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<li> not taking more math. I should've done more linear algebra and integral calculus</li>
<li> not taking more econ. ECON IS LIFE.<br></li>
<li> not picking a better topic for my senior thesis</li>
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<p>I have many many many things but the year we noticed the racquetball courts were empty during finals week and we spent the week on the courts and my A in Organic Chemistry fell to a B due to the D on the final first comes to mind.</p>
<p>There were many many other things but that's an "I could kick myself" one.</p>
<p>Two huge mistakes with far-reaching consequences:</p>
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<li><p>Hurrying my way through college and grad school without a break (I even took summer classes)</p></li>
<li><p>Not standing up for myself when my parents pressured me to study engineering at the small commuter engineering school they chose for me (I wanted to go a large university and take lots of neat classes) Yes, I'm Asian. No, they did not pay for my tuition (I got a full scholarship). Yes, I was a coward.</p></li>
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<p>My biggest regret is not meeting people and having friends sooner. I didn't meet most of my friends until halfway through second semester of freshman year, meaning that 3/4 of my freshman year was spent wallowing in self-pity and moaning about not having any friends instead of doing something about it. Luckily, the last 1/4 was spent having a fantastic time partying it up and hanging out with the greatest people ever. Something I'm regretting right now is not getting enough sleep and either not going to class or going and not paying attention to what's going on because I'm so tired.</p>
<p>No. 1 mistake in college- starting second semester after every one else had formed their groups,cliques etc. It took me a long time to recuperate from that, if I ever did. I remember having such a hard time making friends and ended up as much of a loner. It didnt help that I was shy as well.</p>
<p>biggest regret is going to community college first.</p>
<p>I've never heard anyone say that. Please elaborate.</p>
<p>my biggest regret is not trying out new things because of old beliefs. thankfully i realised that now and i'm jumping headlong into the sea without any support.</p>
<p>As a high-school student, I looked forward to the day I would enter a new college world. Today, I sit in a fly-infested smokey cluttered room wishing I was never born.</p>
<p>Khipper, why do you regret being a journalism major??</p>
<p>TON1CH1
The only regret I have about spending 12th grade at a community college was I brilliantly took the first semester of calculus at the comm. college and the second at Penn State. They split their courses completely differently so I had to teach myself to integrate whilst taking the second semester. Other than that, I liked being in with kids that were all a year older than me. And now I can tell my kids "By the time I was 21 I already had my BS and was half-way through my masters......." Which they have always enjoyed hearing so much (sarcastic.)
Other than that I got used to working at a college level before I went away to school and got hit by that shock.</p>
<p>Biggest regret: going to a "satellite college" of the state university system in my home town rather than going away to the flagship school. It wasn't an issue of getting in....I made the decision based on what friends of mine were doing at the time. None of those friends have been part of my life since BEFORE I even graduated.</p>
<p>The first college I attended I had never visited before the first day of freshman year. Within 24 hours of arriving, I knew I had made the wrong choice in terms of "fit." (I left just after Thanksgiving, lived with my parent and worked that year then visited more colleges and reapplied as a freshman.) I was happy at my second college. ( But I did make a lifelong friend from the first college).</p>
<p>Well, yes, visiting the college is a must-must. And it also helps to actually ask out the pass-outs of the college about the quality of education in that college.</p>
<p>My biggest regret is not availing myself of the opportunity to study abroad when my college offered lots of study abroad options. But, after many years of delayed gratification, I am leaving Tuesday for my first trip to Paris!</p>
<p>Going to a state school where I'm (this is going to make me sound very full of myself, but I don't care) smarter than (almost) everyone.</p>
<p>In the best of economic times, there are very few openings for journalism graduates. When times are tough economically, news outlets often don't fill vacant positions in their news rooms.</p>
<p>More and more over the last 25 years, I have seen reporters hired with degrees other than journalism, some times without any news experience. At one 40,000-circulation daily, the editor hired a creative writing graduate from Carnegie Mellon over a number of candidates with daily newspaper experience, albeit at small dailies. His rationale was "She's a CMU graduate. She must be smart. She should be able to do the job."</p>
<p>At another newspaper I know of, young reporters with little or no experience but with degrees from prestigeous universities given key beats and told to sink or swim. </p>
<p>Looking to the future, I am both frightened and fascinated as to what might happen. The Internet is rapidly changing the way news is handled. The number of working reporters at a number of newspapers is rapidly declining. These newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and New York Times.</p>
<p>And finally, the truth is that I am/was an okay reporter, not a great one. To be candid, I lack a lot of the intangibles necessary to be a good if not great reporter. I was good enough to work on small newspapers, but not good enough to work on larger paper.</p>
<p>If I knew then (30 years ago) what I know now, I think I would have joined the armed forces in intelligence than then tried to get a job as a researcher or an analyst for the CIA etc.</p>
<p>Sorry for rambling on...I hope I answered your question.</p>
<p>Biggest mistake ever: Went to a school because my ex was going there.</p>
<p>Needless to say...we broke up before the start of the school year.</p>
<p>my first mistake when i first tried college (at Goucher-yuck) was doing too much acid/special k,etc. in an attempt to recreate the lifestyle portrayedThe Electric Cool-aid Acid Test...I didnt fail out, but I left because I went nuts temporarily. It's not the sixties, kids...that lifestyle just doesn't fly anymore</p>
<p>I go to Mcgill now, the kids are a lot more serious</p>
<p>My biggest regret is not taking a year off first. Ｉ ｃｏｕｌｄ ｈａｖｅ ｕｓｅｄ ｔｈｅ ｍａｔｕｒｉｔｙ．</p>