<p>Nearly 20 years later, I regret…</p>
<p>…not realizing that just because you can get good grades by cramming at the last minute doesn’t mean that you should.</p>
<p>…not recognizing the difference between boldness and rudeness.</p>
<p>…not taking more courses outside the areas I was already interested in.</p>
<p>…wasting so damned much time!!!</p>
<p>I regret not trying in high school. I got by and was #3 graduating, but I could have easily done better. I also regret having lame math teachers who made me dislike math…I now love calculus and am teaching myself physics…if only I could have cared and applied myself back then…</p>
<p>Slacking to the extreme. I’m still graduating with about a 93 average so i didn’t do horribly, but I could have done so much better. :P</p>
<p>Ah well, I’ll try to shine in college. (If the senioritis ever wears off).</p>
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<p>Not getting my associates this semester and transferring. I went part-time this semester to do a semester-long internship program. It’s not that I necessarily regret doing the program it’s just that I wish I had graduated from my CC. I know a lot of people here probably don’t think that’s a big deal, but it would have made transferring a lot easier. Now I’m short credits and won’t be a junior, and I didn’t qualify for scholarships like I probably would have had I gotten a degree. I just know I would have really been proud of myself had I graduated. Plus it turns out I could have gotten ahead in classes and therefore would be further ahead at my university. Oh, and I could have gotten my GPA up way more than it is now, and I could have also actually participated in the national honors society I was accepted into.</p>
<p>Like said, I dunno if I really regret doing the internship because it did bring great memories that I’ll never forget. I just regret that I wasn’t able to accomplish these goals.</p>
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<li>I also really regret letting work take over my life. From my first job during my freshman year to this internship this semester my college career has pretty much could be defined as “work work work”. And not schoolwork, either. I was way more concerned with fulfilling those commitments at work than I was with schoolwork. I was terrified of being a couple of minutes late to work, but I wouldn’t be as concerned about failing a test or project. I let my workplace take advantage of me and schedule me way too many hours to be part-time and to be in school and also with making me be the one to work the closing shift all of the time and the weekend hours no one else seemed to have to work. I never had time to study, review, or work on things in advance. I know that really brought my grades down when they could have been better, and even when my grades were good I just know that life would have been a hell of a lot easier if I wasn’t so focused on work. I’ve had to make myself learn that I’m in school to be a student, not to get yelled at by a bunch of crazy, angry customers :)</li>
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<p>Regret not dating a wider circle of bros as well as commuting to college. Regret ever meeting my ex. But it’s never too late to be happy … have found my passion. Take chances, let yourself screw up, and you’ll have less regrets.</p>
<p>I regret not telling the girl I like about my affection.</p>
<p>Regrets? Well, I suppose posting them will let me vent.</p>
<p>I regret confusing the academic side of CTY with the social side. I always related CTY with happiness, and as a result thought I’d be happy if I went to a top twenty. I made myself miserable studying for four years when I could’ve been with my friends. I regret that it took me getting rejected by all of my dream schools to realize this.</p>
<p>What I do NOT regret however, is watching Spaceballs the night before the PSATs. I don’t regret going to all of those anime conventions. I don’t regret playing Tales of Graces instead of prepping for my Val. Speech. I don’t regret doing my communications final in my friends basement although I would’ve done it better at home. I don’t regret not having every one of my relatives and their third cousin come to my graduation party. My friends were enough. I don’t regret doing nothing but playing video games after school my freshman and junior year. I don’t regret failing to achieve some of those dreams, I tried. I don’t regret being me, now that I’ve found out who that is.</p>
<p>Also, on medication. I’m ADHD and have been medicated since second grade. Honestly, I’m not sure how much of a difference it makes. Sure, it does become easier to concentrate, but you still have to work hard at it. It doesn’t magically make your problems go away. Embrace it as part of who you are :3</p>
<p>My biggest regrets are not having more fun during high school and not caring enough about high school to try to have fun.</p>
<p>I’ve never really liked my high school. It’s pretty small public school, with about 300 people per class, ultra nerdy…as in 5 people are going to Harvard and 135164145 to Berkeley next year, and completely sheltered from the real world.
During high school, I hung out with basically two different cliques, not truly fitting in with either of them or having fun when I was hanging out with them… Now that I think back on it, I don’t know why I didn’t make the effort to find a new group of friends. I guess hanging out with people I’ve been friends with since the 6th grade was easier and safer than trying to make a new group of friends. It hasn’t been until this year that their conservatism, snobbishness, and constant focus on studying bugged me.</p>
<p>So I finally branched out this past semester, I’ve become really close to these two girls who have introduced me to a crowd completely different than my school. The crowd isn’t what you would call good kids, but I feel like I’m finally having the fun that I should have in high school and have found friends that I truly fit in with.</p>
<p>Not really trying in HS till my senior year… And not getting into my top choice ED because of my previous mediocre grades.
Yeah, bummer, but I still think I’m going where I’m supposed to. So it’s all good!</p>
<p>I’m going to have quite a big list here. </p>
<p>1.) Didn’t even bother applying to American University because of money problems. Should Have. Could Have. Would Have. </p>
<p>2.) Should have asked for more help on Financial Matter for college. My school don’t offer much assistance to first generation students, I should have looked outside the box then.</p>
<p>3.) Should have stood up for other more</p>
<p>4.) Should have DROPPED Spanish and took art classes instead. Spanish did not even help. </p>
<p>5.) Should have been more open with others.</p>
<p>6.) Should have worked harder on Math related subjects. </p>
<p>7.) Should have told my best friend how much she meant to me before she went away. </p>
<p>8.) Should have earned more money from my job.</p>
<p>9.) Should have been more time efficient. </p>
<p>10.) Should have been more true to myself.</p>
<p>Not being more outgoing first semester freshmen year. Could have had a lot more fun but allowed the fact that I didn’t like a group of people to hurt my social life. I kind of regret not giving more effort but I think I’ll try a bit harder because I’m done with all my requirements. Getting in trouble with the school. Not worth it because certain things can stay on your record. I’ve done some stupid things that I would take back, but I’ve had a great experience.</p>
<p>Slacking is obviously one of the more popular regrets, but I have to echo those who’ve said it. F____g slacking off has ruined what I now realize could’ve been an amazing opportunity. I assumed it wasn’t worth trying just because I’m not a genius/Ivy League material. I have a GPA of 3.1. I was too lazy to join more than a couple of clubs and ran for exactly no leadership positions. (Transferring in the middle of high school didn’t help, but if I’d have been assertive/motivated…). My high school gives us as many AP classes as we want- I could have twice as many AP credits as I do, easily. (And would’ve had more fun in school because of it). The whole prospectus would be different. </p>
<p>Regret number two is not… working harder to make friends, but that’s a boring regret. </p>
<p>Reget number three is not lying to my parents more often. If they were under the impression that I were emotionally healthy, they’d allow me to go to school farther away. There’s not necessarily anything wrong with saying “I’m fine” when you’re not. </p>
<p>Regret number four is not telling my horrible, horrible English teacher why he’s an idiot. I’m not a rude person, but he deserves to be told in excruciating detail why he shouldn’t be a teacher. Actually scratch that, the year isn’t over yet… maybe only three regrets…</p>
<p>My only regret is that I’ve stopped playing musical instruments and Frisbee. Too many all nighters, not enough time.</p>
<p>^ You still have the chance to start at least one or both of those up again! What instrument do you play? Guitar? Piano? Wind/brass instruments? Playing for even 15 minutes can be a great break from studying.</p>
<p>Definitely working more harder my Freshman year in high school and keeping my GPA high in order to be in top 10</p>
<p>Not trying freshman year.</p>
<p>I basically blew it off. I’m naturally bright (not trying to sound conceited, stuck up, or anything), and figured, what the hell, I can float by getting easy B’s in my honors classes. So I did and ended with a 3.2 GPA freshman year. </p>
<p>Wake up call. Sophomore year I spent a lot of time researching colleges; realizing that a 3.2 would get me into NONE of the tier 1 colleges I desired, I figured I had to step it up. I ended soph. year with a 3.75. Cumulative: 3.3~3.4</p>
<p>Junior year, I confronted my parents, and told them, I am done with a social life. I had my dad create my new facebook password, so only he could sign me on. Sounds stupid, but seriously got me so much more work done. I had him turn on parental controls on my computer; blocking anything distracting website during weekdays/nights. I did incredible this year too (also because I was finally prescribed my adderall, which I was told I should have been taking a while ago). I ended this year with a 4.25, straight As. Now at a 3.7ish I think</p>
<p>Senior year, I figured, what the hell, I’m on fire right now, so I took some more APs (the easy-ish ones) and an honors class. All As, and another 4.5. My GPA shot so damn high it was crazy: a 3.9 GPA. </p>
<p>Now, if that’s not a good grade trend, then I don’t know what is?
3.2
3.75
4.25
4.5</p>
<p>I mean, what looks better than that?!</p>
<p>Obviously, my freshman year stung a little. And it still hurts looking back at it. But I rocked the ACT with a 33, and ended up getting into UMich (dream schoooooool). So in reality, I don’t have too much things to regret. The only school the rejected me was Dartmouth, which was a “what’s the worst that can happen” kinda appication</p>
<p>I regret not applying to college and having to do more than a year of volunteering after high school.</p>
<p>Not having more nerve with girls, and not realizing sooner than Junior year that A- wasn’t quite good enough.</p>
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<li>taking ap chemistry. teacher SUCKED and since it was filled with smart kids (magnet school) who were like 10X smarter than me, i kept getting C’s and totally brought my gpa down.</li>
<li>being lazy in calc ab and 9th grade english; could have had a higher gpa</li>
<li>not studying for this one math test i just took on monday which counted as 25% of my whole semester grade and got a C on it, so i ended with a B for 2nd semester in just like that even though i worked so hard for that A in 4th quarter.</li>
<li>taking math in summer school in order to get into a higher math class.</li>
<li>being lazy and not sending more internship applications and emailing mentors.</li>
<li>not volunteering more (have 400+, but i still want more)</li>
<li>not enjoying my high school life more</li>
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