One of the few things I genuinely wish I'd done differently in my past, one of the few regrets that doesn't seem to be going away, is taking chemistry at Reed. I used to think "I could've gotten into Reed if I'd done Young Scholars" but that's not even where I come from now; UO is fine. It's the class itself; honors chem is also fine, but why didn't I take it last year? Taking O-chem as a freshman would have been awesome, not to mention the breathing room I would have for satisfying requirements. Yes, the schedule was a pain in the ass, but I could have tried harder. I could have sacrificed English and left some classes early and gone late to others; high school is largely a load of crap anyway, so why not blow it off to go to college?
I was too much married to MLC and high school and my community. I guess a tight community is not a universally good thing. In the process of clinging to it, I didn't do enough to make senior year not a waste of time.
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Ouch! This is of course perfectly natural, but dang, it is hard to hear. Don't beat yourself up! You always make the best choice with the information at hand. So, now you have more information. Yay, universe!
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