- Your happiness and wellbeing is not dependent on making that A. - Feel free to cut back your credit hours, work hours, study hours in order to take time for yourself. - Sometimes things occur in life and you HAVE to take a break from school; that's okay. Education will always be waiting for when you're ready. - Make sure you're taking time to grow smarter and stronger as a human-being; grades really don't define you in the real world and neither do pretty notes. You have an obligation to grow into a resourceful and savvy adult, nurture that aspect of your life. - Surround yourself with the people who make your life brighter, who bring the sunshine even when it's raining; those are the people who are going to recharge you when you fall, burnout, and make mistakes. - and it's okay to need those people. It's okay to need and ask for help. That's why you're here after all. Stay in the kind of community that wants to see you succeed but also wants you to be healthy doing it. At the end of your life it's your friends and loved ones that will have made your life worth living, not a standardized grading scale. - Finally, study hard, play hard, sleep hard, and love harder, always. Especially when that love is directed at yourself. You're going places, we can see it happening before our eyes, you can feel it in your gut, don't jeopardize it because you forgot to love yourself and take care of your mind and body. - You are responsible for your body and mind, strengthen them so that you don't have to have perfect notes and grades. Find what matters in the present so that your future isn't better than what you're living now.