<p>Are there any other students who have made a complete turn around since college began?
I'm by no means a genius per say, but I knew that I was very intelligent and that I could have at least gotten top 10%, hell even valetdictorian if I seriously tried at my very urban inner city high school. Instead I smoked a bunch of pot, never studied, skipped class and now I am miserable at my current school.</p>
<p>However I have made a complete 180 and made straight A's my fresh year, got involved, and actively trying to transfer into a top 20 school. My biggest regret is having to transfer in the first place knowing that I should have taken high school seriously.</p>
<p>I slacked off last semester and made two Bs. Never again. If I’m going to make a B, it should be because the class was difficult, not because I had other priorities.</p>
<p>Yeah I wish I had worked a lot harder in high school but alas I gotta live with the choices I make. I like my current uni though. I do regret commuting.</p>
<p>Starting college in California right after I recovered from my brain operation. I took 2 science classes for my general ed., I absolutely HATE science, it ruined my gpa, now a 2.5 overall, and now almost all California schools have business majors that are hard to get into with a damaged gpa. </p>
<p>After I recovered, I should have left, worked and gained residency in another state, and then started from scratch there. Now I’m about to be 23 in 2 weeks and I’m completely screwed for the next 40 years (Can’t find work to gain experience here either).</p>
<p>Not focusing on internships/money to pay back loans and instead focusing on extracurriculars (not my best decision, but I did learn a lot regardless)</p>
<p>That I didn’t join any clubs freshman year. I know that I would have met a lot of cool people (And the occasional jerk lol). Gonna be a sophmore this year and I plan to join like 2-3 clubs so that I can get myself out there.</p>
<p>I don’t know…I didn’t do well my freshmen year, moved back home to get out of a bad living situation, figured out that I didn’t want the career I was studying for, but as a result, ended up transferring into a pretty good school that gave me a cut in tuition. I can’t say those are regrets, because they led me in the right direction.</p>
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<li><p>Taking too many classes at once</p></li>
<li><p>Not dropping classes when I should have (I didn’t learn until too late that a W isn’t really that bad)</p></li>
<li><p>Not seeking help for my psychological issues early enough / pretending everything was “normal” for several years</p></li>
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<p>Regrets before college:</p>
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<li>And I sometimes get this awful haunting feeling that I chose the wrong college in the first place. What did I know back then in my senior year of high school? I was young and foolish, and thought that going to a college with a better name but worse degree opportunities trumped getting a degree with a more “definitive” end (i.e. engineering or pharmacy) from a lowlier school. I didn’t really know much about the different types of degrees either - all I was concerned about was “keeping up with the Joneses” and going to the “best” school I got into.</li>
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<p>Oh, well. I’m not going to think about this any more. I won’t dwell on the past; I’ll learn from my mistakes and go on. I’m striving to do the absolute best with the “hand of cards” I ended up with, go on with life, and hopefully get to grad school and succeed eventually.</p>
<p>I don’t regret working while in school, but I regret that I started to care more about work than school. I don’t know why I ever started to schedule school around work instead of the other way around. Luckily I was eventually able to change those habits.</p>
<p>I wish that I had gotten more out of my classes. Usually I would just do whatever I needed to do to get by without really paying attention to the material. I would get an A in the class and a month later forget everything we did, lol.</p>
<p>“I’m striving to do the absolute best with the “hand of cards” I ended up with, go on with life, and hopefully get to grad school and succeed eventually.”</p>
<p>I think this is one of the best lessons you can learn in life. It’s one I had to learn the hard way- things won’t always go as planned, and sometimes that’s a painful lesson to learn. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t make the best of it and have a fantastic life anyway :)</p>