QOTD: the best years of your life

question of the day: if you could redo high school – would you? why or why not? and if so, what are some key things you’d change?

I would definitely NOT return to high school. It was OK, but life tends to get better with age.

High school was boring, and looking back I was an idiot. I had a crappy relationship, and a bad haircut.

No way. I don't need to go through the awkward phases of my life again. If I could redo college, I would. I'd try to have a lot more fun.

I was like James Dean in HS, fast cars fast women. I guess I would have liked to have a nicer fast car and a better looking women

Sleep

why do all of the qotd's have to do with your personal life?

no, i hated hs

yes

No way, Jose!!!!

hmm...sure. I will make smart investments and be the richest HSer in US. With all that money, I can screw all the cheerleaders ...something I wasn't able to do in HS

I would redo high school in a second!! I wasted the foundation of my higher education (of which I h=now have none). Since I have been out of school, I discovered that I enjoy writing, engineering and have artistic talents that are being wasted sitting in a cubicle. If I could go back, I would take it seriously, get a scholarship and my plans to take over the world will succeed!!

I believe I'm redoing high school right now by working here. Hold on, lemme go book-check this dude in senior hall.

I would redo it and focus on my academics more this time around. Being cool or impressing people would be my last priority because once you graduate, you never see those people again anyway. The so-called "cool people" all end up as losers in life because they never focus on their academics. I could've went to Harvard instead of a stupid state school. I just didn't care back then.

[question asker], are trying to get ideas from us for that un-official "Billy Madison" sequel that you are writing? Stop it.

Nah. High school was painful enough the first time. The benefit of being able to have a little more fun would be outweighed by all the B.S. that comes along with the whole high school experience.

no way...i couldn't stand going to class...if i had to, i would be like uncle rico in Napolean Dynamite and win the football state championship...oh, and i would punch [coworker] in the stomach

My initial thought, yes if I could go back “knowing what I know now”. However, upon further reflection, my answer would be no. There are too many important things in my life today that I would never want to give up.

i would totally redo high school. i would have changed some of my courses, read more, probably even taken AP Bio (and who knows...maybe i'd even be a doctor). perhaps i would have even gone to a different university. i also wrote this letter to a kid i was in love with...i still can't believe i did that. so i'd definately play that game differently. - guess that's it.