As an honor student all four years of high school, I learned a lot of things. How to write a research paper, how to manage my time, and how to put in as little effort as possible.

When I took honors classes, I was surrounded by kids who al wanted a high enough GPA to get into the college of their dreams. The problem was, no one wanted to work for it.

Before classes, we would congregate and ask who had read the assignment the night before, almost no one had. We would ask for answers from each other and question what the lowest grade we could get was without out dramatically depleting our averages. We became masters of B.S.'ing tests and essays to the point that one kid I know got the highest grade in his class on a Psych test even though the day before he had told me he had no idea what was going on in that class and he was going to B.S. his way out of it. It's an impressive skill, I should add, but not a valuable one.

And the problem with all of this is that we could get away with it. We could all still graduate with 4.2 GPAs (because they were weighted) and get into UPenn, Pitt, and King's.

Now I'm in college and I have no study skills. I used to be able to just go to class and never study and be in the top 10%. I can't do that here. I'm grateful for it. I need to learn how to work for my grades, but I wish I had learned before getting into college where me education, you know, counts.

So, seniors, learn study skills before college. They will help.

Also, schools, make the curriculum harder. Make students work for their high GPAs.