<p>I saw a post like this in "College Life" and thought I'd bring it over here.</p>
<p>For all graduates (and others if you want), what do you wish you could change about the way you went through (or are going through) high school?</p>
<p>Personally I would be more ambitious. I would not have settled for second- or third-place like I have been doing.</p>
<p>I wish I would have taken it more seriously. I ****ed around too much. That and get involved in more EC's.</p>
<p>Well I generally enjoyed my high school career. You now plenty of fun, good education, great friends, and all that comes with the territory. However, and this is weird, I really should have tried to sleep more though I don't really need rest, but yeah sleeping 4/5 hours a night is not the best way to go day to day.</p>
<p>I wish I had started school on time so that I could do more than 1 ec my freshman year. I didnt have a choice, but I started a month late and it screwed me </p>
<p>So now I've got one 4 year ec,
and two 3 year ec's</p>
<p>oh, and I wish I had talked to my la teacher about bumping up to honors. I think I'm getting bumped anyways since I had the highest grade in the class for the entire year.</p>
<p>^ I agree with the sleep thing (Tony),</p>
<p>I would put effort into my homework sooner than right before it's due,
I would get more involved in clubs,
I would want to take more electives but still never have room for them,
and I would be on time to school during junior year. </p>
<p>good thing I still have, oh, around 280 days until graduation..</p>
<p>i wouldn't have befriended the jerks my freshman...and my mom wishes i had gone to a regular school, she thinks it would have caused less emotional and physical stress.</p>
<p>^the jerks my freshman year</p>
<p>ask out the girls i was always scared to date</p>
<p>im only a rising senior but... </p>
<p>i would've taken studying more seriously and started better studying/homework habits earlier</p>
<p>i would've quit year-round swimming earlier because it was basically a huge waste of time doing something I didn't enjoy at all when I could've gotten involved in other non-athletic ECs instead or even just more time studying.</p>
<p>but then again if i had quit swimming earlier i probably would've wondered 'what if' so i guess i was better off sticking with it till the bitter end, even if it was more painful</p>
<p>I'll be a senior next year, and I would've been less ambitious...</p>
<p>That and changed to the other teacher for AP Comp soph year...</p>
<p>I would have joined track the instant I got cut from baseball freshman year instead of waiting until junior year. I would have done forensics at some point. I would have pressed my parents to let me drive around more during junior year. I would have kept up with photography club. I would have joined/formed a band and performed at Oasis (our spring and fall student battle of the band type thing).</p>
<p>Other than that, I wouldn't change a thing about high school. I generally enjoyed myself all four years and did well in school.</p>
<p>I would make better friends. It was a bad choice to choose who I did. But what's done is done..too bad I can't really go change it.</p>
<p>I'm only a senior, but man. I wish I had stuck with soccer since freshie year-- now I'm just too lazy to take up sports, not to mention I'm terribly out of shape now. I also wish I had made more friends my ownage earlier; that way I'd have some really really good old friends to celebrate my senior year with. Now all my best friends are off in Boston, Hawaii and Cali. :(</p>
<p>Asides from remembering to do homework,</p>
<p>high school has been just dandy.</p>
<p>I would have calmed down and been a more settled person. I always felt like I didn't know what was going on socially or academically--if I just buckled down and did what I had to do then I would have been more successful. But overall I'm not terribly disappointed.</p>
<p>I agree with the sleep thing. I also would have dumped my jerk of a boyfriend freshman/sophomore year a LOT sooner.</p>
<p>more boyfriends.end of story. i didnt have that much time to have one, and i should have been more flirty.oh well. lifes good</p>
<p>I would've been more outgoing earlier in my high school career and procrastinated a little less. Other than that, all is well!</p>
<p>Yes, procrastination seems to be a major issue here. What makes us do it (or, not do it, more specifically, whatever <em>it</em> is)?</p>