<p>omg i totally agree witht he above comment. i, like many people at my high school, knew of only the ivies and the likes as being considered the 'good schools.' i regret not applying to more schools that i have recently learned about and deciding that i wanted to commute as a college student. now i want to transfer even though i really like the school i attend now.</p>
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My biggest regret is not exploring more college options or wondering what I really want to do in life, in junior year. Now I'm stuck going somewhere I'm not 100% fond of.
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I really was clueless back then, too. If asked about the status of career/life satisfaction once every decade, I doubt that many people would be 100% satisfied and not be second-guessing their decisions. It's never too late to make changes though. In fact, most people don't do the same thing for their entire lives. </p>
<p>On the college level, you might find you really like where you've chosen to go. You will probably change your major a couple of times, along with your career goals. That's okay. It's a process, not a finality.</p>
<p>Probably not sleeping enough. I've been too tired to do much of anything really.</p>
<p>not having asked out my gf sooner.</p>
<p>Not caring about my grades freshman and part of sophomore year. Im sure at a later point I will regret caring about my grades...())</p>
<p>Not studying hard enough
Not studying for SAT ii's
Not spending proper time of my college essays... think that might have cost me Cornell :-(</p>
<p>Dating! Bad idea and bad results. But that's a relatively small regret... I don't have a big one which I'm very grateful for :) oh and not exercising/sleeping/being healthy more. Staying up all night to talk is NOT worth losing your voice for a week afterwards.</p>
<p>"..hehe, goin' to HS is my biggest regret. :-)"</p>
<p>^hehhe i agree with that. I hated high school with a passion because a lot of people are soo unfriendly, and get caught up into "popularity".</p>
<p>I'm going to be a freshman at Harvard next year, but I really do regret never hitting the beach with my friends this year (I live in Florida).</p>
<p>Not giving schoolwork my 110%. I never knew how much potential I had. People always saw that potential in me, but I guess I just kept letting them down. Gah.</p>
<p>taking too many hard APs junior year...i forgot that i had to leave room to breathe when i signed up for them....and biggest regret: doing like crap in my ap classes ...and the horror that people who will take 1 easy ap senior year (which they will make a huge deal about) will get into my top choice over me because they focused on maintaining their gpa rather than trying to learn something....it annoys me because college admissions people will see what i took and think that i was just trying load up on APs when i was actually just trying to learn more because i cant stand classes that waste my time...and i wish i had left more time for my friends....i drifted apart from my real friends and spent more time just studying with people in my classes that i had less in common with...and i wish i had gotten to know more people in my grade because next year when the seniors are gone, most of my friends will be too, but since i took higher level classes i got to know people who were two years ahead of me, and one year ahead of me....but i guess ive kind of learned my lesson ...maybe i should take it a little easier in college and leave time for people...but no time right now..i need to study :o</p>
<p>Most colleges don't think you're loading up on APs. They like people that challenge themselves to learn. One easy AP in senior year versus 4 or 5 junior year, there's no comparison. They WILL take the one with the harder course load because they know that that person will make better use of the services and courses they provide. They don't want people who take the easy way out, and take no risks.</p>
<p>not trying as much as i did in middle school
damn....</p>
<p>1) Playing way too many video games freshman year. "cured myself" from that, (now in college i am proud to say I haven't played any video games :) )</p>
<p>2) Not joining this white/maroon guard thing. I was a replacement for a few games and it showed me just "awesome" it was to be involved in school spirit (aka football/basketball games).</p>
<p>Not finding out about CC beforehand, flaking off in junior year and dropping my self confidence, expectations, trust, and gpa by .3 </p>
<p>I am slightly glad I learned the serious consequences about losing sight of one's goal in HS, I am definately motivated to do better in College.</p>
<p>Regrets? Hmmm....going into junior year....
I'm not sure I have any regrets so far because I've learned from all of my mistakes (both social and academic).
I think I'd only kind of regret living so far away from my school b/c I don't get to hang out as much w/ friends and sometimes I miss out on things and feel like I'm not caught up socially. It all works out though, I guess b/c I always get verbal accounts but it can be really irritating. But I love my friends and I wouldn't have them at another school (my other choices for schools, as I now know, were terrible--I never wouldve been happy).
But it did teach me that I want to go away to college so I don't have to deal w/ that.</p>
<p>My deepest regret is having been so narrow minded in the 9th and 10th grade. I stuck to middle school friends and was not able to meet all these awesome new people. Later on, I befriended these great upperclassmen, but it was too late; they were going to graduate next year, and I would miss them all of my senior year.</p>
<p>Going into sophmore year: Not taking advantage of the opportunites I was given: Intradistrict Rep., Internships, Job Shadows, Community Service Opps., Sports (actually not much time to do sports), Chinese School, not getting ready for all-county band rehearsal or mock trial audition or actually working to be a better debater....</p>
<p>But we'll see how it goes...3 more years right?</p>
<p>taking lit ap instead of gov/econ ap.</p>
<p>not trying hard enough my senior year.</p>
<p>not practicing trumpet enough</p>
<p>i regret hanging out with the people i did. i didn't even like them at all. they were nerds. we never really ever talked to each other. </p>
<p>i should have hung out with the other group of people that wanted me there and who i had fun with and had more things in common with like sports and stuff and were cool and who i actually fit in with. i don't know *** i was thinking. i remember during lunch one day some people from the other group came to my group and physically tried to drag me to hang out with them. they came up to me and grabbed both my arms from both sides and they dragged me acrosss the concrete. but i resisted. i think my life would have been totally different. parties, girls.</p>
<p>but no. i CHOSE to stick with the people i didn't really like. omg.</p>