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How many of the choices you made in high school actually affect your adult life today? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking "Food Tech" (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don't have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.

So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn't have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.

Another choice i made in HS, for instance: i remember being really glad to have a medium-size group of friends in high school, but in retrospect they were terrible people and i realise that there would have been huge benefits to spending more time alone and in the library - yes, i genuinely look back and wish i studied more, lol. Something which I'm always told never happens.

This one "affects me as an adult" because i ended up entering adulthood with several friends determined to force their personality to be cool, relying on manosphere influencers to determine how they should behave; a lot of these people i didn't want to know in the first place.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I resolved to go to college out of state. I did and it went well.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

depends on the college you went to. i went into the reviews of my college(yelp) at least most colleges got bad reviews and 1 chick gave her own experience she thought the state uni wasnt good enough for her, so she transferred out to ucla, she had a much better opportunities than her friends who stayed(they all struggled after graduating). i can see that, because they were willing to push people through and out as quickly as possible(offering no workshops or warnings how different degrees are very deficient in the job market despite being a very popular one) and not informing people of independant studies or lab work. they want as many incoming freshmans as possible to milk them for all that tuition, and state funding. no wonders by covid, at least the end of the lockdown they were STRUGGLING to get freshmans enrolled in most of the state universities around my region. last i heard they started to giving exceptions to HS students so they can enroll asap into state colleges. the more resources/prestigious seems to have more resources devoted to post-grad experience(externships/labwork).