Hey Pandas, What Is One Thing You Wish You Would Have Learned In High School? (Closed)

How to manage money; taxes, savings, retirement, vacation and emergency funds. Age creeps up faster than you think. Don't get close to retirement and then realize you have to couch surf because you didn't put enough away for your golden age. In America, social security isn't going to meet your rent/mortgage. Buy memories and not things.

tax declaration. I work full time, so I have to pay taxes and I have no idea how that s**t works

How to deal with mental illness and the side-effects of psychiatric drugs.

All about social anxiety. It would have changed my adult life completely.

More emphasis on recent world history.

It's easier to do the work when it's assigned, than try to catch up later.

Self-defense, honestly a blue belt in BJJ (2 years or so) and basic stand up trainging. Would help out a lot of girls and guys.

That I could have gotten my GED at sixteen and gotten out of high school two years earlier.

Disclaimer: I am still in HS but this would be relevant in middle school too.

How to study! Telling students to cram stuff into their brain with only flashcards over and over doesn't really help that much. In my experience teachers usually don't give study tips other than "use flashcards and read your notes", which can be useful to some but there are often better solutions. Personally I use flashcards but with spaced repetition, instead of simply repeatedly quizzing myself with the exact same set of cards very often. I also write quizzes and sometimes do the same with friends. Usually the act of writing out the quiz is enough for me to remember, not doing the actual quiz.

Also, time management! A lot of my fellow students have a hard time managing their schedules with extra classes and trying to fit in homework/studying.

How to solve problems by evaluating what materials you have, people you can work with, your timelines, and your budgets. And no looking it up on Google. Decision-making skills are something I have had to teach a lot of people I trained at my job. A few of them told me that later it helped them have an edge up on job interviews.

How much work politics there are and how to handle it. Schmooze the boss and they think you're a better worker.

I wish I had learned to be more outgoing... to take the chances that I feared taking... that all those girls (I went to a private catholic prep school) who were living by their own rules weren't going to get what was coming to them. If you want something, go for it. It's not going to be handed to you. I always followed the rules and now I absolutely regret it.

Im in middle school... i wish that i could learn how to school when i get to high school

Budgeting

I would like to see High schools actually teach skills to their students that don't leave them stranded on the retail career track. Especially since service computers are starting to take over those jobs in a big way, modern high schools are teaching kids to build wagons as a career in the age of spaceships.

Critical Thinking

I wish I had learned how to learn? Once I figured out my method of learning I started getting all A's and I actually enjoyed learning.

Sewing