<p>What is one aspect, anything; you regret from Highschool?</p>
<p>This same question was asked to the freshmans in the University of Miami, 8 out of 10 students said, time management.</p>
<p>Not getting involved in school earlier… seriously. As cheesy as it sounds.</p>
<p>Not dropping out to homeschool myself</p>
<p>Not self-studying more APs (i was definitely in the position to 5 a couple of them in 9th grade, alas, it was a junior high hell)</p>
<p>Taking the academic ambitions of my classmates too seriously (none of them really had any)</p>
<p>Caring too much about making an impression on people who I’ll never talk with again (problematic since in early 10th grade I wanted to make an impression on THREE separate communities: HS, heavengames though I finally quit that in an outburst, and CC)</p>
<p>underestimating the power of self-study (which everyone must rely on after college)</p>
<p>being too reluctant to even take a look at books from the university library</p>
<p>not knowing that there was a DIRECT BUS ROUTE between my HOUSE and BOTH the public and university libraries</p>
<p>studying too much history and not enough social science (esp. econ)</p>
<p>mixed:
not seeking research earlier (this was previously a regret, but I kind of see breadth first, depth second as my preferred approach more in line with my interests and talents)</p>
<p>and i don’t know if my plans would have been realistic since I didn’t have 3 years of CC and AoPS archives to look over back when I was in 9th grade</p>
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I’m kind of trying to help CT do exactly what I would have done if I had the chance to go through it all over again (and yes CT, this includes taking APs and SAT IIs)</p>
<p>Not getting my driver’s license a year ago. (Now I’m in college and I have to fly back home to take the road test.)</p>
<p>Missing the AIME floor by one point. Boo, I suck. :p</p>
<p>Talking to Catherine. Now I know the perils of doing research with plagiarizing whores!</p>
<p>All in all, not much.</p>
<p>Wow, I was rather expecting more replies, I guess not many people have atleast one regret from highschool…</p>
<p>I have alot of regrets from high school. Just thinking of high school gets me so ****ed of. I just want to forget.</p>
<p>Why’d you put a semicolon in the thread title?</p>
<p>Same as lauralice. Not getting involved in school earlier.</p>
<p>Deciding never to swear again when I was in third grade. I’ve stood by it ever since and will never turn against it for fear of being a hypocrite. Fudgemuffins, why’d I do that goshdarn thing?</p>
<p>I don’t know if I really can regret the above though. It’s all based on probability (as all highly unusual decisions are - they have high rates of catastrophic failure, but also higher rates of astounding success). In some worlds, I would easily regret all of the above. In a few other worlds though, where I’m at is ideal. I really sacrificed my university GPA by carrying on self-education ON TOP of a full class load. But if I can still get recognized (somehow), then I will probably have no regrets (one of the reasons why I have so much drive is precisely because I realized how behind I was come 9th grade). Were I self-educated from 6th grade on, I may not have never developed a drive to “catch up”, a drive that has transformed itself to massive curiosity.</p>
<p>my brother has always been academically ahead of me - he even surpassed my 9th grade abilities when he was in 7th grade. but now he’s lost his advantage (due to his lack of curiosity, lack of passion…).</p>