<p>“Don’t be whore. And if you ignore this advice, always use a condom.”</p>
<p>Make sure to care about Algebra I that you’ll be taking next year (as in, get an A).
Make sure to care about Geometry that you’ll be taking in 8th grade (as in, get an A and don’t rush the midterm even though you’re going to Mexico to see family you haven’t seen in over five years).
Don’t worry about middle school courses ('cept for Algebra I, Geometry, and Spanish I – they don’t appear on your high school transcript.
Study for the SAT, sign up for a course in Stanford EPGY.
In the future, you’ll move to Miami, where students are ahead of you in science by two years. Take Biology Honors and Chemistry Honors the summer after Freshman year so you’re prepared in Miami.
Also take Pre-Calculus over the summer so when you arrive in Miami, you can do Dual Enrollment in Miami Dade College and take Calculus I in the fall, Calculus II in the Spring (alongside another course of your choice) so you can really start getting ahead of the game.
Realize the first year in your school in Miami, you’ll be in some weird program only certain schools in FL practice, so start self-studying AP tests.
Freshman year, study for the AP Human Geo exam. While a 4 is good, most students get a 5, so even a 4 is not exactly admired…and get As! Algebra II is just following what the teacher says – not a lot to understand to pass with an A. </p>
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<p>and relax while you’re doing it. It’s not like you’ll be some super social kid anyways. -_-</p>
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<p>Word for word!</p>
<p>“It’s all going to go terribly, terribly wrong.”</p>
<p>“Start caring for school from now. And start thinking about colleges seriously, great grades only don’t get you in Harvard.”</p>
<p>6 years ago…</p>
<ol>
<li>It’s perfectly okay for not being in any honors classes</li>
<li>Go see more movies, enjoy life, and school is not important at this moment</li>
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<p>If you stop caring so much about what people think, everything else falls so perfectly into place. Stop trying to whitewash your personality, because you’re making yourself into a personification of nothingness. If you show your true colors, you’ll lose the support of people who like you better as a benign entity, but you’ll gain the support of a select group of people, and these are the people who you truly want surrounding you in life. You’re not going to be the most popular, you’re not going to be homecoming king, but you’ll look back on high school and be happy about what you were to so many people, and that’s what counts.</p>
<p>Don’t be so eager to abandon the present and yearn for the future. Yes, you’ll get free periods in high school, but you’ll spend most of them doing homework. Yes, you’ll get a drivers license and a car, but you’ll be driving mostly to school and work. Yes, there are benefits to growing up, but you’ll look back on the past with a strong contempt for the fact that you didn’t know just how good you had it. Though I’ve only lived for 18 years so far, I’ve encountered no exceptions to this rule.</p>
<p>If you work your hardest, put your best foot forward, and attain a GPA of, oh say, 96, there will always be a kid who breezes by with a 97. If you get, I don’t know, a 2240 on the SAT, there will be countless kids with 2300s. If you struggle with a topic, but you maintain your integrity come test day, there will always be a kid of weaker morals with a cheat sheet in his pocket; probably sitting right next to you, possibly even the eventual valedictorian (not that you heard it from me). There will always be someone who gets the express lane to the fruit of your struggles, but you gain character from the experience that no amount of cheating or innate skill can duplicate.</p>
<p>Finally, there will be a handful of times in the coming years where fate seems to step in just like it does in the movies. You can rebel against it like I did, but you’ll spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been.</p>
<p>all men are evil.
and you’re awesome for not caring about school until freshman year</p>
<p>On August 2nd, 2008, while you’re sitting in the teacher break room before the end of the first job you ever had, call your grandmother at 11:45 and talk to her for a long enough time that no one smashes into her car and kills her. Or long enough so that even if it still happens, at least you got to call her.</p>
<p>The summer of 2007 is going to be horrible. There’s nothing you can do to change it, but prepare yourself.</p>
<p>I know your Algebra I teacher sucks, but try really hard. Get A’s.</p>
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<p>:(
i’m sorry</p>
<p>-Go to a different high school
-your high school counselor will be horrible and take honors classes sophomore year
-Stop video games</p>
<p>“Your life won’t exactly be like how you are planning, at this exact moment. You won’t go to that college you are dying to go to at this moment. You won’t even go to the high school you wanted to go to FOREVER; and you should go to that hs-it’s a better fit. Everything will work out. Don’t be so concerned with what other people think, enjoy what you do, and hang out more with [good friends then]. Don’t let them go.”</p>
<p>Six years ago: </p>
<p>“Yes, they are going to re-elect him. But then there’s gonna be a really cool black President! First, though, we’re going to Iraq for a bit.”</p>
<p>“Pay attention when they teach you basic algebra, you twit. I really could’ve used the background for all subsequent math classes.”</p>
<p>don’t take AP Chem when you’re a senior in high-school. Take anything else instead.</p>
<p>Learn karate and never take AP Bio</p>
<p>“Be ready for high school. As soon as you get to school, SWITCH OUT of your Freshman English teacher’s class. And remember not to take Honors Chemistry since you have zero background in that subject.”</p>
<p>Also I would tell myself a crap-load of great investments to make so that I could become rich :)</p>
<p>I’d turn my little twelve year old self into a bonafide nostradamus and clean up on every non-random (as in subject to the laws of psychohistory lololol) but as pf yet unpredictable gamble and investment known to man. </p>
<p>Also, become a faux-leader for those bloody college apps!</p>
<p>I’d also outline the problems with the ethical, epistemological, and ontological positions I held back in the day and save myself some time, lol.</p>
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<p>…why didn’t I think of that.</p>
<p>don’t join CC…</p>