<p>I got a C in a 4-unit class in my first semester. It is a class that if you know how to use excel and access, you get A, yet I missed the final because I overslept. Yes, I overslept on the final day. Unfortunately, the class was uc-transferable, and it screwed up my gpa badly. I had straight A’s for the next 3 years, and ended up with 3.8 gpa. sigh. and got rejected from Cal. seriously, I would have gone back to my country if ucla had not accepted me.</p>
<p>I also regret oversleeping and subsequently missing exams. It happened to me like 3 times during cc. Do yourself a favor and never take an 8am class, especially if you live 30 minutes away.</p>
<p>I would say that I had no regrets and everything was a learning experience, but there was one particularly stupid thing I did and never should have. Despite my friends telling me not to, and despite a teacher telling me not to, I took Calculus 1 as an online class with the laziest teacher at my college. There was no online classroom thing, you just had to do this list of homework problems and show up once a month for tests. </p>
<p>Dumb. Dumb idea on my part. If I hadn’t been so arrogant I wouldn’t have been 1 semester behind in my math, which took 3 years as it was!</p>
<p>The second runner up would be sitting next to my best friend in assembly programming class. We distracted ourselves so badly that we both ended up dropping it because we had no idea what we were doing, and programming is one of my favorite subjects!</p>
<p>Hmm. When I went back to school I was working full-time and so I started off with a 3-unit night class and a 3-unit online class. I wish I had looked more carefully into university prereqs because while both satisfied IGETC areas, neither satisfied any specific prereqs. I wish I had swapped one of them out for Programming I instead of having to take it now, when I have so many other courses to deal with. That might have given me some of the tools I needed last summer to work on a web project I’ve had on the back burner for some years now.</p>
<p>I wish I had grabbed an engineering class last Spring, even though I wasn’t 100% certain I was prepared to go into engineering at the time. I didn’t realize my CC only offers them once every four semesters, and so my only option this semester was to study on my own and try to challenge for credit by exam. Now I’m up against the end of the semester, the school is shutting down during the summer for budget reasons, and I’m rushing to cover the material for the challenge exam next week, which is kind of stressful. UCD wants me to get a B or higher and I don’t have any way of knowing exactly how prepared I am for the exam. I’m confident but far from certain, which is stressful.</p>
<p>But overall things have gone fairly well and I don’t have any major regrets.</p>
<p>My biggest regret was having a boyfriend while attending community college.</p>
<p>CaliMade are you male or female?</p>
<p>@babyavery
Female… Females do have boyfriends</p>
<p>I regreat taking History and Poli Sci classes.</p>
<p>Doing tap, and not selecting an alt. major. I know I only want to study my major, so I wouldnt have gone JUST to be at ucla, but it would have felt less ****ty than being outright rejected…</p>
<p>Taking prereq non credit math classes at my cc…(took the for credit class at ucla extension)</p>
<p>I regret not dropping an English course in which I got an “F” in. I got a “B” or an “A” in EVERY other class the rest of my time at CCC.</p>
<p>i regret not taking my intermediate classes before i started cc that pushed me back a little and then some hard classes got me with my GPA. i think i couldve done better in my bio classes but i had family issues going on and distractions…probably couldve transferred out in two years than three.</p>
<p>I regret not dropping an English course in which I got an “F” in.</p>
<p>Self’d</p>
<p>I regret ****ing around the first couple years I was taking classes at my CC. Now I have a bunch of W’s to overcome when I apply to grad school…</p>
<p>I also regret being too ambivalent about where I wanted to end up and not bothering to TAG when I had the opportunity. It would have saved me SO much anxiety in the long run.</p>
<p>Oh, and not discovering the Rate My Prof website sooner. It would have saved me from some epically crazy/evil instructors, and my GPA would be higher.</p>
<p>I regret not planning my schedule better when I started CC. I was initially just taking a few classes here and there while working, and I wasn’t careful about completing my math requirements early. Now I have to take physics at UC instead of already having completed it.</p>
<p>If I’d planned things out, I could have taken lower division bio courses not offered at my CC at another nearby CC as well. I would be more prepared for my first year at UC next fall if I’d done all that, because I’d have all of my lower division classes out of the way.</p>
<p>I regret not having taken the first UC transferable English course. I’m using a mediocre “3” on my AP English Lit exam to fulfill the requirement, but I really don’t know what grad schools will think of this.</p>
<p>I regret taking calculus the first semester. I got a C and found out I didn’t even need it for my major (psych and social behavior at UCI) -______-. Thank goodness I didn’t really listen to the counselors, most had ridiculous “advice”. Figured it out all on my own…</p>
<p>You need calc for psych depending on what type of psych/school you’re going into. I’m pretty sure some schools require it(maybe not UCI) but I know for sure Cognitive B.S does, which is understandable why your counselor could have mixed it up.</p>
<p>“which is understandable why your counselor could have mixed it up.”</p>
<p>If the counselor happened to be his alcoholic uncle Bernie, then yeah, understandable. This was a paid professional.</p>
<p>Thanks viral, really appreciate your keen insight. Not sure what this board would do without you!</p>