What is one piece of advice you would give your high school self

Is there any advice you'd give to your high school self?

Preserve all those little scientific theories of yours. You made awesome discoveries and inventions back then. So start filing them. Do not share them with anyone let alone your now-best friend. He is going to steal them.

Don’t stop watching Anime. They build your creativity and out of box thinking capabilities. Complete the Dragon Ball fan-fic you started. Watch Naruto. Also, take your recent work, the detection novel series, seriously. Writing plays a greater role in your future. You are going to write a sci fi novel in future. Seriously.

Get over the obsession. Yea, Chicken Biryani. I’m struggling to do that now. So please start earlier. -_-

You are born a night owl, a nocturnal human. So don’t listen to people who call you sick cause you don’t like to sleep at night. Cause you get used to sleeping during daytime in the future. Trust me, I know.

Do not doubt your decisions. Screw the wish to win others’ approval. They are neck deep with their own issues and being of their world and being cool to them means really ‘nothing’. You are a better human than me. Yea, I discovered that people love you more than me. You are lot interesting than me. Right now, you are an awesome dude where I’m a normal guy playing nice with a rugged life because you doubted your own self in the coming future. So don’t do that. Your intuition is the best compass you have, not your morality let alone other sickos around you.

And… ditch your so called ‘best friend’/ brother-in-arms. You consider him a bro but he takes you as granted and is going to betray you cause you turn emotional instead of being mad at him when you discover truth. Don’t just make someone your bestie because you sit in the same class or get same marks/grades/ most of your friends are mutual. Your high school arch nemesis has the same number of mutual friends. I hope it’s clear now. Choose friends wisely based on their character but not their skills.

Start preparing for the rough world. Start getting out of comfort zone slowly. Out there it’s cold and dark but full of real and risky adventures- the kind we both love!

Last thing… take my advice so that you won’t be in a state to answer the same question in the way your 20 y old self did. Now go get to work.

What advice would you give to your high school freshman self?

Follow your passions, and success will find you.

In high school, I participated in many extracurriculars because I thought that doing so was the only way to get into a top college. Having just completed my freshman year of college, I now know that this is not the case.

Instead of joining every single high school extracurricular, many of my college peers found interests outside of school. They participated in unique opportunities such as research, internships, non-profit work, and start-ups.

Even more important was the passion that my peers had for their projects. They crafted poignant college essays about these experiences, while I struggled to muster up 250 words about Model UN or math team.

High school should not be the time to pad your academic resume. You should instead focus on finding projects and creative outlets that you can build over the course of four years.

I wish that I could advise myself to use my four years in high school to explore, rather than subject myself to a pointless academic boot camp of my own creation.

What's the best advice you'd give your high school senior self?

I’d tell myself not to take drunk every weekend and try to be cool.

I’d tell others that nothing they do Grade-wise will improve their college placement, what with early admission and second semester grades not being looked at anyway.

I’d say: intensively practice your foreign language; try to get 4’s on AP tests; read difficult-but-lucid writers. Eliminate from your brain any tendency to want to major in Sociology, Anthropology, and English, along with anything, ANYTHING called “Studies.”

Consider a “gap” year spent in a foreign country.

Consider applying to a Canadian college or university. UBC is dynamite.

Decide how you can be useful in ten years. Our healthcare system is a mess. It needs new thinking, particularly as our population ages. Privacy is a big issue now and will only become bigger. I could go on and on.

Or, be an HVAC technician. Or a carpenter. Seriously. Why pay 160,000 and lose four years of earnings? Good working hands are always in demand. But keep reading and thinking.

What is one piece of advice you'd give to your younger self in love and relationships?

From my experience I would tell my younger self to definitely hold out. Make him wait for all physical intimacy for at least 9 months. This will show how much he cares and will also show his intentions with you. If he waits, it also shows he has respect for you and that there is golden.

If you could go back, and give your high school self one piece of advice for choosing your future career, what would it be?

I would love to go back in my high-school time.. And more than that i would love to meet my high school self…

Because i was so much fun that time.. I was so fearless,persistent and confident about my future..

I used to think i can do anything I'll dream of…

And now.. After only 4 years.. I am nothing like that. I am afraid, unstable and everyday morning i try to persuade my self that everything is right and I'm gonna achieve everything i ever dreamt of..

So a very single advice i want to give my high-school self is..

“don't ever change yourself you are perfect this way.. And i love you”

What is one piece of advice you would give a high school student who wants to become a doctor?

I’m sorry if I offend you in my answer; I don’t intend to be hurtful, only brutally helpful.

Why do you want to be a doctor? Money? Prestige? So you can tell your crappy high school biology teacher “I told you so”?

Or is it because you have an innate desire to do good in this world; to put others before yourself day in and day out; to sacrifice years of your life in school and years of your life after school to see others able to spend more time with their loved ones?

I don’t mean to be discouraging, but the best advice I can give is to make sure that you’re seeking the profession for the right reasons. Too many people don’t and then feel like a failure when they end up wanting to quit, or don’t get a high enough score on their MCAT, or end up hating their job even after they’ve made it.

Best of luck.

If you could give one piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be?

I probably wouldn’t waste my breath— my younger self was pretty headstrong and self-assured. But if I had to, I would advise him to stay out of law school and get a PhD instead of a JD. I don’t think that’s necessarily “one size fits all” advice, but for me, I have found teaching much more satisfying than the practice of law. With a JD, my teaching options are limited. For example, while I can teach writing in law school, most colleges would not consider me to teach even freshman comp; I’m still two years of schooling away from getting a license to teach secondary school. One regional college told me that with my JD, I could teach political science— a non-lawyer’s perception of what a lawyer does. With a PhD, my teaching options would be/would have been much broader.

Life: What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self?

1. Everything in life is transient. Your failures, your stupidity, your doubts, your confidence, your fears, your defeats, your triumphs, your equations with people, your perceptions about life. Everything that has come to pass shall pass.

2. Have a little faith in yourself. Not everyday will be your best one. Not every person you meet would like you. Not every pursuit you undertake would lead you to success.But that shouldn't force you to think that the fault lies with you. It's okay to be feeling dejected because something didn't turn out to be as it was supposed to, in your head. Your faith should be stronger than the storm.

3. Read a lot. Trust me, nothing in this world is as beautiful and meaningful as reading. Surrender yourself to the book, its pages, its letters. When you read a book, you forego your existence for a while and embrace the lives of the characters of the book. By doing that, you get to live so many lives, experience so many emotions, get transported to so many different worlds. Books are more magical than magic itself. They can pull you out from the deepest of despairs and from the darkest of times. Always read something.

4. Value those who really love you.
 
There's one sad truth in life I've found
while journeying east and west
The only folks we really wound
are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know
and please the fleeting guest
but deal full many a thoughtless blow
to those who love us the best.
                                                  -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5. Play sports. Any sports activity can ignite a fire in you as no other thing can. They instill an indomitable spirit of competition, the ferocity to face a challenge in its eye, the humility of a win, and the courage and grace of accepting a loss. It is on a sports field that you learn how to fight the enemy within and outside.

6. Last but not the least. Never ever let the kid within you die.