Today, marking a few days past from my ten year anniversary of graduating high school, I started to think of things I would have told myself back then if I could. Here goes...
- Go to school where you want to live. Recommendations and the relationships you make in college do not help very much when you live hundreds of miles away.
- Take more risks. There is no greater time to fail then when you are 18 without any real entanglements. It gets harder to run away to Europe when you have student loans to repay, rent, car payments...
- Travel! I studied abroad for a semester, and I loved it. It is the single best decision I have done with my life thus far. I wish I had stayed another semester! There is no better way to learn about yourself, then when you are thousands of miles away from anyone that has ever known you.
- Save money. This is mostly so again you can travel, but also for practical things like buying your first apartment. I wasted so much money on DVDs and food and things I don't even remember.
- Enjoy college, but remember what to take seriously and what not to. Have fun! This is the only time in your life you can do almost what you want with very few responsibilities, as well as take a bunch of interesting courses just because you want to and can. However, FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I really wish I went to school in New York or London and majored in something to do with television writing.
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