<p>If you had to restart and do college all over again, knowing how it's been for you, would you?</p>
<p>I don't think I would. I'm very lucky in that I don't have any debt, but I still feel like this has kind of been a waste of my dad's money so far. I'm double majoring in two things that are supposed to have good job prospects. Now I have one summer left and have had ZERO internships. It's not like I'm an idiot, I get good grades. The last time I was employed was two years ago at a supermarket. Had I just stayed there and worked full-time I'd probably be a department manager by now, but of course I decided not to because college is supposed to be the great door opener. Hah, yeah right. I've even met engineers and comp sci majors who have trouble getting jobs. I mean christ, if the two allegedly best majors for jobs can't even get hired what hope do the rest of us have?</p>
<p>I think I would have been much better off joining the military after high school. I don't know what I would have done after that, but at least I'd have been steadily employed for at least four years and gotten to see a bit of the world.</p>
<p>I would of taken my Calculus prerequesites Freshman year or in the summer before college started. I’m so screwed this year. I don’t remember anything from PreCalculus that we need for Calc!!!</p>
<p>@Romani yeah, if I could wind the clock back even further I’d take high school seriously and do tough math and science courses so I could then do engineering. Probably mechanical engineering. I’ve always liked cars…</p>
<p>I would have gone heavier with math and science when I started (not to mention, paying more attention in high school). I basically blew off my freshman year and took easy humanities courses. I ended with a ~4.0, but a year behind all my classmates. Now that I’ve discovered a love for a particular field of science, it’s going to take me an extra year or two to graduate. I feel incredibly blessed (but also unbelievably guilty) that my parents are so willing to pay for it. </p>
<p>But yeah, even though I sometimes feel like I’m only in college for my MRS degree, I love it and can’t imagine how different my life would be if I hadn’t gone. I would definitely do this all over again, with some serious changes.</p>
<p>I would most definitely do it again. For me, college is more than a path to a better job. I want to extend my education. And while some of my courses have been duds, plenty were worthwhile. </p>
<p>It would be hard to decide what to do if I started over. I might try to go to the college I’m transferring to immediately instead of waiting, but I don’t know if I’d want to give up the experiences I had at my two other schools. I think I’d mostly do the same thing but be smarter about it. It would be amazing to redo the last two years and actually know how to study properly, take tests, and get the most out of my classes. </p>
<p>Oh, and I’m definitely with everyone who said they wished they’d improved their math and science skills.</p>
<p>If I could do it all over again I most definitely would. First I would have done much much better in High school. I was not stupid by any means but went through a really rebellious time during my teen years. Which made me do pretty poorly in school. I had a 2.7 cumulative graduating high school GPA. However, I have picked it up in college to a 3.8. Because of my low gpa I was forced to do a year of community college. I, personally, wasn’t very fond of community college and much much much prefer my university. I also would have decided what I want to major in sooner. I did a lot of flip flopping between majors and it will take me 5.5 years to graduate instead of 4. While I understand this isn’t completely abnormal it still sucks to have another 1.5 years without a real income and also another ~4K in student loan debt.</p>
<p>I’d start over again. I don’t think the same chips would’ve fallen into place though and led me to make some amazing friendships.</p>
<p>I definitely would like to wipe my first two years of community college out of the picture. Lots of bad influences and habits, wouldn’t have got addicted to WoW (college career killer if you get into this game for the first time as a science major I feel like), health issues (if only I had realized earlier my symptoms), ex-girlfriend, girlfriend, and family issues I’d rather not have had. Didn’t know how to study properly, take tests, all that jazz. Just been getting by on pure intelligence, not studying too much at all. I’m actually kind of surprised how far I’ve gotten, but I still think that for all the problems, procrastination, money issues, and emotional chaos I’ve gone through I think I would’ve been a better off if I had just worked my butt off. I only started doing that my third year of college in order to get the heck out of there and get my life back on track. I also wouldn’t have tried to do pre-pharmacy and waste all of those hours in chemistry labs and other courses fulfilling the prerequisites.</p>
<p>Thinking about it I could’ve probably been at a much better school than the one I’m at now if I picked a different major or if I simply didn’t procrastinate (aka didn’t watch the 7 seasons of The Office on Thanksgiving break before my Linear Algebra midterm or waited the hour before my Diffy Q tests to begin to study for material covered the past 2 months, although at the time I was helping someone with all their college coursework and worrying if I got them pregnant lol), but I think that if I did not pick the major I’m in right now I would not be happy (quite important). Of course, my major and classes became much easier when I started putting in a little more effort and having people around me in the same class that were hard workers (which got me to work). </p>
<p>I definitely would’ve talked more as well. I know that in my first honors course I ever took in college that the teacher gave me nothing but perfect A’s on all the papers, midterms, and everything we had to do for class. However, he gave me an F for participation because I didn’t talk much during class and brought me to a B. I’ve gotten better as an aspie, but it was definitely hard for me at 19 to speak up and share my opinions. Getting an A in Comm 101 was a big deal for me this past spring (had a hard professor too).</p>