This is a question for anyone who is currently in or graduated from high school. If you could start it over and re-do it, what would you do differently? I’m not just talking about the school aspect, but more about that period in your life.
I am just beginning my final semester of school, and looking back, I feel like I’ve wasted a lot of time being lazy and goofing off. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I’m going to do with my life and what I have already done and I realize that I have the potential to be doing a lot better then I am right now.
I would love to be able to re-do high school. I wish I had tried harder (I get good marks, but I could be getting really good marks), and I wish I had played more sports. I also wish I had not spent so many nights sitting around doing nothing because I didn’t feel like doing homework. I wish I hadn’t wasted as much money as I have, and that I worked harder to earn more of it.
I feel pretty much the same as you, except for the wasting money part. I have just recenly started trying just a little harder in school and started getting really high grades, just from very lightly studing. Ohh how I wish I had tried harder in school.
i would’ve wasted more time. i spent my high school career preparing to go to college for astronomy or marine biology. well i ended up being a firefighter where high school grades aren’t really important at all.
I would have done all of high school online and graduated in 1-2years instead of four. School was a huge waste of time, most of which wasn’t spent learning anything. The only benefit of attending for four years was racking up a lot of college credits, which saves me a ton of money when paying for tuition.
Maybe firefighting isn’t the best career choice then?
I wouldn’t really of done anything different in my first three years of highschool. Except last year when I was very close to getting excellence for the year (highest you can get) but didn’t quite make it. I should of worked harder in some areas.
man, i wish i culd start all over again. Its been so much fun from like 8th grade on. More fun then work, Like i actually look forward to going to skool. Just becus i enjoy it so much.
But when it comes to school work. I wish i tryed harder and actually gave an effort. School has never been my thing. And ive always given minumum effort and i havnt studied for a test in like 3 years, and i have a 2.83 i think. Like all Bs and Cs pretty much, Never had a D on a report card. Now that college is coming up. I regret doing all that, becus if i tried i probally culd have been an A student.
To everyone on here who ha just started or going to start HS soon. Learn from me. It can be alot of fun. But make sure you got your priorities straight first.
thats awsume, I wanted to be a firefighter for like the last 5 years. But i got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes like a month ago, Now i have no idea wat i want to do. It sucks, cus i really really wanted to do that. Like there is tears in my eyes right now cus im thinking about how i cant do it. lol
I think the reason high school is such an iconic experience is that that is where much of a person’s social development occurs. The academics are important, but I think the primary purpose of high school is to train children how to be adults. Were I to repeat the experience, I’d pay more attention to the social side, (I was virtually unaware of it when I was there).
I would dress way cooler and have more fun. I would participate in more extracurricular activities including sports. I would find ways to spend even more time in the computer room* (computer lab). Band was a big part of high school for me. The second time around I would take being in the band as an opportunity to learn an additional instrument. And I would take physics.
back then (1979 to 1983 for me), we didn’t have PCs like we have today (obviously). That was when “home computers” were flourishing. Imagine having your very own computer! But the computer at school was something special. It wasn’t anything you could have at home. It was an minicomputer. An IBM System/3 – a big behemoth the size of a washer-drier. A computer operator (Lynda) came in at night to run the programs that we had written on punched cards. In my senior year, they replaced it with a System/34. It had interactive terminals! Green screens. Heaven! Today, I think the computer labs have basically the same stuff most people have at home. Not as exciting. But back then, computers were just being introduced to the masses. And the computers at school were special. They were bigger. They were IBM (back when most people had a sort of reverence for IBM). They were something you couldn’t even dream of owning yourself. It was a magical time which I took serious advantage of (if I could weasel out of gym class I would go to the computer room). If I could do it over again, I would schedule as many extra study periods as possible and spend them all in the computer room. I would ask to stay late and meet the elusive Lynda and have her show me how to operate the system. I regret never even touching the System/3. Closest I ever got was the part of the room with the keypunch machines.
Was it still the 70s when you were in HS? That’s what it made me think of when you said that. I graduated in 1980. In retrospect, it wouldn’t have made much difference if I’d dressed cooler, as it was still the 70s.
I would tell my dad to invest in California real estate, Philip Morris, and the Tandy Corporation and retire early so he would have some down time before his dead time. I would break into the main office and play Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash over the intercom. I would pour apple cider vinegar and yellow food coloring into the swimming pool. I would replace the classics section of the library with issues of Mad Magazine. I would join the drama club. I would ask Coleen Pierpont from my driver ed course out and dump my girlfriend at the time. I would take flying lessons, Spanish, Italian, French, and karate. I would play as much basketball as I could. I would invent the trials unicycle and start doing trials when I was 15 instead of 50. I would never cut my hair in the summer.
LOL, yeah, in the back of my mind I was also thinking the same thing about the fashion of the day. I was in high school 1979 to 1983. Gym class was the worst. Shorts with a two-inch inseam and socks that went up to your knees. Kids these days have it easy. They have better fashion and they’re allowed to use it.
Somehow I don’t think it’s the same Lynda. She was a computer operator by night and a big ? by day. Probably not a teacher.
She was a computer operator by night and a big ? by day. Probably not a teacher.