A Note to My High School Self

Class President, Co-Captain of the Swim Team, National Honors Society VP, lead in the musical, New York City bound? Looks as if you've got it all together. As a more mature (I use mature loosely) and experienced "you" I feel it is my duty to inform you (regretfully) that despite what you believe you know absolutely nothing about what is to come. College  (arguably the most frightening word in a high school student's limited vocabulary) will inevitably be the greatest 4, plus years of your young life - run towards it full force no matter how much the thought of leaving home panics you. It often goes that things are much more scary in thought than in reality. Study hard, make friends, and really think about what it is you want to do in the future because the whole transferring process is beyond stressful - gray hair inducing. The last and perhaps most important nugget of knowledge I can provide you with is "Be who you are, not who people want you to be or who you think people want you to be"- Harlen Cohen. The true you is pretty damn great. Now go take the city by storm.