Regrets Options

[JerzDevil]

If you had to spit our your biggest regret you've ever made in your life, what would it be? Well here's my big regretful story. During freshman year in HS, I failed a lot, did a lot of slacking because I never took freshman year seriously. I was pissed until I found out colleges look at your freshman grades too. (I didn't know that before) ... but it was too late after I found out. By that time, freshman year was already over. I failed like 3 courses. Now last year f**ks up my chances of going into a decent 4-year college. I always thought before I started my freshman year that freshman year is just a motha f**kin warm-up and colleges don't care about that freshman year bullshit. That has to be my biggest regret. f**king up freshman year (kind of purposely)

Second would be: Spending all my paper in one day. SMH

[EddieV]

No regrets, I learn from my mistakes.

[freeflow]

Trusting my "father figure" as much as I did.
& Messing up my Junior year in high school.

[DoubleJ]

^ The exact same thing, but I look at it as a blessing in disguise. I slacked off at one of the top schools on the east coast, and wound up getting kicked out. I went to another school and got kicked out of that one as well before landing in a military school. I guess my point is that, although I regret not doing good the first time, I wouldn't have met the friends that I have today, and I wouldn't have learned the valuable lessons that I have learned.

One thing I do regret though, is letting my father take advantage of me and trying to turn me into him.

[jaeman]

You could always go to a community college, get rid of your basic freshman courses then transfer to a 4-year university. It's actually easier that way rather than trying to get straight into one right after high school.

Back on topic, I don't sit on top of my regrets. If I do something and it's wrong, I accept it and move on. Life's better like that and you get less white hairs, too.

[JerzDevil]

Man, y'all don't know how much I regret my freshman year shit. I wish someone could've f**king told me college looked at your freshman grades. I've always thought freshman year grades and results don't count .. so I was like "blah it's freshman year. college ain't gonna look at that year anyways when i apply. might as well just have fun this year etc" ...... and like 10 days after my freshman year ends, i find out ...... just breaking me off. what the hell was i thinking?

[JerzDevil]

You could always go to a community college, get rid of your basic freshman courses then transfer to a 4-year university. It's actually easier that way rather than trying to get straight into one right after high school.

Back on topic, I don't sit on top of my regrets. If I do something and it's wrong, I accept it and move on. Life's better like that and you get less white hairs, too.

naw community college? what the hell? my parents ain't gonna be dumb enough to pay my tuition/fee or whatever the hell it's called for a COMMUNITY COLLEGE ... they told me. they said going to a regular, decent 4-year college is a MUST for me .... or they're just gonna lose interest and send me to the navy or some shit. f**k, i wish i could bring back the beginning of september 2006 and start all over. luckily for my cousin tho he went to a community college somewhere located in the OC ... did well and he transferred to one of the CSU Colleges ... but for me, it ain't gonna happen.

[DoubleJ]

I don't neccessarily regret anything, as I too believe that you learn from your mistakes, but if there ever was one thing that I would take back, it would be the whole father thing.

[jaeman]

Man, y'all don't know how much I regret my freshman year shit. I wish someone could've f**king told me college looked at your freshman grades. I've always thought freshman year grades and results don't count .. so I was like "blah it's freshman year. college ain't gonna look at that year anyways when i apply. might as well just have fun this year etc" ...... and like 10 days after my freshman year ends, i find out ...... just breaking me off. what the hell was i thinking?

You could apply for online classes at BYU and redo those freshman courses you failed. Because one good thing about these online classes is that when you pass them with say, a B, your failing grade is totally replaced with that B. Which is good so there's no trace of a failing grade, anywhere.

And wouldn't it make sense for colleges to look at your freshman year? I mean, when you apply amidst your junior and senior year, the transcripts you'll be sending in have freshman, sophomore and junior year, because you haven't finished senior year. Then when you get admitted, you send your final transcript which has your senior year grades on it.

Don't get me wrong, some colleges don't look at freshman year course grades. Some colleges mainly look at your sophomore and junior year.

naw community college? what the hell? my parents ain't gonna be dumb enough to pay my tuition/fee or whatever the hell it's called for a COMMUNITY COLLEGE ... they told me. they said going to a regular, decent 4-year college is a MUST for me .... or they're just gonna lose interest and send me to the navy or some shit. f**k, i wish i could bring back the beginning of september 2006 and start all over. luckily for my cousin tho he went to a community college somewhere located in the OC ... did well and he transferred to one of the CSU Colleges ... but for me, it ain't gonna happen.

At that same time, that's a good ambition for parents and their child. But you have to be careful about this because, theoretically, if you messed up classes in your freshman year, you're bound to do that in college. Colleges are going to see that and they'll definitely throw your application in the rejected basket.

That kind of attitude towards community colleges is totally wrong. The smartest graduates to ever have graduated from private institutions like USC have been transfers from community colleges. Afterall, just think, it doesn't matter where you started college, what matters is where you're going to get your college diploma.

Money is also a big issue. Just think smart, not image-wise as Hollywood and most of society revolves around today. Think about how much money you could save in community college for things like a car, clothes, or whatever you're passionate about. Or, if you're even smarter, save that money to go to a high-end private institution. Transfers are the biggest things in the college life. I really hate it when high school students choose their colleges based on the image they'll get. College is college, do what you have to, not what society thinks looks good.

[*Steven*]

Trusting my "father figure" as much as I did.
& Messing up my Junior year in high school.

It's because you're black.

[DoubleJ]

It's because you're black.

It must be, because I had the same problem.

[freeflow]

Maybe that's why :)

[*Steven*]

naw community college? what the hell? my parents ain't gonna be dumb enough to pay my tuition/fee or whatever the hell it's called for a COMMUNITY COLLEGE ... they told me. they said going to a regular, decent 4-year college is a MUST for me .... or they're just gonna lose interest and send me to the navy or some shit. f**k, i wish i could bring back the beginning of september 2006 and start all over. luckily for my cousin tho he went to a community college somewhere located in the OC ... did well and he transferred to one of the CSU Colleges ... but for me, it ain't gonna happen.

Did you know that core classes pretty much teach you the same thing no matter where you go, including community colleges, and that they're about 1/5 the tuition of a 4 year? Also the classes in community colleges are smaller and you get more individual attention w/ profs. Also the classes/credits are transferable to any 4 year public college in the state (99% work out of state as well, just not all). Basically, the core classes are taught to conform to a certain teaching schedule and the same ideas/quizzes/tests are administered no matter where you go. The individual college becomes important once you reach your junior/senior year.

[jaeman]

Did you know that core classes pretty much teach you the same thing no matter where you go, including community colleges, and that they're about 1/5 the tuition of a 4 year? Also the classes in community colleges are smaller and you get more individual attention w/ profs. Also the classes/credits are transferable to any 4 year public college in the state (99% work out of state as well, just not all). Basically, the core classes are taught to conform to a certain teaching schedule and the same ideas/quizzes/tests are administered no matter where you go. The individual college becomes important once you reach your junior/senior year.

Amen to the bolded.

That's the best thing about community colleges, cheap tuition, same courses, then there's the ability to transfer to a bigger university, maybe even a private instituion, using the money you've saved in community colleges.

[DoubleJ]

Amen to the bolded.

That's the best thing about community colleges, cheap tuition, same courses, then there's the ability to transfer to a bigger university, maybe even a private instituion, using the money you've saved in community colleges.

Hence why i got to cc. It is just much easier on the wallet.

[jaeman]

Hence why i got to cc. It is just much easier on the wallet.

Where do you study?

[DoubleJ]

Hudson County Community College

[jaeman]

I see, do you plan on transfering to a university?

I go to San Diego State University.

[DoubleJ]

I plan on transferring to either San Diego State, Saint Peter's College, or Montclair State

[Gryffindor-Girl]

No regrets, I learn from my mistakes.

Thats pretty much me as well.

[lkajsfklajskds]

um..there are so many. but i'll tell you my most recent regret (its not that big though)
not doing my homework earlier in the break >.<

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

How the f**k did you not know that colleges look at your freshman year? That would explain why I got a notice my freshman year telling me that all my classes from then on would matter, essentially....but seriously?!?

[*Steven*]

Freshman year isn't too bad, actually. Junior is most important. If you screw up freshman year you can still recover. I didn't do anything at all in High School and I'm fine. I seriously had like a 2.2 GPA in high school. It doesn't matter if you have astounding SAT's and can get into a semi-decent school to get your core classes then transfer to a better one. Then again, one could always do CC.

[JerzDevil]

Freshman year isn't too bad, actually. Junior is most important. If you screw up freshman year you can still recover. I didn't do anything at all in High School and I'm fine. I seriously had like a 2.2 GPA in high school. It doesn't matter if you have astounding SAT's and can get into a semi-decent school to get your core classes then transfer to a better one. Then again, one could always do CC.

My final cummulative gpa for freshman year was way worse than 2.2 rofl. it was in the 1's ... just awful. hopefully, i'll recover.

[*CowerPointyObjects*]

Freshman year isn't too bad, actually. Junior is most important. If you screw up freshman year you can still recover. I didn't do anything at all in High School and I'm fine. I seriously had like a 2.2 GPA in high school. It doesn't matter if you have astounding SAT's and can get into a semi-decent school to get your core classes then transfer to a better one. Then again, one could always do CC.

I'd agree that junior year is most important, but everyone I know who failed classes their freshmen or sophomore years couldn't get into decent schools, even if they brought things up. They probably didn't have the greatest SATs, but do we really think Jason will?