<p>What would you do differently? </p>
<p>If you want, share why.</p>
<p>For me, I'd probably join a fraternity</p>
<p>It's good to have the group of friends you made freshman year but it's also sweet to have a home base of other friends that you plan official activities with. A fraternity is also nice because if you happen to join one with a house, it's almost as if you have an official hang out spot to go to when you're bored or lonely.</p>
<p>I’d have gotten an on-campus job the first year I got here so I could be searching for internships now instead of working minimum wage to gain experience and make money. Also, I would have joined the organizations I’m involved with my freshman year instead of waiting until sophomore year.</p>
<p>I would have taken biochem and genetics courses. </p>
<p>Other than that, no regrets. I wish I wouldn’t have had to work as much as I did throughout college but there’s nothing I could have done to change that.</p>
<p>Stayed in the dorm. </p>
<p>It would have had its disadvantages, but I just didn’t think I was ready to handle all the responsibilities of living in an apartment on my own quite yet.</p>
<p>I would’ve gotten all my UC transferable courses out of the way as soon as possible so I wouldn’t have to stay a year longer at community college.</p>
<p>1) Stay in the dorm freshman year instead of commuting. A lot of people make lifelong friends by dorming, it seems it would have helped me more in the dating department, plus it would have been nice to really get the whole college experience. I just feel like my friends in the dorms do a lot more stuff than those of us who live off campus.</p>
<p>2) Join a frat. There’d always be something to do, it’d give me more of a sense of purpose at school, and access to some lovely ladies.</p>
<p>3) Major in something I love. I don’t hate my current majors but I’m not crazy about them either, I just picked them because I was lied to that they have good job prospects. Considering I’m finding it harder to get a job now than when I was in high school, I would have just picked something I care about, job prospects be damned.</p>
<p>Although truth be told, if I could turn it back just a little more I would have joined the military after high school and then gone to college afterwards.</p>
<p>Oh man, I wouldn’t know where to start…and I’m still a freshman!</p>
<p>I <em>probably</em> shouldn’t have taken a 300 level programming class with no prior programming experience. </p>
<p>I would definitely know to start things earlier rather than later. </p>
<p>I would try to be more active in clubs.</p>
<p>I would probably see my advisor earlier on.</p>
<p>I would go to office hours as often as possible.</p>
<p>I would come in ready to work and accepting nothing less than A’s.</p>
<p>I would talk more.</p>
<p>Right now, I wish my 22-year old self could come and tell me to stop being so worried… :</p>
<p>I would’ve stopped taking random classes “just to see what they’re like” and focused right away on my major. I want to graduate a year early so now I wish I had less classes I still needed to take. </p>
<p>I would’ve moved off campus last year.</p>
<p>I would’ve made more relationships with my professors for recommendations and stuff.</p>
<p>I wish that I would have thought twice before majoring in computer science. (Still might have though anyways) </p>
<p>I wish that I did not stuff as many classes as I did 4th and 5th semester so that I could have spent more time connecting with professors in OH and perhaps understood the course material more deeply so that I would have done better in classes and not end up disliking computer science as much as I do now. (I mean, I don’t hate it)</p>
<p>I wish that I was more proactive in clubs and spent more time with smart and aggressive students instead of trying to keep friendships with those I was much different from and would fall apart anyways no matter how hard I tried. </p>
<p>I wish that I wasn’t signed up for as many clubs as I was, becoming overstretched and burned out over time. </p>
<p>I wish that I had a bit more focus, so that I did not waste time deciding on which 2 minors I wanted to take and ending up with none. </p>
<p>I wish that I spent less time worrying about internships and jobs and instead a bit more time and focus on school. </p>
<p>I wish that I had spent some time before and after class reviewing notes. This way, I didn’t need to stress out and cram during finals week. (This is not how the pros do it) </p>
<p>I wish that I had stopped treating college like high school way earlier on in the game. College is no high school. </p>
<p>I wish that I went home less.</p>
<p>I wish that I did not drink 10 cups of coffee a day during my sophomore and junior year, because half of the school probably thought that I was a drug addict when I was actually simply just overcaffeinated. </p>
<p>I wish that I had joined cross country instead of orchestra. Meeting for 3 hours a week was kinda lame to start with anyways. Even if I ultimately decided to sign up for orchestra, I wish that I did not quit it halfway through college and stick with it for my entire undergrad.</p>
<p>I wish that I had learned how to run 7:00/mi instead of 10:00/mi in my first year so that I would have enough confidence to sign up for cross country and not go for orchestra.</p>
<p>Most of all, I wish that I was less jealous of others who had “more.” “More” is a subjective term anyways. I should have focused those energies on improving myself and not on comparing myself against others.</p>
<p>However, I have never regretted my decision to attend Michigan instead of UChicago and pay less, to not join a frat, ethnic, cultural, or religious club, and to not drink underage. (That said, I still don’t drink)</p>
<p>I also have no regrets reneging on an internship with a railroad company and instead spending the summer at a company in Silicon Valley after my second year. (Sorry my time limit above expired)</p>
<p>Also, I wish that I had spent less time shopping on Amazon and tracking packages.</p>
<p>I’m only a sophomore so I don’t have a ton of regrets but the one is that…</p>
<p>I WISH I HAD TAKEN PHYSICS FRESHMAN YEAR</p>
<p>I’m a chemistry major, and I tested out of gen chem into organic chemistry as a freshman, and if I had taken the yearlong physics sequence last year I could have moved on into physical chemistry this year instead of just filling my schedule with random chemistry elective courses. Ugh. The random professor they paired with my orientation group to advise us on our class selections told me not to take ochem and physics at the same time. I should have known better than to take that sort of advice from an art history professor.</p>
<p>bookmarking to give to my senior in HS.</p>
<p>carry on.</p>
<p>I would’ve ordered books online or something way cheaper than the campus stores. Won’t be making that mistake again. Also wish I would’ve dropped - or ideally told about before registering - my class that ended up so heavily weighted toward group work. It’s been depressing to go to an elite school, only to find how self-centered and leeching other students will be if given the chance. At least i now know to stay away from business school and its endless group projects.</p>
<p>I wish I had seriously thought about job prospects after graduating before half way through my sophomore year in college. I wish I hadn’t listened to my new advisor when I transferred colleges sophomore year and had taken Economics right away to see if I really liked. I wish I had been more open to new social groups.</p>
<p>I wished I did not listen to my parents and major in EE because it has good job prospects.</p>
<p>I would major in International Relations. Sophomore year, I switched from Comp. Sci. to Business; I wanted to do IR, but I was too late. It had too many requirements for me to finish in the time I had left, so I picked Business instead. -sigh- Not really all that happy with it, but there’s not much I can do now. Just gotta finish it and try to get a job.</p>
<p>Freshman year is pretty heavy on my mind since I’m a sophomore, but I’d mainly redo my freshman year academics. Since we’re talking about a situation that already won’t happen, I’d like to add that I’d ideally relive (instead of redo) my dorm/social experience, because that was awesome and I loved it. But I’d redo my classes, particularly my science ones because I fell flat on my face and it’s safe to say I’m not happy with where I stand, but it is what it is.</p>