With first semester of college over, I’m looking back. I look back at where I started compared to where I am now, and how content (and stressed) I am. But embedded in there somewhere are some small things I wish I could take back, some things that I wish I could do differently. Everyone has things that they regret. This is my list of regrets from my first semester.

I regret renting textbooks from the bookstore, because I never used them.

I regret even getting any textbooks in the first place.

I regret not getting a smaller, cheaper meal plan because I go home every weekend and eat healthier food.

I regret all the half-filled take out boxes I would throw away because I had gotten too much food the day before.

I regret bringing six pairs of shoes to college and only regularly wearing two of those pairs.

I regret all the times I made my roommate stand on the opposite side of a racquetball court and made her fearfully cover her face with her racquet as I tried to see how closely I could get the ball to hit the wall around her without actually hitting her.

I regret that time where I did nothing and watched as my floormate ran straight into the elevator doors as they were closing and not reopened them for her.

I regret putting two mattress toppers on my bed because my short stature makes it hard for me to get up on it, despite my bed being the softest thing in the world to others.

I regret wanting popcorn during a hurricane day and accidentally burning it in the microwave, and then being terrified of setting off the fire alarm and making everyone evacuate into the rain.

I regret being lazy on everything: homework, projects, meetings, etc.

I regret putting my articles off until several hours before their deadline (like right now, for instance).

I regret throwing my seal plush at my roommate whenever I felt like my seal plush wanted to be with her.

I regret hiding my suitemate’s Halloween card for her parents in her air vent the day before she was to mail them out.

I regret trying to avoid socializing with my floor as often as I did.

I regret drinking so much soda.

I regret skipping a chemistry class to try to take a nap after staying up until 3 A.M for election results, but instead ended up playing video games.

I regret always turning down the thermostat right before bed and then waking up the next morning to what seemed like a snow-less snowstorm.

I regret not using more of my wholesale sized carton of ramen cups.

I regret leaving half eaten ice-cream in the freezer.

I regret even eating that fake ice cream, yuck.

I regret subjecting my SUV to all the awful raised speed bumps across campus.

And lastly, I regret listing all of these regrets because I really don’t regret any of these (other than the textbooks and meal plan one, that I definitely do).

Honestly, I have no regrets. I would do these all over again if I had to (minus books and meal plan), because they made my life enjoyable in the past five months. Here’s to the next five months and more to come.