<p>i'm a senior, and i really feel like i didn't maximize my high school experience. i probably could have had a lot more friends, could have been a lot more places, and could have had a lot more fun, and i still probably would have done just as well in school. </p>
<p>i went to a HS party for the first time last night, and i had tons of fun, even though i was more on the sidelines of the party as opposed to really being in the mix. it made me think, "so this is what everyone else has been doing after football games for the past 4 years, and i've just been going straight home after to watch TV by myself???"</p>
<p>it almost kinda hurts to think about it. maybe i shouldn't have gone, i wouldn't have known what i've been missing... i don't want to spend the rest of my life feeling like this</p>
<p>i wanna know... should i really regret what i missed these past 4 years, or will college be even better? will i just forget about what happened in HS? or do these feelings of "regret" linger on after HS and maybe into adulthood??</p>
<p>Take that regret and use it to change in college. So you didn't go to parties in a high school and regret it, you can't change that now, but you CAN change once you get to college. Just work to find more of a balance later on.</p>
<p>I'd be upset too if I went home right after football games to watch TV by myself. Luckily I go home right after school to read books by myself. PHEW! Dodged the bullet on that one...</p>
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I'm sure it hurts now, but in 2 years you won't give a crap about what happened in high school.
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well that's good news... you always hear people saying "i wish i would have done bla bla bla.... when i was in HS" but i guess those are the people whose lives sucked after their HS years. </p>
<p>i guess unless you go to community college, you have no reason to look back after HS.</p>
<p>Wow op, sometimes i felt the same way sometimes. when i did attend those parties though, i felt guilty about not paying enough attention to my studies. so i wouldn’t feel bad about it if i were you. think about it this way–almost everybody have their regrets about high school. if you had partied more, you’d still have regrets, just different ones. </p>
<p>you’re going to Columbia! i’m sure you’d find lots of ways to have fun there.</p>
<p>In the end it is just high school and your life is completely ahead of you. But, I understand where you’re coming from. I completely regret alot of my high school experience and upon going to college I realized this. I’m glad I got the opportunity to realize this and make the most of my life though. Don’t get down on yourself about high school though, you were young…I thought the things I did were completely reasonable but looking back now that I’m older I realize such thoughts were foolish.</p>
<p>Yeah no biggie man. H.S. party life is for people who don’t have much to look forward to in life. You still have at least 10 years of awesomeness.</p>