Tip One: Be
Realistic
You've been reading since you were two. You've been in a competitive dancing school since you were three. You've been playing piano since you were four. You've been playing tennis since you were nine. You skipped two grade and entered high school at age twelve. You've only ever taken honors and AP classes. You're a straight A student. You're the star of your high school's tennis, bowling and dance teams. You're president of the science club. You've done approximately two hundred hours of volunteer work at your local hospital. You've taken college courses at your local community college. You've won the Peace Maker award. You've found Amelia Earhart's skeletal remains while on vacation to Mexico. You found the cure for cancer in your senior year--
--Now you've woken up and you realize that it's report card day and you start writing your will because your parents are going to beat the crap out of you when they get home with your abysmal reprt card of three C's, two D's and an A--in gym.
With your grades, do you honestly think you can apply to Stanford? NYU? Harvard? Or any other Ivy League for that matter?
Lesson? Be realistic. Get out of your meaningless daydreams and get to work. Your record sucks, you've screwed up nearly seventy-five percent of your high school career, but there's still hope. Unless you want to wind up a a homeless person like my pal Sherman down the block with his two front teeth knocked out and a missing toe on his left foot, I suggest you do those summer assignments your mother has been bugging you to do, those assignments of which you vehemently argue do not exist.
You've been reading since you were two. You've been in a competitive dancing school since you were three. You've been playing piano since you were four. You've been playing tennis since you were nine. You skipped two grade and entered high school at age twelve. You've only ever taken honors and AP classes. You're a straight A student. You're the star of your high school's tennis, bowling and dance teams. You're president of the science club. You've done approximately two hundred hours of volunteer work at your local hospital. You've taken college courses at your local community college. You've won the Peace Maker award. You've found Amelia Earhart's skeletal remains while on vacation to Mexico. You found the cure for cancer in your senior year--
--Now you've woken up and you realize that it's report card day and you start writing your will because your parents are going to beat the crap out of you when they get home with your abysmal reprt card of three C's, two D's and an A--in gym.
With your grades, do you honestly think you can apply to Stanford? NYU? Harvard? Or any other Ivy League for that matter?
Lesson? Be realistic. Get out of your meaningless daydreams and get to work. Your record sucks, you've screwed up nearly seventy-five percent of your high school career, but there's still hope. Unless you want to wind up a a homeless person like my pal Sherman down the block with his two front teeth knocked out and a missing toe on his left foot, I suggest you do those summer assignments your mother has been bugging you to do, those assignments of which you vehemently argue do not exist.
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Hey,
y'all, so....it's been a while. A loooong while. I really apologize. I've been
on a three month hiatus and it was totally unannounced and I'm really
sorry for the abrupt absence.
What
you just read was a college survival tip taken out of my novel in the making College
Adventures with Sheila Green. In this story are 20 tips on how you high
school seniors out there can survive your last year of of secondary education
and walk into your first day of college with ease and some cautious
trepidation--just kidding! College is fantastic, but some youngsters, (look at
me talking about youngsters as if I wasn't in the same place a year ago, HA!),
enter college and just go absolutely nuts. Unless your like yours truly over
here, who for the first few months went the class and then went straight home,
you're going to need some advice, so SHANNON TO THE RESCUE!
These
tips are comedic, but the general message should be taken seriously. If there
are any seniors out there slacking, cut that out and get to work! It's August
and before you know it, those back-to-school commercials will be in your line
in vision when you're watching Pretty Little Liars or Switched at Birth or
whatever other show you youngsters watch these days, (there I go with the
"youngsters" again, hehe).
Over
and out!
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