If you could go back and change one thing.....

[StormCrazyIowan]

Someone may have asked a question like this before, but I missed it if they did!! I have given it a lot of thought lately, and I think it is a neat question! Though most of us are happy with our lives and wouldn't want to change much, I am sure there is at least a little thing we would all like to do differently!! So here is mine:

If I could change anything, I would have spent more time on learning in school!! I have always been on the "smart" side (well, at least according to all of the ITED sort of tests we had to take, I was always at least two grade levels ahead); however, I never took any classes that gave me a challenge! I never had to study because I understood what I was doing and slid right by very easily. Finally, my senior year, I took a few classes that I knew would be a challenge (advanced placement), and when I realized I actually had to study and apply myself, I choked!! I had NO idea how to build good study habits, so I dropped out! (Well, I also had "senioritis", lol, but mainly it was because I wasn't doing well!) Thankfully, I loaded myself down with classes my first three years of high school, so I only needed one credit to graduate and was able to go back the last quarter of my senior year and graduate on time, but I still have yet to learn how to apply myself the way I know I could!!
Nothing would please me more than to go back to school and recieve my degree in Meteorology, but I have a few things going against me. First of all, I can't afford it right now! Second, I already have taken one semester of school, and had the same problem with studying and bombed all my classes but one, so I've given myself a tarnished record and I have to pay that money back! Also, since I messed up my senior year, I never did get to take my ACT or SAT tests, so that hurts me as well! (I did take an ACT equivalency test when I went to that semester of college, and did very well on it.) I just don't understand why certain tests say I have potential, yet I have no idea how to get to it!! If I don't manage to learn to apply myself, then I will never achieve my goals, and that is my biggest fear! So, with that novel, lol, that is what I would change; I would go back, and challenge myself everyday to develop the skills I am lacking!

Anyone else have something they would do differently? I know you do, so speak up!

[breeze]

LOL, I wouldn't have married #1 - of course, then, I
would have probably finished my music major in college,
and, would have been a music teacher in high school,
and, not a nurse....Second, I would not have married #2 -
...but, then, I would not have had to endure the low self-esteem
thing that made me the the tough old firecracker that I am,
now! Hmmmm....LOL....on second thought, maybe I wouldn't
change anything....

Is this starting to sound like a circus, yet?

[Stephanie]

I would probably say not get married the first time. HOWEVER, I truly believe that I needed to go through that experience in order for me to grow. It's made me the person that I am now.

What I think I'd really like to do is go back to when I was in grade school and kick the crap out that bully Kenny O'Connor that beat up on me, my brother and a whole host of others.

[wxid]

SCI - same thing....school.... i wish they had told me i WHAT Algebra was good/needed for. They do NOW. But back then (20 years ago) the teachers ALWAYS said 'I don't know, lots of things'. Now they actually incorporate it into interactive PC learning programs that show you how/why/where to do it in its REAL setting . I was one of the kids who became disinterested if the teacher was just yapping rote, instead of challenging kids via a thorough knack from their own perspective. Not that teachers do this now, but PC's can do it good enough.
wxid

[StormCrazyIowan]

LOL good anwsers!!

Annette, you were going to be a music teacher? Awesome!!

[Derek Ortt]

I would be a bit more assertive and not allow my time to be wasted as easily as it often is, mainly due to indecision and the like. However, I am working on this and making sure that this does not happen in the future

[stormy]

sci, i have been told that u can contact act or psat and take the test again. do it while u r young. i could kick myself in the butt for taking the easy way out of college. dont get me wrong i loved teaching, but i wanted to be accountant. i love working with numbers. breeze u r to funny.

[coriolis]

I wouldn't change anything, even though I made lots of dumb mistakes and learned from them, I think. However I did it, here I am!

But now I've got my kids for better or worse. If I had done things differently, I could have ended up in a diffeent circumstance and not had them, or not even be here myself. And what if I never had joined S2K? (Shudder)

That's the old conundrum of time travel.

[StormCrazyIowan]

I never took either test the first time! But I would like to take them!!!

Yeah, I wouldn't really want to change how the rest of my life has gone, I just wish I would have made smarter decisions about schooling, you know?

[Guest]

would have been a music teacher in high school,
and, not a nurse....

Breeze would you elaborate on this a little more? I'm a nursing student and I'd really like to hear what you have to say about the nursing field. Thanks!

...Jennifer...

[azskyman]

I'm finally beginning to learn something about the world around me...what it is, why it is like it is, and what is most important along the journey of life. And here I am, 57 years old and finally soaking in a little wisdom.

I'd love to have been a pilot. I would have finished my MS. And maybe, just maybe, I might have hung in there as a teacher.

I still love watching a student light up when he or she is motivated to learn.

[StormCrazyIowan]

A little wisdom? You are single-handedly the most sage person I know!! I'm happy you even took the time to read my post!

Education is everything to me, and graduating high school is the best thing I've ever done! Graduating college would be the highest point of my life, so one way or another I will make it happen!

[streetsoldier]

Two things...I would never have left the STL MPD; the other one is "private".

[azskyman]

Jacki Lynne. Let me know, young lady, when graduation day comes. I will indeed send you a card right to your front door!!!!

[StormCrazyIowan]

Thank you!! Years away I'm sure, Met school is 4, and I still have basics to cover, but with support like this, I am sure I will get the job done!

[ColdFront77]

I am not sure where to go with this topic. Sure there are things I'd like to change, but with the progress in my life being non existent to slow...

[southerngale]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy....soooooo many things! I'll work on a list and have my secretary fax it over. Dang, I don't have a secretary!!

[StormCrazyIowan]

LOL Kelly!

[azsnowman]

Well.....there's only ONE thing I'd like to go back and change, meeting Michelle earlier! I am so thankful that I have my kids but after the divorce I was single for over 6 years, dated quite a few *ahem* women over those 6 years and never found the right one until Michelle walked into my life. Other than that........I'm VERY satisfied with my life!

Dennis

[Miss Mary]

Like Annette, I wouldn't have married #1. Or even had one single date with him. Ahhh, but we can't go back in time, but oh if we could, that's my biggie. Have a few others though - go to college right after HS, wouldn't eat peanut butter while pregnant with my first baby (I've explained that before) and I would have literally ran to my colon doc as soon as my cancer symptoms started. There was a voice in the back of my head saying - this isn't normal that I wish now I would have paid attention to. I did finally but after several months. A few months can make all the difference in the world with what type of surgery you end up with......but I'll stop. Have to appreciate where I'm at today - alive, healthy, happily married and with 2 wonderful daughters. So life's good! And I've found the very best internet support group - my Storm2K family and dear friends.

Mary