<p>And please don't say anything stupid like "posting on this thread" or "talking to you" blah blah blah....</p>
<p>being born into this world.</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but I’ve had a conversation with someone in which he said there was a moment in his mid 20’s where everything just fell into place. All of his regrets and mistakes led him to become someone he was proud to be, someone that he would not have been otherwise.</p>
<p>Don’t regret; accept and then evaluate how to move forward.</p>
<p>Oh, sorry if that’s not a response you’re looking for. haha.</p>
<p>Not going into a dietetic program immediately after HS. Took me 2 schools and majors to figure things out, and will probably cost me an extra year in college at least.</p>
<p>I only regret the things I didn’t do.</p>
<p>If I were to dwell the couldas, shouldas, and wouldas, I can go all the way back to preschool. It’s better just not to think about it and accept the present for what it is.</p>
<p>aabbcc1789, don’t say that =(</p>
<p>The things I regret are things that I didn’t do, not what I’ve already done. I kind of wish I could start college over again from scratch since I’ve taken pointless classes that I end up doing average in, screwing up my GPA. =</p>
<p>I agree with Mono</p>
<ol>
<li>Done better in middle school so I could’ve gone to a top, public high school that just accepts top students after a test and interview. </li>
<li>Done better in high school so I could’ve qualified for a scholarship when I applied to colleges. </li>
<li>Done better on the SAT’s and actually listened during my SAT prep class that my parents paid $1k. </li>
<li>Didn’t quit football after my freshman year, didn’t quit track after my junior year, and didn’t slack off in the weight room after my junior year. </li>
<li>Had a job in the restaurant/hotel industry. It sucks not having any work experience on your resume when your a sophomore in college…</li>
</ol>
<p>I wish I had considered a professional career in bank robbery. No kidding. I always wondered how different my life would be if I spent the last year acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to pull off a professional heist instead of submitting boring old college applications.</p>
<p>Pretty much what Jim said, change football to tennis, remove track. And remove #5.</p>
<p>Wish I had done all that, and wish I’d have joined the military out of high school.</p>
<p>doing better in high school, so i could of graduated top 10% and gone to the school of my choice.
getting into the modeling industry at 16.
i’m 18 now…should i even bother??</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Not wearing more sunscreen when I was younger and more active in the sun. It seems silly, but it might be to blame when I’m old and covered in wrinkles :(. Now I wear sunscreen every day :p. Spf 55!</p></li>
<li><p>Somehow accumulating $7.17 in various coins (from change) since coming to college. I have trouble using it all up >_<.</p></li>
<li><p>^ Actually counting up the coins and wasting a good ten minutes making neat little piles and… I’ll stop there :p. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>Other than that, I’m fairly content with life :).
Although, I do wonder how my life would have turned out if I had followed my childhood fantasy of joining the air force, and attending an air force academy. Hmmm…</p>
<p>My biggest regret is ending up in the situation I’m in right now which I’m trying to make the most of.</p>
<p>I grew up with parents who are religious fundamentalists and extremely controlling. I don’t turn 18 until end of freshmen year which makes it worse. I wish I had worked harder in HS and gotten a full scholarship to the State school; instead I got a lot of partial scholarships. My EFC is high so need-based aid is minimal. I ended up attending college on a merit scholarship which left me dependent on my parents. My first semester, I lived at home which is an hour an 10 mins away from school, and commuted 6 days a week for classes, while working 24 hours/week at a job in my hometown, because I had to contribute to college costs. And my parents were really controlling because they wanted me to have no social life, for insane reasons I won’t go into, so I had no social life and made like 1 friend, who then left to study abroad. My grades went down the toilet and I was really miserable. </p>
<p>So, my #1 regret is not working harder in HS - I could’ve gotten a full ride to the state school. I wouldn’t have had to live at home, commute crazy hours and work so much; I could’ve made friends, had a high GPA and been happy. My grades are important to me because I wanted to go to graduate or medical school but that probably won’t happen now. When I look at all of my friends from HS and see how happy they are, I feel really jealous.</p>
<p>I agree it’s not good to dwell on your regrets too much. :)</p>
<p>sold mo rocks so I could have dat cash in abundance</p>
<p>Not getting awesome volunteer projects and work abroad and other extra curriculars when I was younger. If I had done that, I could’ve received way more scholarship money. No biggy, just kinda irksome. I have no life-crippling regrets.</p>
<p>Since this made its way back to the front…</p>
<p>As much as I hate to say it, I can think of one person who I wish I had never ever ever ever had the misfortune of meeting. I’ll take personal responsibility for most of what happened with him/her but it would’ve been great if I never had to deal with it in the first place…and I’m still dealing with the mental anguish it left behind. Meh. Where’s a time machine when I need one. >_></p>
<p>Well mine isn’t so much of a regret as a “I wish I could have”…
I wish I could have grown up in the United States. I wish I could have had the opportunity to go to a competitive high school where I would have been challenged instead of a school where I was just allowed to float at the top (my high school had no AP’s or anything like that so now I feel really behind in the US college system). I believe that my high school experience led me to settle for mediocrity and even my parents pushing me wasn’t enough because I just didn’t find the work interesting. Sometimes I still find myself just settling, but I’m working on that now…</p>
<p>As a previous poster stated, only regret what you haven’t done. I know many times as a youth I wouldn’t do things because I was afraid of failing and what other people might think.
Biggest lesson in life - don’t worry what other people think!</p>
<p>During my first month of HS, I was presented with the opportunity to participate in a new magnet program offered through a competing high school. Rather than spend years in HS, I would be allowed to take exams for classes at the pace that I deemed fit. My HS was deplorable; no AP classes, bottom 10% of the state, etc. so I jumped on the opportunity to get out as quickly as I could.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I didn’t learn until after finishing (in 3 months) that the classes I had scored A’s in would only be counted as 3.0, 2.0 for lab classes. My immediate reaction was to want to go back to a conventional high school and do it properly, but because I’d passed the equivalent classes, I couldn’t go back and do them again.</p>
<p>Because my gpa was poor, I was pretty much locked out of the schools that I wanted to attend. Another problem related to going to the magnet school (which I don’t want to go into too much) made even the second tier schools I applied to rescind their admissions, and I ended up going to my state uni. I hate it here; I haven’t made any friends in two years, and my classes are awful. It probably doesn’t help the friend situation that I never went to HS; as an ASD person, getting that social interaction practice probably would have meant a great deal more to me than to most. I’m trying to transfer to a better school, but with my HS record, and a less than stellar college gpa affected by psychotic depression, my chances are pretty bleak. </p>
<p>In short, I made one decision in my first year of HS that irreparably ****ed up my entire life. Go me.</p>
<p>Mmm yeah, I’m done being an emobear now.</p>