What is the one thing you most regret NOT having done prior to going to college?

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<p>“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” (Sydney Harris)</p>

<p>I’m taking a gap year and will be applying for college next year (Class 2013). So now that you’re all in colleges, what is the one thing you most regret NOT having done prior to going to college? I’m just wondering that since I hope to spend my gap year doing sth which I should really do but didn’t do while I was in high school. Did you wish that you had spend more time socializing, learning extra skills, doing independent research or… dating?</p>

<p>Please give me some advice!</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>picking an out of state school!</p>

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<p>I personally would never choose to take a gap year, but if you do definitely choose something productive because otherwise your prospects will not have changed, and in fact will have decreased,</p>

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<p>CollectivSynergy: “because otherwise your prospects will not have changed, and in fact will have decreased”.</p>

<p>I’m sorry but could you make it a bit clearer for I don’t really get it? TWhat prospects are you talking about? Thnx!</p>

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<p>Did you ever wish that you had learnt sth particular while you were in high school, like art, IT course or anything? Did you wish that you had spent more time doing sth?</p>

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<p>Getting my driver’s license. (The first day I’m allowed to take the test is January 4th. I have to come back to school by January 6th…)
Getting some sort of credit card (now how am I going to buy music off the Internet?)
Learning linear algebra properly (hey, just because I took a class in it last year doesn’t mean I actually know anything).
Beating ADOM. (I really like the game, but I never have time to play it anymore…)</p>

<p>Edit: I have 314 posts. Yay!</p>

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<p>“Getting my driver’s license”. Yeah that’s an interesting one.</p>

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<p>prospects for college</p>

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<p>Getting some sort of credit card (now how am I going to buy music off the Internet?)</p>

<p>Use your debit card.</p>

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<p>I wish I would have taken more AP classes.</p>

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<p>I’m geussing fizix is grouping credit and debit cards into one thing.</p>

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<p>Play a sport.</p>

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<p>Agreed, getting my driver’s license and getting a job. I didn’t do either because I was apathetic, and I really should have!</p>

<p>Be in a play or musical at school…</p>

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<p>Joining more clubs and activities in High School and drinking more (lol).</p>

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<p>Studying more and hooking up with girls as opposed to being in a relationship.</p>

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<p>Some of these are pretty funny. I envy some of these people though: I wish I <i>didn’t</i> work in high school. I wish I took the time to have a life and get a driver’s license. But I wouldn’t do more ECs. I did one and that was enough for me.</p>

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<p>We have a bunch of outstanding college students who hardly regret anything. Hello?</p>

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<p>I wish I’d learned more about history and politics. Growing up, I attended so many schools in different school systems and countries that my knowledge of both is patchy at best, and I feel like a bit of an idiot in some discussions here. I’ve been trying to catch up by reading about it, but it’s hard to do without any guidance, and with classes and extracurriculars I’m pretty busy.</p>

<p>Other than that, I honestly have no regrets. I didn’t like high school much, but I’m loving every moment of college (er, and the only reason I’m on CC now is that I’m “writing a paper”).</p>

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<p>taken aps that would have gotten me credit</p>

<p>too many math and science, not enough humanities or social studies</p>

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<p>I have the opposite problem…too many history/social science, not enough math/science. Although I would’ve failed AP Bio, AP Chem or AP Phys.</p>