What do you wish you had known then?

[technoflutemom]

What do you wish you had known back in your teenage years that you known now, particularly relating to education?

I wish I had known that my permenant record was just that! Transcripts follow you and a bad grade is hard to overcome -- might have inspired me to get out of bed some mornings or study a little later.

I wish I had known that just because life veers you away from your original course, you're not a failure.

[Slashmire]

That even if 2-years course sometime cram more information to you, employers have a hard time acknowledging it from a 4-year wide university course.

[jangozo]

i had to know studying smart is most important... make your best score cheating teachers.. everyone did that[i was even lazy to do that and my scores were bad but i managed to get into architecture university] .. but studying smart means you should learn what you will use, not some blablabla useless information. Also learn what you will need in life to remember it for longer that the test passes and such:)
but now time past im in university and im trying to study what i will need in practice not in next exam/s or so on.
Gluck to everyone - study harder now so you have easier life later~~!

[Kyle]

:mrgreen: You guys are hilarious

[LilOne1989]

Oh man did I blow off school when I was a teen. But I was a bit more worried about not landing in jail for killing my step mother so school came in a very distant last. I only graduated high school cause my boyfriend/current husband said he would leave me if I quit. I graduated but with a nice little bulging belly from our now almost 15 year old son. I didn't realize how important school was until my kids started going to school and I realized how much I had thrown away. I'm still trying to find ways to make it up.

[DJDizzy1]

You have to pursue the interest that are important to you. It really doesn't matter how good you are at something, or how much other people try to encourage a particular interest. If you have no passion for it you will just end up miserable and resentful.

[kelkat]

I wish I had know that professors aren't gods and that you can contest a grade that you think was wrong. It's been 10 years since I graduated college and I'm just finding that one out!

[tater03]

I would have to agree with you on your transcripts following you. I wish I would have thought more of how what I did then could effect what I do now. But I guess that is just normal when you are a kid.

[technoflutemom]

Oh, I have to agree about professors not being gods! I actually let my professors dissuade me from the career path I wanted because they all put it down. Looking back, I am convinced it was just a case of sour grapes. They regret they didn't go down that path, so they put down the kids who were trying to.

[Slashmire]

Heh, yeah teachers are humans too.. I guess the older we became, the more we came to realize it :\