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[poweld]

School, yeah. I didn't try for the first two years, and so I had to take a year off to figure out my life a bit.

Came back and had to work like a maniac to pull excellent grades to counterbalance the poor ones, and ended up doing OK, but not nearly as well as if I'd had my head in the game all along.

Also, around the same time, doing whatever I did to lose my girlfriend of almost four years. Probably similar reasons. Actually, I'm not entirely sure how well it would have worked out anyway, but at least she was gorgeous.

 

[Tetra-9]

Sold acid to an undercover cop... wow this last year has not been much fun. and what makes it much worse is that it was actually one of my best friends from middle school who knowingly set me up to sell to the undercover :/.......

 

[ianp622]

Not going to Digipen. My parents discouraged me by saying "you need a serious career... want to do games? Then be a 'true' engineer and then do what you like".

Should have insisted more. I ended up studying in a top school in my city and then got a job at a big telecom company. Things turned out alright for me, but I always regret not doing more to pursuit my dream...

You're probably better off not having gone to Digipen. With a real degree you're more likely to get a higher level position, whereas a student of Digipen will generally get grunt work. Plus, you're screwed if you try to get a job anywhere else. Why didn't you apply for game jobs when you got out of school (or intern somewhere)?

This brings back memories of Iaido Sword. Funny ones.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Messed up chance for threeway with an Oscar-winning actress.

was she attractive?

 

[Count Dookkake]

was she attractive?

Very.

 

[dankir]

was she attractive?

I think what's more important here is WHO IS THE ACTRESS!

 

[Pakkidis]

Messed up chance for threeway with an Oscar-winning actress.

Either this is a joke, or we need to here more!

 

[X26]

Probably the 2 year gap between high school and university. Basically just worked crappy jobs and forgot some things that I'd later need for university (math related), looking back it was a waste of time.

 

[Souldriver]

joining and posting regularly on gaf

Well, maybe not my biggest mistake, but my god, it's up there. Gaf is making me a text book example of a procrastinator.

Perhaps I would have another site to spend my days on if I didn't know gaf, but as it stands now: I hate that I keep coming back to here, while there's so much better and nicer stuff to do.

 

[Wes]

Turning her down.

 

[JimmyV]

Dating the last bitch i dated KNOWING she was no good for me >

 

[-COOLIO-]

Messed up chance for threeway with an Oscar-winning actress.

go on

 

[anddo0]

I'd go with fucking up in school too.

Ditto

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I think what's more important here is WHO IS THE ACTRESS!

 

[A Human Becoming]

Can your whole life be one giant fuck up?

Honestly, I think I'm too young at this moment to realize the biggest fuck up so far. I know a recent one that has been devastating, but I doubt in the grand scheme of things it has been the biggest.

 

[Count Dookkake]

:lol at Kathy Bates

No, but I did get frisky with a prominent lesbian stand-up who kinda looks like her, but butch. Cocaine was involved.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Not getting a better SAT score. While my 1320/1600 wasn't bad, it was 30 points short of me getting decent chance of a full ride. Instead I got a half ride.

 

[StuBurns]

Not getting a better SAT score. While my 1320/1600 wasn't bad, it was 30 points short of me getting decent chance of a full ride. Instead I got a half ride.

This reminds me of another one, at college we scored like this, Pass/Merit/Distinction, and I got Distinction/Distinction/Merit, and they gave me three days to resubmit an assignment so I could get the top grade, but I couldn't be arsed.

 

[ArtG]

College for me as well. Not really in the grades department, where I'm likely to graduate with honors--but I think I really blew an opportunity to get a full college experience. I never joined business organizations to network with other business students, (hell, I never joined A student organization) I lived at home and continue to live at home the entire time of my undergrad and have only made a number of acquaintances during my time in school.

Essentially, I wish I would have not played so many god damn video games and had a better social life. Guess I have one semester left to try to rectify eight semesters of mistakes.

 

[Desperado]

Add me to the 'fucking up in school' list, but I do have to say that without my current abysmal performance (likely failing 13 out of 15 hours this semester) I wouldn't have ever gotten the balls to actually change my major to what I really want.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

This reminds me of another one, at college we scored like this, Pass/Merit/Distinction, and I got Distinction/Distinction/Merit, and they gave me three days to resubmit an assignment so I could get the top grade, but I couldn't be arsed.

Well the reason I am so mad about it is that if I had put even 1/10th more of an effort than I was I would have had it.

My first year and a half of college were mediocre at best. I have a 3.14 GPA as an electrical engineering and math double major. It's not terrible, but it's not great at the same time. I have been working my butt off this semester to get it up, and I will have to work hard the rest of college to get it close to what I consider a respectable 3.5 GPA.

However, I am very lucky and have a great internship with a large national defense company. They told me after I graduate I would have a job offer. With this economy I can't really rely on that, so I am working harder to make sure I have a job getting out for sure should that fall apart.

 

[unomas]

Pissing away an full athletic scholarship in college by drinking 6 nights a week and chasing skirts. Now I'm paying for college 10 years later.

 

[GriffD17]

Add me to the 'fucking up in school' list, but I do have to say that without my current abysmal performance (likely failing 13 out of 15 hours this semester) I wouldn't have ever gotten the balls to actually change my major to what I really want.

Going from what to what?

 

[Outcast2004]

Sold acid to an undercover cop... wow this last year has not been much fun. and what makes it much worse is that it was actually one of my best friends from middle school who knowingly set me up to sell to the undercover :/.......

He did you a favor.


Anyway,
Mine is a double.
Not focusing on baseball more. When I was younger I was VERY good.... but my Dad was the coach and that kind of burned me out on it. Never went back... and I LOVE the sport.

Who knows where I could have gone with it.


This is my biggest:
Not focusing enough on my art. I'm a fairly talented artist. Had a couple brushes with being a contracted artist for Image comics (would have started as an inker)... but that fell apart through no fault of my own.
I just lack the focus (or ambition... or anger which is what fueled it) to sit back down and put in the work to get back where I was.

So hear I am... 30 yrs old, married, with a kid and a gift for drawing that I'm letting go to waste.

 

[NinjaFridge]

I'm not really 'feeling' this semester and will probably fail it meaning i'll have to repeat this year. Hopefully though it will act as some sort of motivation and make me get my act together and do better but knowing me it probably wont .

 

[cvxfreak]

Not working harder in high school and getting better grades. I assume this is going to be a trivial matter as I get even older.

I wasn't a poor performer by any means, and I feel that I've surpassed many of the much-recognized brainiacs from high school based on my university results and my current life situation, but still.

I'm glad I made up for it in university. Made it into Phi Beta Kappa, studied abroad, graduated early.

 

[CajoleJuice]

Made it into Phi Beta Kappa.

I think I got invited to join that, but blew it off. Was that a mistake?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

probably not ever getting good at studying. I'm almost 30 and can't find the energy to continue to improve my IT knowledge. If the situation hasn't changed in 1 1/2 years I'm going to immigrate to holland, get my EU passport quit the IT industry and become a skydiving instructor. Lifes to short to spend it doing shit you don't care about and I figured out that being well off isn't all that great anyway.

Not that I'm rich, but I do OK.

 

[unomas]

probably not ever getting good at studying. I'm almost 30 and can't find the energy to continue to improve my IT knowledge. If the situation hasn't changed in 1 1/2 years I'm going to immigrate to holland, get my EU passport quit the IT industry and become a skydiving instructor. Lifes to short to spend it doing shit you don't care about and I figured out that being well off isn't all that great anyway.

Not that I'm rich, but I do OK.

All these GAF IT guys that hate their jobs are scaring the shit out of me. I just started taking classes online at the start of 2009 and I'm having doubts about IT. I'm just about to start my 4th class I'm just not sure if it's what I really want to do. I was also looking at nursing since it pays decent and you get to help people, but I'd have to go to a classroom to do the schooling for that and the tech I just contacted isn't even taking students til Fall 2010.

 

[FairyD]

Not being sociable enough

 

[KevinCow]

I don't think I could choose one. Plus, all of my earlier fuck ups tend to snowball into bigger fuck ups, so while they may seem smaller overall, they could be considered the bigger fuck ups.

And if failing a test is the biggest fuck up in your life, then your life must be pretty fucking awesome.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

I married a lesbian. Didn't know it at the time of course. Good thing it took being with her for 7 years before she figured that out. I got Ross'd. FML.

Oh well. I'm dating a girl now that is a much better fit for me. And she isn't a lesbian. I hope.

 

[KingGondo]

I married a lesbian. Didn't know it at the time of course. Good thing it took being with her for 7 years before she figured that out. I got Ross'd. FML.

Oh well. I'm dating a girl now that is a much better fit for me. And she isn't a lesbian. I hope.

Ouch. I feel sorry for both of you. Were there signs?

 

[Dementia]

Passing up a free ride to a very respectable state university and going to an expensive private school I can't afford and subsequently failing out. I just got got the dismissal notice last week.

 

[saelz8]

Doing badly in HS.

Slacking around for years.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

Ouch. I feel sorry for both of you. Were there signs?

Nope, just text messages on her phone from her lover that she was cheating on me with.

 

[Touchdown]

Failing my first few years in college, not taking it seriously. I'm back on track now in a different college, but may have wasted a few years of getting to where I want to be. Although I have to say I have learned so much more from my failures than my successes that in a way, I wouldn't go back in time and change things because of what I know and how I deal with things now thanks to those failures.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Selling drugs in college and getting caught my junior year, jail etc.

 

[Movement]

Well I'm only 17 so no MAJOR fuck ups here. I did get a B in physics this year though it sucks.

 

[Danielsan]

Playing video games.
I love games but I really wish I hadn't come in contact with them, or at least not that early in my life. Fucked up my social life (even now) and fucked up my attention span and motivation to invest time in my study.

 

[Bad_Boy]

trying to get more money out of school than i should of. long story short but i owe 2750 back to the school by may 15th or i can't register for summer or fall classes. which would suck because i worked my ass off this semester, making A's and B's for the first time in my life. anyways, i found out about this a month ago. I have 2500 saved up, and ill probably get the rest by may 15th no problem. but it's just been one huge stress on my back to pay them back this whole month. the fact that i still have a girlfriend, apartment bills, a motorcycle bill and motorcycle insurance to pay off at the end of the month doesnt help either.

pretty much, june 1st, when this month is over is going to be the best day of my life.

 

[RedShift]

I did Latin at GCSE, wtf. I was one of the best in the year at French, and I went for Latin. Only got a C, and now I don't remember any of it. Useless, boring subject.

I'm only 17 my fuckups aren't huge...

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Not learning Kung Fu

 

[pje122]

All these GAF IT guys that hate their jobs are scaring the shit out of me. I just started taking classes online at the start of 2009 and I'm having doubts about IT. I'm just about to start my 4th class I'm just not sure if it's what I really want to do. I was also looking at nursing since it pays decent and you get to help people, but I'd have to go to a classroom to do the schooling for that and the tech I just contacted isn't even taking students til Fall 2010.

IT is very broad. When someone says they work in Information Technology, that could really mean a lot of different things. And a lot of time, if you find yourself unhappy with one area of the field, you should still be able to steer your career to another area. I work in IT, and I love my job.

 

[Cheeto]

I'd say going to college was a fuckup, but I'm glad I did because it taught me how useless it is and to just do what makes you happy. I honestly believe if you're intelligent and ambitious you'll succeed with or without that piece of paper.

I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion. Although I consider myself fairly successful for someone my age and only a HS diploma, I feel like I missed out on a lot not going to college. Not the education, but rather the social aspects. Visiting my girlfriend's college were some of the most fun weekends I've had.

 

[Carlisle]

Taking the blue pill.

 

[EatChildren]

I'm only young, so more fuck-ups to come, but so far the biggest is become a lazy, unsocial douche about two years ago.

I moved out of home with some friends into the city, and a year of deferring Uni just wrecked me. I didn't do ANYTHING. Slowly but surely I stopped going out as much as I should have, not inviting people over, etc.

Moved back home with my folks for another year and acted the same. Wouldn't get up and travel for birthdays. Missed a lot of plans to go out. Etc. I still went out for both years, just nowhere near as much as I should have and was expected to.

As a result a lot of my friendships have suffered. I've grown completely away from one or two, and many of the friends I still have aren't as close to me as they once were. I'm also pretty sure I've developed a mild form of social anxiety as a result of my recluse lifestyle, which doesn't help at all.

It's entirely my fault, and now living back in the city I'm doing my best to repair the damage.

 

[Venomgxt]

Not being sociable enough

*sigh*

 

[gnarkill bill]

Being in my teens still, nothing huge. If I had to say though I'd go with mistakes I made in past relationships. Losing my cool when I shouldve just been alot more calmer about things. Important thing is that I learned from it but I just wish I couldve maintained atleast being friends with a couple of my ex's that I were really close with.


blah, life goes on.

 

[painey]

wasting the 4 years since I left college. at 22 I should be graduated, not looking for a university to join.