<p>wat regrets</p>
<p>Going through the CAP Program and getting to UT Austin. UT has been nothing but a nerve wrecking, expensive, and mentally exhausting venture. Would’ve been better off at another school.</p>
<p>Also, not working harder and trying to get way over my head in Calculus/AP classes while I was in high school. I just hope things get better from here on out</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>My biggest regret in college would probably be not finding a good group of friends my freshman year of college. Now I feel like I don’t have anyone to turn to for help. :(</p>
<p>@Aali4real i’m considering ut, now that i got rejected from dartmouth and likely from brown, tell me the dirt</p>
<p>^glennnat</p>
<p>UT is a fun place to be and Austin is a city like no other. Very liberal compared to the rest of the Great State of Texas. UT is a quality brand, the degree you earn from here is enough to get your foot in the door at most major law schools and jobs.</p>
<p>What I dislike about UT is the size (which can be a good thing at times). It is also a research university so as an undergrad I felt overlooked. I also felt as if I was competing to survive at the school and if I couldn’t float I would be forced to drown and go somewhere else.</p>
<p>My biggest advice is that if your an out-of-state resident, don’t come here unless you’re rich and or have grants and scholarships lined up. UT is fun but academic are tough and you can try as hard as you want but still end up short. Adjusting to UT takes about a year which can greatly impact your GPA.</p>
<p>Basically, if you love UT and are in state and are in your major then go ahead and go to UT otherwise avoid it.</p>
<p>I can answer more specfic questions if you want just PM or post…</p>
<p>(This is for High School)</p>
<p>I regret not CARING more. </p>
<p>I regret not having college on my mind freshmen year. </p>
<p>Or sophomore year. </p>
<p>Or junior year. </p>
<p>Or the summer before senior year. </p>
<p>I regret not feeling the self-drive to bust my butt until last fall. I regret not being involved more. I regret having a lot of cool, unique interests but not doing much to give myself any credence with them. I regret somehow making my only non-Honors / AP subject, Math, my most difficult subject. I regret allowing my GPA to take the hit because of it. </p>
<p>I will be attending my state school’s honor program next fall. I’m excited to rewrite all the above wrongs listed above. I’m just really disappointed in myself for not putting forth my best in high school. I KNOW that I could be deciding which dorm hall in Greenwich Village I like the most if I had indeed tried my best. :(</p>
<ol>
<li>Not doing well in high school.</li>
<li>Not caring at all about my SAT’s. </li>
<li>Quitting football after my freshman year.</li>
<li>Quitting track after my junior year. </li>
<li>Not having a job while in high school.</li>
<li>Not applying to more organizations for scholarships during my junior/senior year.</li>
<li>Not going to my classes and lectures during my freshman year in college. </li>
<li>Not joining any other student organization in college other than my fraternity.</li>
<li>Eating massive amounts of food after high school and not working out afterwards. </li>
<li>Stopping my daily weight lifting ritual back in high school after junior year. </li>
<li>Leaving Purdue even though I had the option to stay after my freshman year. Pretty much wasted a year in terms of credit and money but got my work ethic back together at least. </li>
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<p>I guess I can’t do much now, so I’m making the best of whatever I have right now. <em>sigh</em></p>
<ol>
<li>Not doing well in high school/not trying enough</li>
<li>Taking the “intro to college” course they recommend during my freshman year. GIANT waste of time and money.</li>
<li>Dating a total whacko my freshman year, ruined my first semester. Could have made much better grades.</li>
<li>Not applying to more internships</li>
<li>Wish I had taken more classes during my first 2 years so I could have graduated quicker.</li>
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<p>2 years later and I wished I had applied myself in high school. I wish I went to another college. I wanted to go to a school close to home – to NYU, to Hunter – anything in New York so I can commute. </p>
<p>I’m stuck at my current school for two more years. I don’t hate it, but I just don’t feel comfortable here. I feel tortured. 2 more years – I tell myself. 2 more years. It’s too late to transfer for Spring semester of junior year. =*(</p>
<p>Not applying to more schools which offer full tuition scholarships, taking AP Physics instead of Ecology (too much effort required, poor teacher), not having a summer job, not researching core curriculums at college more (I might not be able to study abroad now) and taking a study hall freshman year.</p>
<p>Not getting more involved in high school!</p>
<p>Not building my extracurriculars until the end of sophomore year. There’s so much I wanted to be involved with and I only mustered up the courage after sophomore year to get into them. </p>
<p>I also wish I took up photography freshman year instead of sophomore year.</p>
<p>i guess i regret not doing better in school but i dont really care. i got into my number 1 school off the waitlist so i was meant to go! i regret not doing softball because i love it. i regret not being myself freshmen year. im happy right now school wise. i just wish high school was over so i could just go to loyola maryland!!!</p>
<p>I should’ve realized that I needed to take a physics class earlier. I didn’t know what I wanted to do up until this year. All I knew is that I wanted to do math or science. Now that I want to do engineering and because of the restrictions on my schedule because of the IB program, I have to drop my favorite class, orchestra, to take Physics. I would’ve had to drop orchestra for one year, but it wouldn’t have been my senior year.</p>
<p>Just because a lot of CCers can pull self-studying off doesn’t mean anyone can :-/</p>
<p>Know your limits.</p>
<p>I was unpopular in high school, especially in my freshman and sophomore years; even the geeks were awful to me. My course of action: sucking up. I friended hundreds of kids on Facebook, hoping that a few real friendships would result (I obtained approximately zero real friends by doing this). I bought gifts for many of my classmates. There was one group of girls - a star cluster of arch-elitists from AP Latin Land - that I practically stalked. I was rewarded for my efforts with averted gazes, a reputation as a she-creep, and even some cyberbullying. </p>
<p>I should have just done my own thing.</p>
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<p>Those sort of elitist AP Latin girls existed when I was high school, too. I had good relations with them, but they were quite a tour de force for a high school clique. They did a lot of stuff together and through reading their posts on Facebook, it seems that their links with one another exist to this day, even though many of them attend college hundreds of miles away from one another.</p>
<p>my regrets</p>
<ol>
<li><p>not choosing to attend a more reputable high school.</p></li>
<li><p>not taking more ap classes</p></li>
<li><p>slacking off freshman and sophomore year.</p></li>
<li><p>not participating in school activities and extracurriculars (highly regret)</p></li>
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<p>i could go on and on, but whats the use?..it will only make me feel useless. I wanted to attend Columbia and actually thought i had a shot…lol what was i thinking. I was a complete noob to the admissions game and this is why i will be attending a SUNY in the fall. Ill try to transfer to my dream school but thats a long shot</p>
<p>I regret going to school that I am graduating from. It has been complete hell and I wish I never had attended this school. So many opportunities were stolen away from me just being here. The people here are so messed up. No hot girls, everyone is related and no one actually has to work for their grades. Everything is based on who your related to. We have kids taking applied in the top 20 of our class. Im so happy its almost over.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Not working as hard as I could have during my freshman and sophomore years.</p></li>
<li><p>Not having any extracurriculars during said years.</p></li>
<li><p>Being such a recluse. (I’m still working on this.)</p></li>
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