I never really liked high school when I was a teenager. I woke up dreading every day and most often would just make up excuses to stay home. I would do all my homework and do what I had to do get by with a B but I never really applied myself. Even to this day I don’t remember much of what I was taught because I was just memorizing what I needed to for the hour and then forgetting it all. When senior year past I was more than happy to finally have some time to myself. I got a little selfish, however, and let the deadlines go by for applying to college. I told myself I’d just take a year off and work. I thought during this time I would figure out where I wanted to go in life and what career path to choose. That’s not how it work out although. I got lazy and just started lounging around going to work for 3 hours 4 days a week. I became horribly lazy while all my friends were in school following their dreams. I became depressed for a long while when I had nothing to do for days on end while everyone else was busy. After a year I finally decided to go back to school and make something of myself. While I was sitting around depressed I could have been in school. My suggestion to high schoolers now would be to not take a break after senior year. If there’s no career path in mind just take gen. eds during that time. You won’t regret it at all, you’ll actually be saving yourself a lot of boredom.