wish I could ask them.
I wrote “Forget about boys” to myself several posts above.
I recently reread my journals from college and my twenties. Oh boy, was I obsessed with finding someone. What a waste of energy. I should have been focusing on my career and soooooooooo many other things.