What Subject Do You Wish You Paid More Attention To When You Were In School?

@Tresaqwe (376)
United States
January 8, 2012 8:29am CST
Think back to when you were in school. If you could go back to any subject and learn more about it or pay more attention to it then you did back then what would it be? Or is there a subject you didn't take but now that you are an adult you wish you did?
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
8 Jan 12
for me music, I wish I had taken a lot more notice and even shown interest in learning a musical instrument although we probably wouldn't have been able to afford the instrument, I am now mixing with a lot of musicians I now see what music can do.
@Tresaqwe (376)
• United States
8 Jan 12
That is a good one. I took guitar for about a year but I decided it was too boring. I have a feeling I might regret that some day.
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
8 Jan 12
Well at least you have a year behind you, you could it up again because you would have the basics....
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
8 Jan 12
MATHS, SCIENCE, BIOLIGY! I always have such cool ideas, think i couldof had a great job too.
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• United States
10 Jan 12
I wish I had paid more attention in math too. Although I did very well in those classes, it wasn't until I got to college that I realized I didn't understand the concepts very well, I just knew how to do the problems.
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
9 Jan 12
ehmm... i don't really know... i had always been a good student and paid equal attention to every subject... :-) but it is just that some subjects i am weaker because i really don't like them... some subjects i am stronger because i like them... take care and have a nice day...
@larish (2191)
• Philippines
9 Jan 12
I wish that I have made more friends that time. At this point in my life, I now understand that to reach success is not based on your talent, creativity or even skills. It is based on "who you know". I have a lot of classmates who are on the affluent side of the society. I should have use the time then to mingle and be friends with them.
@cearn25 (3456)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
How I wish I could turn back time when I was in elementary and high school because I will really study hard and focus more on history. I regret that I never focused on that subject. I just focused on senseless things. It is very important to me now to study history because of my course.
8 Jan 12
History and Geography, i was so wrapped up in being silly in class, i missed out on these subjects, i am really bad a maths too, even to this day i draw a blank when it comes to sums, i was told that i am numeral illiterate, if someone asks me to add something up, i go blank, so i can say that maths is another subject that i wished i had have learned, but maths was a tough subject for me, a bit like someone who finds it hard to read or write, well i am the same
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
8 Jan 12
everything! lol! i wish i would have worked harder in school instead of coasting along. my teenaged daughter is doing the same now and it won't do much for her either.
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
8 Jan 12
In a way I wish I had learned a foreign language such as French we did not really have to take a foreign language when I was in high school so I never did. I also wish I knew more about geography not that I really need it in every day life or anything like that but when I play trivia games I am completely terrible when ever it comes to geography questions. I know so little of the world outside my country.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
8 Jan 12
Actually, I think that most of everything that I paid attention to are things that I use and everything that I didn't, I don't use right now. Now granted, as the future comes and there are more things in life, there will be some subjects that I would really tend to wish I had paid a bit more attention with a lot of the time. But right now, I'm good. Of course, I think that there are times where not paying all that much to a subject actually put me in a better position. Not paying attention all that much to Literature class for example was good, as it really did not cause me to grow an overwhelming hatred for any forms of reading as I'm sure many did with what they shoved down their throats. Then again, your mileage may vary. And any time schools tried to tell us how we should write was quite frankly laughable. I think that the only thing that I can think of that I might have paid attention to more is any kind of economics class, but then again, I might have known too much about how certain people in power have screwed things up.
• India
8 Jan 12
It was mathematics for me.. I always use to take extra care of this subject because of not being so good in this .. My grandfather was so good in match as he was lecturer of the subject and used to teach me daily but somehow I did not like this subject initially but once my grandfather became so upset about my mathematics marks and that was the day when I decided to learn this subject as per my grandfather's expectations and get good marks. I got good marks in the next exam however did not choose this subject for higher studies as it was still difficult for me to carry on with so lengthy structures. Thank you for sharing.
@snm7520 (263)
• India
8 Jan 12
i just loved learning physics you know in physics they give explanation about all kinds of things that happens around us, though i dont llike the problems in them but i still have fantasy about physics note: my major now is life science
@heartbit (237)
• Philippines
8 Jan 12
i paid more attention to science related subjects coz i am not good in that area. i have to review several times whenever i have an exam on it unlike other subjects
@yaso4u (502)
• India
8 Jan 12
Hi Tresaqwe, I Like maths alot. I never like to skip the maths class. When I came to college it helps me alot because almost all subject contains maths in it. But as per me, in school days I liked the PT(Play Time) period. Weekly 3 days only we have PT period, I never missed that. Your question remain my school days.