Throughout most of elementary and middle school, I was at best a B student— people used to tell me I’m a smart kid, that if I applied myself, I could be doing much better and whatever else they tell “gifted” kids or whatever they’re called, but at the time, I didn’t see a reason to do so.

Besides being ignorant to how important education really is, school was just nothing more than a place I was forced to go to where I was lonely, stressed out, put under a bunch of pressure, and often treated like shit by everyone, be it peers, teachers, or staff, so why would I even try for an institution that didn’t give a single shit about me? After freshman year, though, my school experience got much better, but my performance remained more or less the same.

Now that I’m in college and also working, I have so many regrets from school.

In all those years, I’ve made one friendship that has lasted to this day, I never joined any sports or did anything else, I never learned an instrument, I rarely ever got any accolades, I actually lost sight of my passions around the time I graduated, and I entered college without a clue as to what I was doing and my first semester I failed a class.

Instead of writing all that, I could’ve just written that I was a B-C student most of my academic life.