<p>Do you have any regrets?</p>
<p>I regret not talking to certain females. And how some friendships ended. And I wish I had a better relationship with teachers, getting to know them.</p>
<p>I like this thread idea :)</p>
<p>I regret being so caught up in catty freshmen fights and gossip. I regret putting friends and social reputation before family and academics. I regret a lot of things, but these mistakes have shaped me in their own ways. And plus, I still have time to make high school a better experience. I’d hate to live with regrets.</p>
<p>Looking back on high school, I have almost no regrets. My only regret really was wasting a year on basketball and not discovering my love of theater until sophomore year.</p>
<p>I really like this thread idea. Learn from us, young high schoolers!</p>
<p>I regret not working in the school cafeteria. I could have made some extra money and I would have had something extra to put in my resume.</p>
<p>I regret not learning an extra language…</p>
<p>1 no passions in any field to stick to
2 too arrogant to learn from certain people whom I ‘despised’ at one time
3 zero skill in time management-quite an omen that my college life will be a disaster…
4 uncontrollably love of such terrible lifestyle:
eat so much that I want to throw up
stay up until 3 am, almost everyday</p>
<p>Reflecting back, I don’t know what I have done these years in high school…ehhhhh, so much time wasted!!</p>
<p>I’m still a junior, but i regret not having taken SAT subject tests when i was prepared, self studying easy APs, and not having been in clubs earlier</p>
<p>Things I would do differently:
- Take honors classes freshman year.
- Test out of more classes.
- Get an A in gym.
- Finish my graduation requirements during sophomore year instead of junior year so I could do full-time dual enrollment for two years instead of one.
- Do more meaningful ECs.
- Study more for competitions (specifically, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and the AMC tests).
- Start using CC earlier, for the knowledge.
- Start caring about college earlier. Until the middle of my sophomore year, I thought I would be go to the local community college and ultimately become a dietician. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not what I want to do now, and I wish I had considered that my interests might change.
- Applied to more summer programs.
- Take four years of a foreign language.
- Try to get more hours at my job.</p>
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<li>I wish I took school more seriously as a freshman. I could probably be a contender for valedictorian had I done better as a freshman (where I received my only B in high school).</li>
<li>I wish I stuck with the honors math track. </li>
<li>I wish I knew what my major and career path was going to be earlier on so I could’ve planned my schedule and SAT tutoring accordingly.</li>
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<p>Waiting until junior year to move to a mixed school. I didn’t really realise how much better it would be when I was at a girls’ school before.</p>
<ol>
<li>Tried harder my freshman and sophomore year</li>
<li>Fixed the way I dealt with several almost-boyfriends</li>
<li>Made better connections with my teachers</li>
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<p>There’s probably a lot more that I can’t think of right now though.</p>
<p>There’s many things I regret but here are the main ones
- Not trying harder to get involved: My school has a separate robotics team for VEX, Zero, and FIRST. I didn’t find this information out until recently, and so after being rejected from the FIRST team, I wasn’t involved in robotics. </p>
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<li>Not ditching my not friends sooner: I pretended everything was fine with my friends, but to them I was just someone they could use. I’d started to realize this in eighth grade, but in freshman year, I wasn’t sure how to make new friends so I didn’t ditch them.</li>
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<p>i wish that i…</p>
<ol>
<li>took fewer ap junior year</li>
<li>never discovered college confidential</li>
<li>finished sat subject tests in 10th grade</li>
<li>took act in 11th grade</li>
<li>made friends outside of my group</li>
<li>didn’t screw over junior year by wallowing in my undeserved self pity</li>
<li>made better connections with teachers (all my reqs are shallow like “clementines is a sweet girl who always does her hw and has a good attitude” lol not what i wanted)</li>
<li>stayed away from certain people</li>
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<p>I wish that…I had thought of a thread like this when I was a freshman so I could have avoided all these and my mistakes.</p>
<p>Protesting and preparing inadequately for the standardized tests.
Refusing to get to know the many girls that crushed on me (I thought they’d have to qualify themselves for me).
Discovering video games.
Not discovering my love for fiction writing sooner.
Also, just know that in school as well as life, intelligence means isolation from the crowd.</p>
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<li>Not taking Project Lead the Way. Even though I still don’t want to be an engineer, the classes could have helped a lot more than the electives I wasted my time in.</li>
<li>Not getting really involved with band from the start. I would’ve liked that first year of wind ensemble/marching band.</li>
<li>Not being in marching band this year</li>
<li>Not taking my electives more seriously so I wouldn’t get B’s in them. Kinda ridiculous they get put into gpas.</li>
<li>Not keeping some friendships.</li>
<li>Getting my license late.</li>
<li>As of now, not finishing my college supplements over the summer. Wooo</li>
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<p>@Ractogon: I TOTALLY feel that last statement. I wrote this some time ago: “It’s lonely being as cerebral as I am. You grow isolated in your thoughts.” I also understand the comment about standardized tests; had I studied, I might have near-perfect scores. And yeah, girls. I’m more selective than MIT for STEM majors. The only girl I’ve dated was a NMF and probably a genius. :D</p>
<p>As for my regrets:</p>
<p>Not taking AP Human Geo freshman year. I could be tied for Valedictorian instead of being the slated Salutatorian.
Not partying more, not being more gregarious. Shutting myself up in my bubble of academica.
Not studying more for standardized tests.
Not joining more clubs freshman year.
Not doing more with my summers. (Research, internship, etc.)</p>
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<p>I know this guy IRL who thinks everyone avoids him because he’s smart, but it’s really because he’s an asshat. It’s true that high intelligence can lead to social isolation, but just because someone is socially isolated doesn’t mean they’re intelligent. :D</p>
<p>I’m only a soph, but I already have so many.</p>
<p>Wasting summer break on manga. Lots of manga.
Slacking off fresh year and playing games all day long.
Not joining certain clubs – both this year and last.
Joining certain clubs that I’ll have to stick with for lolconsistency&perseverance in college apps – just this year.
Getting so little sleep.
Not taking enough APs.
Not being proactive – both years.
Taking Business this year. Class is ridiculous af, and I don’t mean in terms of rigor.</p>