High school is an experience memorable for a lifetime, only if it is made memorable. One thing I regret about high school is not having enough fun, and truly savoring my youth. The constant constraint of freedom was another nagging issue. Maybe I should have embraced a few extra curricular activities just to spend time with friends. This year in college, I am taking up something daring and new. This time no regrets slip by me and I hope that I can compensate in college with my newly gained freedoms.
             In addition to learning, and working, I will make a better effort at having fun. This includes girls, parties, and taking advantage of my new "college age". When I grow up and my children ask me, "Daddy, what was college like?"; I refuse to disappoint them with another average reply. Sure, college is all about majoring in a subject that will eventually take over your social life, as youth begins to decline, but it should be more than that. It has everything high school offered, except no parents, and everyone is more or less on the same level of maturity (as adults).
             Having fun is something that never gets old and depending on how it is done, it can be very daring (nothing wild though). I need to seize the opportunity of students being away from his or her parents for the first time in their lives. This type of opportunity is once in a lifetime. Reflecting on my high school years, maybe I will have the courage to ask a couple girls out, or get off my lazy bum and join a futurity. One thing is for sure, if I want a social life other than work, and a strictly academic schedule. I will need to get involved with the local campus community.
             In high school, I never really participated in anything extracurricular, except for a couple of sports. College seeks to provide sporting prospects to individuals who desire a career in professional sports. That does not fit into my purpose for attending college, lea...