<p>For all you high school seniors out there, graduation should be coming around the corner. As your high school years are coming to a close, I was wondering what your biggest regrets in high school (if you had any) were, and if you all had any advice for the rest of us HS CCers.</p>
<p>Thanks so much in advance! :)</p>
<p>You really need to live your high school years without regretting anything. Now, don’t go out of your way to do anything stupid or get yourself killed, but don’t shy away from new experiences. Just learn from your mistakes when you really do something ridiculous, and remember that, at the very worst, you’ll have a good story.</p>
<p>Also, try to do your best, whatever you’re doing (whether that ‘something’ is admirable or not)! Never do anything halfway, hahaha. That’s what it means to ‘work hard, play hard!’</p>
<p>I should have gone to the high school near my house. I went across the city to attend a more challenging school, but it hasn’t been worth it.</p>
<p>Living your life with regrets, especially when it comes to classes and grades is SO pointless. If you’re regretting a class because you got a B in it, you need to reevaluate yourself and your life. </p>
<p>I literally regret nothing. I think my only regret would be not talking to more people. Hm. To each their own, I suppose.</p>
<p>Not a senior yet, but I can tell you that the biggest regret I have, and most likely, will ever have about high school is not having my priorities straight freshman and sophomore years, and getting grades that, while not failing or terribly shameful, have generated a lot of stress for me when I consider their effects on my future options. The worst part is not knowing whether or not a strong, or even outstanding academic record for the next 2 years will outweigh this in the eyes of a college admissions board.</p>
<p>However, I have learned several things from my experience, primarily that you only live once, and when you make decisions, you can’t look back, only forward. Nearly as important is knowing that all too often, people in positions of responsibility over you are simply inept, particularly in regards to their job. Nothing can be done about it, and when you recognize this, it’s important to take control of the situation and do what’s best for you, because no one else will. Think Katniss Everdeen. You can blame it on them, but that isn’t going to help you achieve what you want. Lastly, and probably most importantly: if you want something, take it. You wouldn’t believe the resistance I’m getting from some people for something as little as taking a schedule with 6 AP classes, but nothing that they think matters. My chemistry teacher called me a moron today because I’m going to take the AP chemistry exam next May without taking her class. BFD, taking it anyway. </p>
<p>Hopefully all of this makes sense, although I know at least most of it won’t apply to you; you seem a lot more mature than I am and you definitely seem to have your priorities straight with the kind of stats that you have.</p>
<p>Cheating freshman year and being suspended for it, I still feel like it haunts me.</p>
<p>I regret nothing. Yeah, I screwed up a number of things, but mistakes are learning experiences. If you do something wrong, you learn to move on, and to do it right the next time.</p>
<p>I think there might be a theme here. I’m not quite sure… but I think there just might be a common thread…</p>
<p>Bonus points for the Hunger Games reference, by the way.</p>
<p>Wasting a year in AP Environmental.</p>
<p>^^^^yes! I’m a junior and in APES and I know I’ve wasted a year in that class.</p>
<p>Love the hunger games reference. Haha.</p>
<p>I never really had good time management until my senior year, and I wish I would have earlier. I wish I used my lunch periods to work and eat like I do now, instead of social hour in the cafeteria. I wish I would’ve ignored when teachers tell you “you must use a binder” and gone with folders and notebooks instead. Sounds stupid, but binders always made me super unorganized just because they take up so much space that I never felt like carrying them around. I wish I wouldn’t have focused so much on getting recruited for college athletics and focused more on studying to get into schools.</p>
<p>Not going to private school.</p>
<p>I wish I learned to stop caring about what others thought of me earlier. What’s the point of being approved of in the eyes of people you honestly don’t even like?</p>
<p>Getting suspended for graffiti. Makes it just that much harder for college.</p>
<p>CORVIDS: so true</p>
<p>I regret working so hard!</p>
<p>I overloaded my schedule since day one of freshman year with honors and AP classes, and it didn’t really pay off. I was accepted to some pretty great colleges, but long story short I simply didn’t get enough scholarship money. So I’ll be going to my state flagship next year like everyone else. I’ll be in the honors college, but still. Those regular kids had the time of their lives in high school while I worked my ass off for nothing.</p>
<p>YOLO! Really though, I regret wasting all my time in HS with one girl (we dated for 2 1/2 years) now that we are no longer going out I see how stupid that was, I feel like I missed out on some awesome experiences (and parties) because of her. </p>
<p>Also I regret not getting to know more people and that I used to care so much about what people thought of me.</p>
<p>Oh, and I wish I started lifting seriously earlier.</p>
<p>Agreed with CORVIDS.</p>
<p>I regret taking a math class first semester of senior year, befriending a certain person (I’m nice to just about everyone when I probably shouldn’t be), and not going to enough concerts.</p>