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By China at 10:31 AM

In one of my classes in high school we had to do several projects that we're mocking real stages in our lives. One of them was college, you had to go through and look at colleges and choose your major and where you would live and what classes you would take to graduate and internships (and they had to be real) and make a budget. It actually was a really interesting and helpful project because we were so close to graduating and I still have my project that I follow today (maybe one day I'll go back and tell my teacher about it and give her a big hug).

The next project we had to do was for when we were seniors in college (pretending obviously) and we were about to graduate and we had to plan out what kind of jobs (and actually look online for job listings and interviews) where we would live, health insurance, if we would marry and how much money we would make. It really did go into depth and give you a dose of reality. You also had to get a mortgage and a car and insurance on your home and car.

The last project we had to do was two parts. The first was your dream job. You had to talk about what is was and the steps you would take to get there and achieve all of your goals and the second part was starting your own business. You had to come up with a phone number and a name and clients and obviously what kind of business. I just learned about this website Tollfreenumber.ORG that tells you everything you need to know about toll free numbers and how to even go about ordering one for yourself or your business. It really would have come in handy if I knew it when I was doing my project though.

I think overall though these projects were really hard and time consuming, but extremely helpful. I feel like in high school (especially where I went) you are in a tiny bubble. Our parents did everything for us from making our lunches (yes in high school) to driving us around and buying our cars and gas and obviously paying for everything. So we really didn't grasp the understanding of paying our own bills or getting a mortgage until this project. Even though it only got our feet wet a little bit, I really do feel ahead of the game.