Things I didn't do in school...but SHOULD have...

[eyemaker]

Curiosity drives me in, to make this thread. I'd been a silly school boy since I was in my elementary days.. But ofcourse I had change all those pathetic stuffs. :D I remember how my teacher punished me by letting me stay outside under a simmering condition...Pity me!:sick: :sick: I'm curious if you guys had done that too...

I Limited my social circle
-from kindergarten I was a goody-goody little boy to the first years of highschool. I would only hang out with the top students at our class...(hehe):D :D :D
I was too shy to be friends with my teachers
-I drew a huge line between me and the teachers. For me, they were paragons of perfection and inspiration. Who had the responsibility of educating us and nothin more.
I didn't raise my hand more often in class
-I knew the answers most of the time but I didn't bother to raise my hands beacuse I'm afraid of their stares...

[Shea]

I was fine with starting in a new school my senior year.
Looking back I should have found a way to stay in at my old school. It was really hard not graduating with my friends.

[Anza]

I'm only a freshman in high school. I've always made friends with my teachers, but have never been afraid to stand up to them, should they be unjust. The only teacher I will never like was my American History Honors teacher from last year. He kept iserting his political views into his teaching, and he called me a racist on the last day of school. I was about to call Bill O'Reilly on him.

[Dori]

I'm a junior in high school and I don't really regret anything I've done, nor do I think I should have done anything different. I have friends, I respect my teachers, and I participate whenever I feel it is necessary for me to do so (for instance, I don't usually compete with others to answer questions). :)

[Anza]

i do. I threatened to fight somebody for reading the part of Juliet for act Two. I was joking, of course...

[LadyW]

In Primary school I was very compliant with the rules and got through my work relatively easily. I wasn't a shy child and was extremely friendly with all my teachers; I was fairly pleasant to those I wasn't so keen on also.
As far as my classmates were concerned... I was the ultimate "geek" of the year. I was verbally abused and bullied for the whole course of primary school, and I tell you this without seeking any pity. It taught me alot actually about people and I suppose it toughened me up a little - which was rather neccessary considering I was extremely naive and sensitive.
When I entered highschool, I realised that my learning ability was above average, and because the school pushed me - I achieved high grades. I suppose I never have grown rebellious in anyway but I am slightly more opinionated and willnot comply with anything I feel strongly against.

[kratsayra]

I don't really have any regrets until high school. In high school, I should have had more discretion and thought a bit more about what I was saying before speaking.

In high school I thought I was the most awesome thing ever, even though I was a really big dork (that girl answering every single question, and getting an A on everything, that was me) and wasn't friends with the cool kids at all.

Nonetheless, I thought I knew everything and that everyone else needed to know all about my awesome life. It's really embarrassing, now that I think about it, the kinds of things I said, often offensive to other people, and the amount of personal detail I went into without discretion.

For some reason, I still had a group of wonderful friends (some of the best friends I've ever had), that seemed to put up with me. One of them reminds me on occasion, "remember in high school when you said . . . " and it's always some horribly embarrassing thing of which I have absolutely no memory. Geez. :blush:

[Anza]

I'm sure you feel great! WHat kinds of things did you say??

[DeathAngel]

Hm,

-if I acquired more of those "smart" moments, that would've been nice

Being the loud, annoying, nutty, friendly, humorous, and a little -itchy
was just fine for me,
drama kid,
Just went with the flow,

"Time after time..."

[Shalot]

Things I didn't do in school but should have:

1) FOCUSED ON MATH!!! I am correcting that now though and seeing how x and y and the slope are applied in the real world. Wish I didn't get such a late start.

2) I should have been more social.

3) I should have approached my teachers for guidance

[Anza]

Math is a drag. I hate my algebra class

[Shalot]

Math is a drag. I hate my algebra class

I felt that way about it but it's so basic that you really gotta learn it and no one ever tells you that. There are all kinds of advanced math problems that you might possibly want to be able to solve in the real world that require knowledge of algebra. If you get in a calculus class and can't focus on what's being taught because you are trying to remember algebra so that you can solve it, you're at a real disadvantage. My last instructor was always harping on us about algebra. If someone asked something about a problem that had to do with the algebra used to get to the solution, he would get impatient with us.

Personally, I think they should just call all math simply math. Calling it Calculus and Trigonometry Geometry and Algebra is just evil. They should just call all math simply MATH.

[Tersely]

I was in above average class and my only regret for school was not trying to go into Ap or Honors. I was way to advanced for above average but it made my GPA look nice. I wish I could have took the opportunity to learn more. I should have paid attention to the algebra teacher instead of staring at boys. When I progressed into the higher levels of math I just sank further down.

[kratsayra]

I'm sure you feel great! WHat kinds of things did you say??

Just details about my family and other personal relationships. And if I repeated them here I'd be making the same mistake twice! ;)

I went to a Quaker school though, so sharing was often encouraged. I wouldn't say that other people didn't do it too, in certain venues. But I still regret it.

And this I will never forget.
A girl in my class (who I didn't like) asked if we could watch some movie about WWII. I don't remember what it was.
But this is what I said, to the teacher, and in front of the whole class, in response: "If we are going to watch a movie about WWII, why don't we watch something good instead." :blush: oh man, that girl must have hated me.

[aeroport]

I should have been much more forthcoming about my infatuation with one of my senior English teachers (me being the senior here, of course). She was, to say the least, beautiful; she expected a great deal of us (it was a college-level course, quite comparable to my sophomore comp class at uni), and was really rather unsparing. I was, thus, doubly motivated. :D
At any rate, she was married, and too young not still to have been happily so. Plus the news was doing extensive coverage of that grade school teacher who was having an affair with a student... Needless to say, the prudent move was to stay away. But I sometimes do wonder if I might feel a little less...melancholy about things if I'd just sort of said what was on my mind, because there is simply no question of saying it now; it somehow would seem more creepy to hit on this woman (and awkward and strange too, since I don't really know how to "hit on" anyone to begin with) now that I'm out of HS and such things are almost a possibility...

[Pensive]

Ask me about the things in school that I did but shouldn't have and I would have some to tell you about.

[Shalot]

I should have been much more forthcoming about my infatuation with one of my senior English teachers (me being the senior here, of course). She was, to say the least, beautiful; she expected a great deal of us (it was a college-level course, quite comparable to my sophomore comp class at uni), and was really rather unsparing. I was, thus, doubly motivated. :D
At any rate, she was married, and too young not still to have been happily so. Plus the news was doing extensive coverage of that grade school teacher who was having an affair with a student... Needless to say, the prudent move was to stay away. But I sometimes do wonder if I might feel a little less...melancholy about things if I'd just sort of said what was on my mind, because there is simply no question of saying it now; it somehow would seem more creepy to hit on this woman (and awkward and strange too, since I don't really know how to "hit on" anyone to begin with) now that I'm out of HS and such things are almost a possibility...


you probably made the right decision. :) There was a student teacher relationship at my old high school and they got caught. The student went around bragging about their relationship to his buds and news leeked out. Oh, and she got pregnant :rolleyes:

[aeroport]

you probably made the right decision. :) There was a student teacher relationship at my old high school and they got caught. The student went around bragging about their relationship to his buds and news leeked out. Oh, and she got pregnant :rolleyes:

Well, see, that's a very good example of how I would not have went about it. *makes horrified face*
But still, probably for the best, indeed.

[kratsayra]

Well, see, that's a very good example of how I would not have went about it. *makes horrified face*
But still, probably for the best, indeed.

Yes, I think you probably made the right decision as well. Especially if she was happily married and not given to affairs with her students, it probably would have just contributed to awkwardness. This way, you can keep dreaming, which is better than having had your dreams shattered (or maybe you want that . . .). She may have been flattered, but some things are better left unsaid, no matter how much you wish you could have said them. Take it from someone who's teaching now. ;)

[eyemaker]

Yes, I think you probably made the right decision as well. Especially if she was happily married and not given to affairs with her students, it probably would have just contributed to awkwardness. This way, you can keep dreaming, which is better than having had your dreams shattered (or maybe you want that . . .). She may have been flattered, but some things are better left unsaid, no matter how much you wish you could have said them. Take it from someone who's teaching now. ;)

Thats right I have encountered that certain situation...which eventually made me smile(hehE):D :D

[aeroport]

Yes, I think you probably made the right decision as well. Especially if she was happily married and not given to affairs with her students, it probably would have just contributed to awkwardness. This way, you can keep dreaming, which is better than having had your dreams shattered (or maybe you want that . . .). She may have been flattered, but some things are better left unsaid, no matter how much you wish you could have said them. Take it from someone who's teaching now. ;)

I will do that. Thanks.

[imthefoolonthehill]

my chief regret from high school is not getting kicked out. If only I could do it all again...