Would you go back and do it all over again?

<p>If you had the power to turn back the clock some four years and go back to your first day of Freshman year, and start all over, would you? What would you do differently? Would it be worth it? </p>

<p>No…I think I’d probably end up at basically the same place anyway. I’m basically happy with the way my life is. </p>

<p>Hell no. This is like imagining a nightmare.</p>

<p>I would probably try in 9th and 10th grade. Maybe get above a 3.25 GPA and maintain what my junior year GPA is, a 3.9. That would probably make more sense than being lazy and procrastinating like I did :(( </p>

<p>Yeah, that’s what kills me – I have a 4.0 UW for Junior and Senior year and a 3.5 for Freshman and Sophomore year – if I had the motivation and diligence that I attained as an upperclassman, I could have been well in the running for Valedictorian but whatever. Whats done is done. My little sister is learning from my mistakes – she’s going to start DE her Freshman year (unlike me, who started it Senior year, unable to realize earlier how much of a GPA boost it is…) – and hopefully she’ll succeed much farther than me. </p>

<p>Nope. All my years sucked in some way and through that messy trip I’ve learned more about myself and about other people. </p>

<p>Now why would I do that?</p>

<p>@FantasyVesparia - In what way did your other years suck? Socially or academically? Both? Neither? I had an awful Sophomore year that I would hate to relive. </p>

<p>No. I don’t want to re-live those years. Ever. I hate every second of high school (still do). I just want to get out of here as fast as possible. The fact that I spent my summer last year at a college (and my experience was amazing) made me realize just how much I want to leave. </p>

<p>I might change my answer because my grandmother died while I was in high school…it would be nice to have her back for a while. </p>

<p>I think about this situation a lot, this “what if you could go back and start over again” thing. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the beginning of my life with all the knowledge I have now, so people would think I was a prodigy. But that seems like cheating somehow, and my life might turn out worse if I got a second chance…the butterfly effect and stuff. </p>

<p>Someday I’m going to feel nostalgic about this part of my life. These are the good old days I’m going to have selective memory about. It’s weird. </p>

<p>If I could go back with the experience and lessons I have now, I’d love to start all over. But that’s obviously not going to happen. So actually, I am grateful that I’ve gone through so many things, good or bad, and now I just so desperately want to attend college! :)</p>

<p>I’d be smarter about taking the SAT IIs. </p>

<p>No way. I want to be in college already, I don’t want 4 more years of HS even if it means getting better grades, scores, etc.</p>

<p>Not at all… this journey has been long enough as it is.</p>

<p>I would go back and do it over again. </p>

<p>Sure. If I could go back with all the knowledge I have now, I’d probably just get straight A’s and stay friends with the same people. It wasn’t too bad for me.</p>