If you could do high school all over again, would you do anything differently?

I would’ve grown a pair.

Also, if I’d been a great student when I was young, I’d be able to speak a total of 5 languages now. What a shame.

I wouldn’t date the boys I dated. I wouldn’t try to fit in. Sticking out is what I do best.

I might do some things differently. But how I changed and worked on myself in that time made me who I am. I wouldn’t change much, nothing big anyway, I’d suffer through everything that happened – all of it.

I don’t really have any regrets about high school as much as I do about my college experience. I really wished I could re-do the whole thing because I kind of screwed myself. I went to college without a focus on anything, and pretty much dabbled in a little of this and a little of that. I’m in my 20s and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!

I suppose, in hindsight, I would have used high school as an opportunity to fine tune exactly what it was I wanted to do with myself, instead of waiting to get to college to figure it all out.

I would have been nicer.

I don’t think I was a complete bitch, but I definitley wouldn’t have won “most friendly.” I was fairly cold and cliquish. I know know that it stemmed from my own insecurities and anger at myself. I didn’t like me, and I showed it by not liking others.

@asmonet GA. So true for me as well.

I wishI had concentrated on my school work more. I was an A student and gave it all up. I wish I had told my parents about being raped. I wish I hadn’t held it in and tortured myself like that. It destroyed me academically, and emotionally. I lost a huge sense of self during my high school years, and it took me years to gain it back.
But, without all that I wouldn’t be where I am now. I might have been more stable sooner if things had played out different, but I can’t imagine life without the husband and son that I have.

I like that my experience’s have made me what I am today. I was a kid in high school, and I understand that now, and so forgive myself of any atrocities. I do think of the people I bullied sometimes and wish that I wasn’t such a brat that got enjoyment from hurting people. I could have affected them for the long haul, and I’m not proud of that at all.

There was this guy I had a huge crush on my senior year. I wish I’d had more nerve around him, or let him know I liked him. He was one of the cool people, while alas, I was not. We had one class together and talked all the time though. I sort of stalked him, too. He bagged groceries at the local store, and if I saw his truck parked there I’d go in and buy something just to see him. He always came over to whatever lane I was in, and after bagging my groceries (sometimes it was just one item), he’d walk me out to my car. The bag boys always took the groceries out and put them in the car for you. Even if I had one little thing, he’d carry it to my car.

Looking back, I think he was interested in me too (there were other signs but I won’t bore everyone with the details), but I was really shy and didn’t know how to flirt with him or anything. When prom rolled around, he showed up without a date and I wanted to kick myself.

I did work up the nerve to ask him to dance, not realizing it was the last dance of the prom. My date was completely pissed at me and dropped me off at home without speaking to me. One of the best moments of my life!

However, I am really happy with the way my life worked out. Who knows what would be different if I’d stared seeing him? Would I still get my husband and three amazing kids? But wow, what a crush I had on that boy, with his cool motorcycle. My knees would literally shake whenever he talked to me! Thank God I got over that shyness in college or I would have missed out on nine-tenths, I mean half, of the fun I had.

@casheroo: <3

I would never do high school over again. You could not pay me enough.

I would have pressured my parents harder to let me take college classes, and not worried so much about “Being Cool.”

It wasn’t my favorite time. With the benefit of hindsight, I’d have made better choices.

Joined Mensa with my established friends instead of trying to be cool and finding retards to drink, take drugs and get in trouble with.

Taken computer learning classes, accounting classes, attended all the student/job fairs and college prep orientations.

Gotten in the program to be an overseas exchange student.

I’d’ve dug deeper about getting scholarships to uni, gone with CB to the prom and told his snobby, “mean girl” sister to go f%$# herself (and my guardian, too).

yeah, a couple of things…

1. date the girl nobody else wanted to date. she was the one who was really cute but boys did not realize it. she later went on to be a doctor or lawyer or politician or a leader of something, but boys were to naive to know the potential. she finally married somebody, but it just wasn’t you. damn.

2. notice a cute girl in your french class who learns and speaks it well.

3. go to a dance even if you don’t think you fit in. it will change you.

4. take spanish instead of french. you’ll thank yourself later when you are around those who speak it.

5. don’t try to go with the girl with the big booty. she turns out fat at dumpy at the 20-year high school reunion.

6. don’t join a club.

7. go to gym no matter how much you don’t want to. the teacher will fail you.

8. use a condom.

9. that girl who really liked me in sophomore english lit? she’s married and successful with a lot of kids.

10. spend my $10 allowance on white castle hamburgers at 7 in the morning on monday. hey! i have $1.20 left. cool!

I had a crush on a girl in freshman English and on the teacher in that class. I thought it was a good idea, therefore, to sleep in that class most of the time, but if I had to do it over, I’d’ve talked to the girl, and stood behind the classwork I did for the teacher.

There was one instance where I was terrified of getting up in class and reading a paper I’d written, even after that beautiful teacher threatened me with an “F” and said it was perhaps the best submissions in class.

Man, I wish I hadn’t been such a loser during freshman English.

My sophomore English teacher was beautiful in a different way, so she didn’t scare me. She I thanked on the acknowledgements page of my first book, but I probably wouldn’t have been a writer if not for both of them.

Yes – I would have tried a lot harder and took a lot more challenging courses that would’ve helped prepare me for college.

Although I’m doing fine in college, it took me awhile to get where I’m at and I still have a little while to go for my bachelors. I told myself I wasn’t giving up no matter how long it took – but it would’ve been a pleasure to breeze by a lot of the material and be somewhere further than where I’m at now.

I also would’ve joined track or soccer – some sort of physical sport. Video gaming just doesn’t give me that feeling of accomplishment like it used to when I was 5 =D.

My high school experience was OK. I might have done a few things a bit differently if I had known how it would all turn out, but there’s nothing major I would change.

Even college – I made some bad decisions, but nothing I couldn’t recover from. And I made some amazingly good decisions, even though I didn’t realize it at the time. (Hint: it’s never the decisions that you think will be important that wind up totally changing your life.)

If I had a time machine and could go back and change things, I don’t think anything before my college graduation would be in the top 10 things to fix.

I would have abandoned the long hippy hair, it made me look like a fucking dork!

Actually, I did great in high school. I was valedictorian. But oddly enough, I wish I had read more books on my own. And watched more TV. And made friends with, instead of making fun of, the kids who were into rock (which is my music of choice these days. I wish I had spent more time learning about the Ivy League program I was accepted into, so I could have made a better choice.

But most of all, I wish spent more time hooking up with girls. I had my fair share of it, but back then, I had many less hangups than I do now, and it was soooo much easier.

No. Not really. I have a great life even though high school for me (grades, attendance, etc) was complete shit. Wasn’t my fault, and it still actually caused me to have a great life after I graduated.

Everything.. I would have studied more, and be afraid less. Made more friends and enemies. The thing is, without any memory about the first time I feel I would be doomed to make the same mistakes. If for some reason I do get the keep my current state of mind, I feel like I would kill myself after being locked up in a room full of 13–18 year olds for 5 years.

Yup, I would have done drugs for art class, had more relationships and been less timid to start them up, and wouldn’t have taken the entire thing so seriously. That said, being a good person didn’t harm me in any way, it’s just that from my vantage point now, I put too much effort into it whereas I could have scaled it back a bit and gotten the same result.

If I knew then what I know now, I’d have had a lot more dates, and probably even gotten laid. No, I definitely would have gotten a lot more booty. Women would not have had to use birth control with me. Without that worry, I think they’d have come a-knocking at my door once they found out I was a halfway decent guy.

well, I’m still in high school. I am a senior, and I feel good about high school so far. I just need to get into college right about now.

[and to the comment above me, is that a frick’n ass as your flither picture. Come on buddy]

@OhTen Yes, that is an ass. The most famous ass on Fluther, and certainly worthy of respect.

@OhTen It’s a map of the world, buddy. Perhaps you should get your eyes checked for a stronger prescription. Come on!

p.s. it’s fluther not flither