Regrets are the worst. We don’t need them and we shouldn’t have them, but that doesn’t stop us. I think there will always be something we wish we might have done differently. University is a whole big and crazy experience, there are so many new and exciting opportunities, but it’s also so easy to miss out on things and\/or make mistakes. Here are a few of the regrets my (about to graduate) friends have:<\/p>\n
My undergrad degree experience has generally been amazing. There aren’t many things that I regret doing\/not doing. I think maybe if I had to pick something, it would be that I wish I’d picked flatmates more carefully. Good friends don’t always make good flatmates, and being more objective about it all, being less afraid to make a call and tell it like it is, is so important. Important for the long-term good of the friendship and just for my own sanity. I think it would have been very beneficial.<\/p>\n
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In my first year, I got very drunk a little too often, and would then find myself hooking up with people that I wouldn’t have if I had been sober. They weren’t great experiences and I wouldn’t have minded so much if it hadn’t been for people finding out all about it. I didn’t like everyone knowing my business. People seemed to make it a big deal and take things from it that I didn’t like.<\/p>\n
I wish I had been more picky with my living situation. Living with friends is hard but I did it anyway not wanting to disappoint anyone. I’ve lost friends because I chose to live with them.<\/p>\n
I don’t think I took enough risks in my four years at university. I never blew my budget to go and do something crazy or experience something new and I wish I had. I definitely worried too much about my grades at times and my own reputation too – what people thought of me. For those reasons I feel like I didn’t live as fully as I could have.<\/p>\n
I definitely put too much time into relationships and it detracted from my overall experience at uni. I sacrificed things for my relationships and didn’t go as wild as I could have at times. They gave me a lot too, it wasn’t all awful, but I wish I’d spent more time on me rather than the majority of my time on them.<\/p>\n
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I’ve done so much while I’ve been at uni, but I do regret not being quite involved enough in some specific things. I’ve been able to experience a lot, but I never stuck around in a society long enough to work my way up in it. Lot’s of my friend’s got to be presidents of societies, and I’d have been great at that, but I never got the chance which is sad.<\/p>\n
There are SO many sports teams at our uni and I wasn’t sure which one would be the right one for me. I tried far too many sports, involving myself in way too many sports clubs and It was just exhausting. None of them were the ones for me either, so I did waste a lot of time and money. The sports nights out were amazing though!<\/p>\n
I dived in so hard. And it ruined my body for the next couple of years. My workload increased too so nights out, in general, got a bit tamer and far less frequent, but I definitely destroyed a part of my soul through first year drinking. Probably created a couple Horcruxes. Who really knows what happened. I certainly don’t remember much.<\/p>\n
I regret not being as sexually free as I could have been. I didn’t really go on a lot of dates and often ended up being single and sexually barren, or in a relationship. I had some really great times being both of those things, but I wish I’d played the field a little more. Broken some rules.<\/p>\n
This is something I regret, and also don’t regret. Working part-time during term time allowed me to have the whole of my holidays free, and lot’s of money to spend. I made great friends and got promoted twice, so I worked hard and was rewarded. But I had such a small amount of time in which to see my friends, go out, or just finish all of the work I had. It was extremely hard, and I wish I’d had enough money to live and study without having to work.<\/p>\n
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Regrets are the worst. We don’t need them and we shouldn’t have them, but that doesn’t stop us. I think there will always be something we wish we might have done differently. University is a whole big and crazy experience, there are so many new and exciting opportunities, but it’s also so easy to miss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25138,"featured_media":142675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1793],"tags":[18398,8120,8148,8057],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-142674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uni-life","tag-drama","tag-friends","tag-regret","tag-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n