#1 Regret in High School

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Moving between sophomore and junior years. Taking so long to develop some self confidence. God, if I could go back and grab freshman me by the scruff of the neck...this is almost 9 years later, of course.</p>

<p>Worrying too much about boys. They do eventually grow up and go for fun and exotic, rather than nice and conventionally pretty (big boobs).</p>

<p>I wouldn't have given up any of my activities, though. XC, Track, academic games, film club, NHS, forensics, both choirs, community and professional theatre and more....I'm just glad I didn't have to work.</p>

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<p>Not reading/studying/doing anything academic in HS and breezing by with a 3.0. Somehow I got into the college of my choice thanks to athletics, yet have since quit that sport and have focused on my academics and am currently riding by with a nice 4.0. I could've done it high school and really gotten into some awesome schools.</p>

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<p>? how is having a good time bad?</p>

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<p>"dank 08: wrote: hanging out with the wrong crowd. Putting popularity and having a good time before things that matter."</p>

<p>? how is having a good time bad?</p>

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<p>"fishie 11"
it's kind of funny/sad how half of the people regret not working hard enough and the other half regret not having enough fun...</p>

<p>JUST LIVE, LOVE AND BE HAPPY!"</p>

<p>Acually it was... 1/3 saying they should've worked harder, 1/3 saying should have more fun... and 1/3 giving advice. haha jk</p>

<p>Not finished with high school yet but im def. gonna have good time these last 2 years</p>

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<p>hmmm....</p>

<p>will come back to this thread in a year.</p>

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<p>Ironically enough, having regrets, dwelling, that sort of thing. Throughout high school, I've just learned to relax and move in life with a smooth direction.</p>

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<p>Well, you can reverse the trend of not being social enough in high school because 99% of the people there you won't being seeing again but you cannot reverse not working hard enough. So right now my regret is blowing my sophmore year because my GPA is really low.</p>

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<p>i regret not challenging myself enough in the first two years, though i thought i was being challenged because i was taking a few honors courses (i go to a public, non-competitive high school...a few honors courses definitely isn't enough for ivies!)</p>

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<p>Ruining my GPA first quarter Freshman year...Not taking APs sooner...Not working hard enough my first two years...</p>

<p>Working so hard that it's negatively affected my social life during my junior and senior years...</p>

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<p>I breezed through high school with all A's and never did much of anything (studying, hanging out with friends, etc) I started hanging out with my friends more in jr year, but I still never really studied. It hurt me when I got to the SAT (not really act though...they taught us that stuff in school.) I was admitted to pretty much every school I applied, but I can't help but feel that with a little effort I could have been going to HYPS (but maybe I still could have...I didn't apply)</p>

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<p>Model Congress in 10th grade...
some other useless 9th and 10th grade ecs.</p>

<p>not joining the track team sooner. not paying enough attention to my academics in 9th grade... (C+ in english first semester) not paying enough attention to my academics (for the most part just english) in 10th, 11th and 12th grades... Not taking an AP Science this year. Not taking AP Calc BC...</p>

<p>I have tons of regrets... but I guess it all worked out in the end. I got the Ivy league school i wanted, just not Stanford.</p>

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<p>I got no regrets... well Im still a sophomore though</p>

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<p>Focusing so much on getting good grades and doing well on the SATs. It ended up costing me my teen years. What would I have done differently? I would have socialized more: gone on at least one date (how pathetic. I'm going to an Ivy League school next year, I've got the 4.0, and SAT score I wanted, but I've never been on a date), attended at least one school dance, I would have taken AP Government instead of AP Chemistry, not applied to some colleges and would have applied to a couple of others, and I would have spent more time with my friends.</p>

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<p>Not applying myself--I might not have been val or sal at my high school, but I could have been in the top 3% had I bothered to try.</p>

<p>Not taking a math my senior year. I should have begged for a study hall in the back of the 11th-grade math class (only Algebra II back in the Stone Age), so I could understand the material better and keep my brain in the math. I ended up having to retake it in college.</p>

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<p>Biggest regrets: not studying for PSAT/SAT, moving to California, hanging out with the wrong people, being a lazy little fool in 9th grade, not transferring out of a bad teacher's class, hanging out with the wrong type of people, being lazy.....im a sophomore in high school and i hope i can reduce or not add to this list</p>

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<p>jissel....academics are the most important part of a student's first years of life..congrats by getting into an ivy-league....</p>

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<p>freshman year...not taking HS and GPA seriously...grrr</p>

<p>oh yeah and getting EXTREME senioritis >.<</p>

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<p>-Sticking with higher level math classes and getting bad grades instead of moving down a level for the same weighted credit.</p>

<p>-Not putting enough effort into college admissions.</p>

<p>How's this for irony, when I saw this thread I was listening to the song "No Regrets" by Aesop Rock.</p>

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<p>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.</p>