What would you do differently if you were able to get in a time machine and go back to your first day of high school? I'll have a nervous breakdown if I think of all the opportunities I fucked up

Quote: (06-24-2013 09:48 PM)houston Wrote:  

What would you do differently if you were able to get in a time machine and go back to your first day of high school? I'll have a nervous breakdown if I think of all the opportunities I fucked up

Absolutely nothing.

Except maybe spend more than 20 minutes a day on homework and go out of state for college.

Highschool remains the highlight of my life. It was fucking awesome.

Go out for the baseball team....and at least attempt that sport.

We were too busy worried about "who girls paid more attention to" and went for football, basketball, etc. I had NO IDEA that baseball players would end up making the most money and all of it being guaranteed.

Just graduated. Ah, the regrets are endless...

I would have taken the College Now option and done my junior and senior years in the neighboring community college. The students at our local CC were way more numerous and interesting than my HS classmates(largely a bunch of robots whose lives revolved around grades), and the number of attractive women was far, far higher.

I probably would have abstained from running cross country. I would have wrestled during the winter, run a sprint during Track season, and taken up boxing or MMA throughout the summer and fall. I would have joined the Leadership committee, volunteered less(fat waste of time), taken more AP classes(to inflate my GPA), and worked harder my sophomore year, when I absolutely just slacked off. I would have taken Spanish instead of Chinese(which, in my school at least, was fucking hard to learn if you didn't have some prior experience with it) and busted ass at it. I would have done some study-abroad-ish programs over the summer.

Finally, I would have gotten a college coach in Freshman year, so the application process was less confusing for me.

Girlwise I would have started lifting after 8th grade and actually spent some time on my look. That by itself probably could have gotten me pussy early on, which would have compounded itself throughout the rest of high school. I also would have started daygaming earlier(maybe starting summer of junior year), and gone to more teen nightclubs, which, where I live, were slut goldmines until a couple months ago. A little bit of game, coupled with some muscle and good dress sense, would have landed me a lot of pussy.

I wouldn't have started shit with the popular crowd in my Freshman year(kids, take note: this is literally one of the worst things you can do to yourself in high school).

I would have made many, many more friends from other schools. To do this, I would probably would have stayed in Boy Scouts; my troop claimed members from every major public school in the area, giving me opportunities to network that I failed to take full advantage of. I've found that girls are far more down to hook up with guys that don't go to their school. Not only do they have no preconceived notions of your status, but, if you emphasize privacy, there's no real danger of their friends finding out about it. Furthermore, my experiences are solely based on girls from other public schools, which, being co-ed, are full of male competition. Girls from all-girl schools would likely be even easier.

But anyways, I'm going to UCSB for college, so high school can suck my natural brown dick.

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Test out of classes, summer school as often as needed to graduate at 16 or sooner. Get emancipated at 16, take up a trade, and start building up life experiences while learning on my own via library/internet/bookstores.

Secondary and higher education is a circle jerk. Could've done without them.

Personally, what was done is done. I sometimes worry about all the opportunities I missed but hey, it's valuable wisdom for the next time something pops up. You don't want to be one of the people who peaked in high school.

Houston you're short aren't you? Maybe you don't need a time machine, just put a school uniform on and enroll in primary school, nobody will notice.

I would have studied more to get free rides to school and gotten the hell outta there and into college as a junior. Fuck high school, my hometown and all those douchebags who inhabit it.

I would have bought my first guitar four years earlier.

I dropped out, toured with the Grateful Dead and generally did whatever the fuck I wanted to. I paid for it for the next 7 years or so after I turned 18, it took that long to get on the right track. I would have learned to code and had more sex, and maybe played more team sports to realize my genetic potential.

I would have started working out seriously, eating well, and attempted to sleep as much as possible (rather than playing computer games.) Other than that not much. HS sucked at the time, but I don't think cutting school a year early would have provided any benefit.

A decade out, none of the girls from my class are attractive anymore, and I envy no male. There is nothing in my mind that other people were doing that I should have done that would make my life better today. Guys that were banging hot chicks now have kids with fat chicks and ugly chicks. No thanks.

Banged so many more girls.... I dunno what I was thinking, waaaay to picky, there was one super hot girl I look back on a regret being such a idiot. Her name was Gigi and she was tan had big boobs an butt an super thin waist but she had one crooked tooth... she tried to get with me an I was like ewwwww go on snaggle tooth.

I have dreams a lot where I go back to highschool

I dont know. Spent more time with the computer geeks (I graduated in 1997, prime time for internet biz)?

I loved high school. I fought who I needed to in grade 9, so high school was non violent for me.

I was friends with all sorts of groups.

Wrenched on my charger with moterheads.
Built furniture with the hippies in woodshop.
Hockey with the jocks.
Advanced physics.
Practiced guitar with some talented guys.

Lost my virginity 3 times (to three different girls)

Had lots of sex (almost 2 years) with one of the best looking girls I ever had (I still high five my 17yo self).

Of course high school is a strange time for most guys. Emotions, puberty, awkwardness, betaness, all these things make for some tough days.

So maybe I would care less of what other people thought of me. Thats a hard one in high school, but would make a more well rounded, balanced teenager.

Cripes, in HS I was so fucking beta, omega even. 9th Grade I stalked this chick, everyone called me out on it. I did dry hump her at the homecoming dance, but then her friends threw themselves at me so I would leave her alone. It was my omega strategy. I called it raiding. You go after one target, then settle for the other girls who try to help out their friend by keeping you at bay. Like corporate raiding. 10th grade, I did the same thing, except the chick I targeted I real obsessed wtih. My friends fucked around with me and made me think she liked me. I ended up humping a real obese latina, then became really depressed and spent the rest of 10th grade stabbing people who fucked with me (I played GTA San Andreas everyday back then). Rest of High SChool I just drank Rip it energy drinks and jacked off, was too beta to even talk to chicks. I'd show my 10th or 11th grade self Roosh's protoblog, was Roissy around then as well, or was he more 2008?

I feel like Don Draper confessing my past to a bunch of strangers.

We had two hot foreign exchange students. But since we were a small town, the girls were viewed as weird. They weren't mistreated; they just weren't part of any cool cliques.

One flirted with me but I didn't do anything because I would have been embarrassed about dating her.

I'd go back and her and also some of the hot poor girls.

But there's a lesson. I denied myself pleasure out of a desire to conform to what "cool" people said I should do.

A lot of mistakes are like that. That is, they are universal.

Whatever you did wrong in high school...Are you making the same mistakes now?

Quote: (06-25-2013 10:23 PM)Exactaking Wrote:  

I ended up humping a real obese latina, then became really depressed and spent the rest of 10th grade stabbing people who fucked with me

The fuck?

Quote: (06-25-2013 10:50 PM)The Troubled One Wrote:  

Quote: (06-25-2013 10:23 PM)Exactaking Wrote:  

I ended up humping a real obese latina, then became really depressed and spent the rest of 10th grade stabbing people who fucked with me

The fuck?

Yeah, I worded that wrong. The obese latina wasn't the cause I my depression and stabbing, and by stabbing I mean with a pencil. One of my victims was some commie bastard, I was defending America (even though my goal in life is to renounce citizenship for tax purposes, that was back when I still believed old America existed).

Drop out as soon as I could (which I wanted to do when I was young, anyway), get a TAFE degree and use that to leverage myself into a better position as soon as I hit 18, start working out much earlier and warn myself about the things that cause me to stop, introduce myself to some great books by great authors, explaining why they're great, made sure I didn't end up with a soul crushing job that wasted my weekends, continued to ride BMX, told myself I should challenge everything, banged every last hotty at my school and then gone to a different one after my sporting trips to India and QLD (where I would have also fucked every last hotty I met). Also, I'd explain to myself exactly why I'm telling me to do these things.

However, if I were to change my past, I wouldn't be where I am now. Inserting the knowledge I have now into the old me wouldn't necessarily be entirely beneficial, since I wouldn't be familiar with the reasoning behind the information.

This is funny. I met a h.s. senior Sunday, banged her a few times this week and now she wants me to go with her to homecoming next week. I dont see the benefits of going. Maybe hitting up a high school after party

I would have gotten into MMA and weight lifting.

I was physically small and frail (skinny fat) and dorky as hell in highschool. People picked on me because I was weak. Girls would just laugh at me.

With the knowledge I have now, I would have definitely gotten laid earlier in high school, even despite attending an all-boys school.

However, my biggest regrets are from college, by far. I can't even quantify how much pussy I left on the table in college due to my lack of game. I often wish I could go back to the first day of college with the knowledge I have now. My roommate was mass murdering pussy during freshman year. I used to think to myself, "What does he say/do to all these girls?" The answer that I have realized years later is that he wasn't doing anything special. He just recognized the pussy buffet that was right in front of him, and he wasn't scared to make moves to close the deal. I am not the biggest playboy in the world, but armed with my current knowledge, I would have been nuking pussy that year. Our dormitory building was coed, and it was a wild place. Drugs sex and rock & roll is all I can say to sum it up. Not running through bitches back then is one of my few regrets in life.

Ahh high school. Back when i was beta. Id have banged every girl i could instead of looking for a girlfriend.

Missed out on a lot in both high school and college. 3 year girlfriend through college, oneitis through high school, beta all the way through it. Only learnt real game as I left college. Definitely would have gotten into more physical activities, too, but the biggest thing was learning to be social. I've always been pretty good looking, so it was incongruent when I was anti-social. I'd come across as reserved; no one at my high school knew me well and I spent my time with a couple close friends. However, I was friendly and helpful when people asked, and I was good looking, and intelligent/witty - there were quite a few cute girls that dug me, or that I could have pursued with some good success, had I actually learned social skills. Same with college. Had no game in college and could've gotten laid twice a week at my old frat house.

Not to mention I would have set myself up better for my future. I work hard now, but I could've made it easier on me.

Quote: (09-28-2013 01:57 PM)Plutoman Wrote:  

Missed out on a lot in both high school and college. 3 year girlfriend through college, oneitis through high school, beta all the way through it. Only learnt real game as I left college. Definitely would have gotten into more physical activities, too, but the biggest thing was learning to be social. I've always been pretty good looking, so it was incongruent when I was anti-social. I'd come across as reserved; no one at my high school knew me well and I spent my time with a couple close friends. However, I was friendly and helpful when people asked, and I was good looking, and intelligent/witty - there were quite a few cute girls that dug me, or that I could have pursued with some good success, had I actually learned social skills. Same with college. Had no game in college and could've gotten laid twice a week at my old frat house.

Not to mention I would have set myself up better for my future. I work hard now, but I could've made it easier on me.

I was the same. Too much of a Nice Helpful Good looking fella! where chics could've been had easy.