Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start?

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I feel like I would make use of it more if I could do it again. Maybe that’s weird, I don’t know.

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TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d, like, actually study and stuff. I don’t necessarily beat myself up for not studying back then. I just don’t think I was ready for it.

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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me it comes down to: knowing what I do now about myself, would I go back and change things?

School sucked. Not only was it often boring and almost killed any enthusiasm I had for learning, but I was one of those kids who never really had to study to at least keep a B average, and it ended up hurting me in the long run. I was able to just coast through school and never developed the skills to study and for being able to fail and get better at something until after I had already given up on college because I had developed a fear of failure and if I couldn’t get things right on the first try, I would give up.

I guess I’d go back to start learning how to learn and not be afraid of failure earlier in my life, but there are other things I’d much rather go back for. I heard the word “transgender” for the first time when I was a college freshman. It wouldn’t be for another 10 years after that until I could start to really do anything with that information. So yes, I would go back, because I would love to have not spent the entirety of my teens and 20s kind of just existing day to day, going from work to home to work again.

Plus there’s so much good music I missed growing up that I would’ve loved to find when I was younger.

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- jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Regarding music: the concerts I missed out in haunt me!
  
  You seem pretty similar to how I was in school. My way of revisiting that is understanding it now that I’m a teacher. I think it makes me way more effective. Not perfect but able to connect and engage students more as well as encourage them to not fear being challenged.
  
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I used to train kids at their first job and used my experiences in a similar fashion to push them to try new things and go for what they want without fearing failure. I would always tell them, “The biggest difference between you and me is that I’ve been on this floating rock longer than you have, so here’s my experience and the results. Use that info however you want.” Kids should be allowed to make their own choices and mistakes, but be informed on their options as much as they can be so that they can do so safely.
    
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- sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m completely with you, it took so many years till I got into learning again.
  
  That one year before college when I worked at a carpenter (just to get my head straight again after those years of frustration) is still following me, I love my small workshop at home & chipping away on scrap wood, building small furniture here and there.
  
  I feel that when we got our own kids it was kinda therapeutic to me in that regard, plus it’s just fun to get a bit of revenge, let’s say our kids teachers were very relieved as they completed school and I wasn’t on theiy got rid of that maniac dad 😈
  
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    To this day I wish I had been able to take a year off after high school, maybe just taken some classes like life drawing classes or something that didn’t have the pressure of getting good grades attached to them to break out of that fear of failure habit and avoid burnout. I went to college for art&animation in the game industry, and stopped drawing for 10 years because of the burnout I got after 2 years of college.
    
    It sucks because I absolutely love learning new things, but can’t stand a structured learning environment anymore. Give me YouTube videos and online guides and I’ll suck them down all day. I’d love to be able to do a lot of traveling again for the same reason, seeing new things and learning new stuff about different people and places is a joy. But put me in a classroom and I’ll fall right asleep and retain nothing.
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d go back to highschool and take different classes for a better direction and then actually go to them and do my homework.

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Fridgeratr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I do wish I could, but this time on anxiety meds. I finally started them a year or so ago and it’s been completely life-changing. I can’t even imagine how much better my school experience and social life would have been…

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Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would have gotten an engineering degree instead.

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squiblet@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The experience was torturous overall, but considering it’s basically time travel and I’d know everything about the future up to 2024, I think I’d do a lot better at everything a second time around. I’d be amazingly good at BASIC and Pascal when I was 7, and would definitely buy that Amiga C compiler this time. I’d be pretty bored with all the 8 and 16 but Sega games since I already played them but I’d also get an SNES, since I missed all that last time. School would be easy af, and i’d feel like a pervert dating middle and high school girls so might as well just test out and get a PhD when I was 12 or something.

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes. I was wrongly diagnosed with a learning disability. Any failure meant the program was necessary. Any success meant the program was working. One time of many, I was actually told “you might be depressed if you fail in the regular classes.” Well, staying in the remedial classes only made me depressed anyway. At least if I did fail they’re, it would actually be my own failure I’m living with.

Now, I’m just trying to get through an online high school so I can bypass community college. I tried CC before, but the “Cs get degrees” attitude I got from the teacher reminded me too much of the remedial classes.

Going back, I would push harder for better classes and if they still refused, just go anyway or transfer. Nothing is worst then living up to their expectations.

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- Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s hard but worthwhile swallowing one’s pride to check the necessary boxes that allow opportunity.
  
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  - Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ? That’s a bunch of assumptions. Why do you assume I haven’t found opportunity or success? Just not along the high school diploma path.
    
    Equally important is not to be dissuaded by watching others get by ‘the easy way’, their impact on your life will be fleeting looking back.
    
    What does this even mean?
    
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elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Self reflection is good. Learning from your mistakes is good. Regret is useless. It’s just agonizing over something unchangeable. It’s important not to confuse them, lest you end up dwelling on the past and missing the lessons.

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Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nope. I’ve definitely thought about it, but I’d have to put up with living under my parents again, and that would drive me into some very dark places. I’d also feel like a horrible creep if I tried dating again with all my adult experiences. No, reliving high school is not worth it to me.

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AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nope. I would say I had an average school experience but I don’t think it’s worth reliving.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No. My life kicks ass and I’m luckier than most.

I do wish I could time travel and give my former teachers some advice, like the one who let me do a third grade science project on the Loch Ness Monster but didn’t in any way try to teach me skepticism.

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pmw@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wish I could go back and experience myself experiencing it, so I could see what aspects of my current self were there all along, what parts I picked up along the way, and exactly how those ideas were planted and grew.

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Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If I kept all my memories, 100%. I could achieve so much more by building off of what I’ve learnt.

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- Bahalex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As my poor old grandad would say :
  
  “I wish that I knew what I know now When I was younger I wish that I knew what I know now When I was stronger”
  
  I laughed at all his words, I thought he was a bitter old man.
  
  He may have been speaking of something else, though, it still applies here I think.
  
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  - MisterFeeny@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He might've been speaking of women's ways. Just a guess though.
    
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Elephant0991@lemmy.bleh.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Oh, the horror! I think I did the best I possibly could, given the circumstances.

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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Honestly if I could go back and just not do college at all I would. I regret going, we are heading into a world that unless you have experience in the field the title is worthless anyway, and more and more companies are dropping education requirements. All I see is the wasted money which is approximately now at 30-40k now.

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BTWhale@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t think the sentiment is weird at all. One of the best things I got out of school was the ability to search out credible resources on my own and continue my own education (albeit a bit stunted without structured guidance.) We have an awesome lens into each and every domain of human knowledge – the internet – and we ought to use it while we have it.

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dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d buy a sports almanac and happily repeat any prior years of my life

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- Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  OK Biff lol
  
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- IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t even need to do that. Buy bitcoin until it hits $1200, sell, buy again once it drops to like $300ish, sell when it hits $50k. Ez billions. I could have mined it in high school when it was like 10c each. Buying it would have been harder then, people were literally trading USB drives on Craigslist lol.
  
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ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would really focus on math and study habits.

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clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No I had a phase of that but these days I think my curriculum fucking sucked.

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n0m4n@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was never really a child. It was hardwired into me. Life is far better now.

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psud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe back to small childhood (despite my other answer) to be able to help my mother be healthier so she would have a better chance of survival when she got an uncommon cancer. I’d do primary school again for that, or even to see her again

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psud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes, to the point of choosing a university programme. I chose for stupid reasons and wound up not finding a job I really enjoy until twenty years in the industry in which I landed

Also I now know how to avoid getting fat

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- Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How tho ? I’m curious about your findings eheheh
  
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  - psud@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Low carb keeps you healthy and thin, I have had to resort to carnivore to actually lose enough weight
    
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viking@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No thanks. Came out well enough, don’t need a revival.

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MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes. Absolutely. Starting again at any young age with the knowledge I have now would be amazing. Getting in on the Bitcoin bandwagon early, when you could mine multiple Bitcoin a day on little more than a core 2 duo CPU, and invest into stocks that I know will explode long before they do when they’re at an all time low.

Financially, I’d be far better off.

Also, avoiding mistakes of taking courses and getting diplomas that don’t matter and mostly just wasted time on my journey, or skipping the multiple years between highschool and college where I worked menial jobs.

I also met my SO through a video game so as long as I take an active role in that community in the same way, around the same timeframe I’ll find them again… And I can skip all the pointless and ultimately degrading and emotionally damaging relationships along the way.

I could experience the carefree fun of not having to worry about bills or payments and just live… Later, when Bitcoin explodes in value, cash in and buy a nice house…

Who wouldn’t want that?

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- Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Plot twist: you get younger and stuff but the years don’t change. You start it all over in 2024
  
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  - NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Seems like you’ve invented immortality as you keep repeating it.
    
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doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If I get to keep my memories and personality from now… Maybe.

It would trivialize most of the coursework and I’d be a lot more confident in general… But

It would be difficult to be an adult trapped in a child’s body. People would notice how much of a complete weirdo you are. I think at most I’d go back to my freshman year of college.

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The education is a no. Most of it would be boring as hell. Seriously, I’ve got little cousins and nieces and nephews and a kid of my own. The kind of shit they’re doing is so damn dull. It’s remedial once you’ve already done it once, and I can’t think of a worse way to spend a “do-over”

And the experience? Only if I’m allowed access to some serious weaponry. I’m not even joking. I’d fucking kill somebody if I had to deal with the sheer stupidity of most of the adults, and the pure sociopathy of the other kids. Kids are fucking animals with less manners, and more ways to indulge their proclivities. Being forced to deal with the bullshit of elementary school would be bad enough. But being forced to spend half or more of your waking hours with hormone ridden jackasses? Hell no. I wouldn’t subject myself to that now, unless the pay was waaaay better than it is.

If I want to revisit education, I’m not wasting time with the dross and bullshit. I’m going to do it on my own terms. I fucking well earned the time I have now that I’m disabled. Doesn’t matter what degree I could get, I couldn’t do a useful job. And there’s nothing in education below college level worth redoing. Certainly not at the price of having to do it in those schools.

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Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Depends on how you frame the question, also depends on how you define the schooling period.

Would one keep the knowledge? Would it be going back in time and having the same classmates, living the same experiences? I’d go back just to improve or strengthen my friendships, also I’d use the spare time to learn new things as opposed to those I used to be interested in.

I’d really really would backtrack my tertiary studies and get into my current field a lot earlier. So much wasted time…

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yemmly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think about this a fair amount. My degree isn’t really marketable, but on the other hand, what if my experience has given me perspective that is hard to measure?

I would at least not take the classes that I later deemed to be a waste of time. I spent multiple terms dabbling, trying to find what I enjoyed. If I just went straight for CS, I’d probably be making double what I make now.

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sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Again? No! Back in time? Yes! I wouldn’t waste my time there anymore, tried to make something out of my life with my degrees, all BS. Made something from my / our (wife and me) creativity, works like a charm for many years. So much wasted time and energy, only to justify the worthless existence of ignorant, fascist so-called teachers. There was one, Mr Lehrke, who was a good person. One! Rest in peace, my friend. The rest: human trash. At least in my experience. School’s a highly subjective time, I guess.

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