<p>I've always kind of felt like I just never put in enough effort... and if I had had a better work ethic I would have done so much better in school.</p>
<p>Does anyone feel the same way? Not necessarily about school... but just in something in general?</p>
<p>I probably could have done more but I like being lazy.</p>
<p>Every. Day. I spend hours regretting past choices.</p>
<p>Also, I feel like my potential was lowered by a concussion in 6th grade. I’m crazy.</p>
<p>I feel like my potential hasn’t lived up to me :(</p>
<p>I agree with HarryJones. I’ve embraced my procrastination and have been focusing on being more efficient at it. I put in 100% of the effort that my lazy lifestyle allows, so I don’t really feel bad about the past. It is what it is, you know? I mean sure, one could assume things would be better if I weren’t so damn lazy, but that’s just not me, so things won’t be that way.</p>
<p>I could have become a USAMO qualifier, but instead I missed the AIME by a few points. :/</p>
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Oh totally. I always wonder if I’d be any smarter had I not been injured on my head so much as a child or accidentally inhaled so many toxic things or whatever else probably killed off some brain cells.
That’s deep, man.</p>
<p>I feel as though I haven’t lived up to my full potential in anything. I am nowhere near as good of a person as I should/could be, and no matter how hard I try to change that I cannot be satisfied with my efforts.</p>
<p>But I’m also an idealist, so I guess that could account for those feelings…</p>
<p>Looking back, I feel like I’ve made choices that will make getting into college harder. I chose to only take one AP class this year (junior year) and took Honors History instead of APUSH because I didn’t think I could handle it. Now I wish I had tried, even though I’m swamped with work and school the way it is.
I always wonder if I should have taken on more work. :(</p>
<p>I will forge my own future. I don’t need a “potential” telling me what to do.</p>
<p>Ha ha. I’m the one who doesn’t even care anymore to stay in the 3.0 range, and will probably drop to 2.-something by the end of the year. Mind you, I know which college I’m going to, have my dorm picked out, know where to get a job from, will have $20,000 heading into college, And my school doesn’t check second semester grades. As long as I pass and graduate, I’m set. However, I constantly question my choice and direction. Something tells me this is how things were supposed to turn out for me, and it’s not that I wasn’t smart enough for a 4.0 or high rated college, but that’s not where I’m supposed to be. I don’t mean fate either… I just think the college I’m going to is better for me and what I want to do with my life, but sometimes I wish I could be going to Bennington or Middlebury.</p>
<p>Oh yes, grades do not reflect my intelligence. I have not had a girlfriend in 17 years, oh and I am still not able to drive.</p>
<p>From a college perspective, it sucks sometimes because I really lacked work ethic and it got me several B’s. So many opportunities wasted and I know it’ll get worse when the top students who worked really hard get into top colleges when I know I won’t. It’s just undergrad but I know I’m going to be feeling really envious when those classmates say they got into Princeton or whatever and I could’ve if I had just worked harder…</p>
<p>Yeah MAN
I got 6 D’S and 2 F’S</p>
<p>My gpa would make a good GOLF SCORE.</p>
<p>You think I can still go to harvard?</p>
<p>What’s the point in thinking that though?</p>
<p>If I actually tried in my classes instead of just coasting through them. . .I would have gone to UC Berkeley or even better.</p>
<p>Oh well. Life goes on.</p>
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Oh totally. I always feel like I never put enough effort into anything, and never take anything seriously enough which is why the end result isn’t as good as it could be. Everything’s so easy to coast through with mediocrity. 
This might also have to do with the fact that I never believe I’m good enough until the job’s actually done. My mom doesn’t do much to dispel that notion either. She’s never satisfied with anything I do and isn’t very encouraging either unless I’m on the point of a breakdown. Which I never am in front of her.</p>
<p>Ah, it felt good to let that out on an anonymous forum. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Yes… When I got an A on a test instead of an A+… I’m a failure…</p>
<p>Here’s my problem. I don’t feel as though I have lived up to my potential, but that’s only the start. I give myself an incredibly low potential to begin with.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 UW GPA and I take all the hardest classes at my school, but in all honesty, that doesn’t mean anything. In fact, getting into a great college will not make me feel any better about my potential.</p>
<p>Instead, what I see are people all around me that are unique and who seem to find a niche that I can never find. I can’t explain it, but I always feel an incredible sense of detachment. If I ever get too close to someone or begin to equalize my “potential” with theirs, I immediately shut myself down to avoid recognizing at some point in the future that I’m not as good as them.</p>
<p>Does that sound depressing? I’ve been trying to figure out if I’m depressed.</p>
<p>^I think that’s kind of like what I was trying to say. Here, I’ll give you a shoulder to cry on. :)</p>
<p>Nah, you’re not depressed. It’s called a ‘sense of self inadequacy’. In all honesty, the sooner you get over it, the better. Not that I think that’s going to happen very soon with me, but whatevs.</p>
<p>When someone goes “look at all that you’ve done, I couldn’t do half of it!”, what comes to my mind is “look at all that I haven’t done yet, and all those people who are still better, and I’m absolutely nothing compared to them”
And then when someone’s like “you must be so awesome, you got into all these great schools!”, I’m like, I don’t even think I’m all that great, the standard at these schools must be going down. And it’s even more irritating to find that students at your new school seem to think they’re the bomb just because they got in, and I realize that I’ve actually done more than them.</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>