if you were to redo your school days , what would you do differently?

[reecejackox]

i would say i would try to work harder in all my subjects that i took.

 

[tvguy]

i would say i would try to work harder in all my subjects that i took.

Me too. And might also talk back to the English teacher in High School who told me I was a bad writer. Maybe he was right, but I have made my living the last 43 years writing .

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I would take English more seriously in 11th grade, even though I didn't like the teacher or most of what we read.

 

[Micca]

Half days

 

[amberpi]

I would have tried to get into a better college. I got into the flagship state school all my family went to when I was way too young to make that decision and didn't even apply anywhere else. It's one of my biggest regrets TBH. I don't know that I could have done better of course, but I really think I could have. I'll never know now though

 

[jaiminee krikit]

I would have realized one F in PE class really does hurt you. Sophomore year I horsed around and would skip swimming, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal. I got an F. It lowered my GPA significantly, and destroyed my chance to be in NHS. I also would've taken accounting classes in HS. I think that would've helped me be more serious about the future. I'm almost 40 and still don't know what I want to do when I grow up

 

[fla4fun]

I would attend an online school. Working on my own I probably would have graduated early and had a head start on the rest of life.

 

[OhMari]

I would have taken the hard classes like the advanced classes, chemistry, advanced biology, geometry. I took my hardest classes my freshman year and the last 3 years were all fluff classes. My guidance counselor didn’t encourage girls to go to college at all. I had 100 kids in my class and one girl went to a 4 year college and she went to become a gym teacher. I graduated in 1980.

 

[low-key]

try

 

[penn19]

i would say i would try to work harder in all my subjects that i took.

Me too! And gone on to college. My biggest regret in life.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

Taken the SAT or ACT and enrolled in reg er class

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I definitely let some opportunities slip by me. I could have taken more college classes while in high school. I had so many credits that I only took 2 classes my senior year, I wish I would have just pushed through my Junior year and graduated a year early. You know what though? I really enjoyed my sophmore, junior and senior years and I can't regret anything that happened, I had excellent teachers, I attended an awesome alternative school program, and when I graduated I was a better person for having those experiences. What more can you ask for?

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

Drank less, partied less, applied myself a little more in school. I actually had a scholarship offer that I let go simply because I wasn’t interested in furthering my education at the time. As a teenager I thought I knew it all, but I knew very little about real life.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I would have been nicer to everyone. I also could have studied harder.

 

[dotfurio]

I'd break out of my shell more and not worry so much about what others thought of me.

 

[Disneyland1084]

I would have defended myself against school bullies. Looking back, and compared to what goes on now, I didn't have it THAT bad. It never got physical for me, just words.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

High school I would not have played around and played hooky a lot my freshman year. I really went off the rails, and even though I cleaned up my act and spent the rest of my school years getting good grades and being serious about it-making the honor roll for all the rest of the marking periods, it meant that I didn't make the National Honor Society my senior year or get awards. I would also have not let the rest of the school in on the fact that I was a Doctor Who and Star Trek fan. Sad to keep stuff secret, but it got me branded a dork and a nerd and whatever else you call the kids who don't fit in, which was why I started playing hooky in the first place.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I'd have gotten my GED asap and gone right to college and skipped as much school as I could.

 

[Allison]

Nothing. It was great.

 

[lifesavacation]

I would most definitely not waste my time dating the two losers that I did. I'm not sure what my teenage self saw in either of them. Yuck!