American society is plagued by ‘YOLO’ and ‘no regrets’ being slogans to live by; where living fast and acting without thinking is a daily occurrence. Ideally, there would be no regrets about past events, but the truth is, in high school, many mistakes are made, and the Antioch Community High School staff and alumni feel they are no exception to this.

Recent Antioch Community High School graduate Christian Norris’s advice to high schoolers is to take advantage of the limited time you have.

Norris said, “My biggest regret would have to be rushing through my four years. I always seemed to be worried about moving on and what was next. I wish I would’ve sat back and enjoyed everything. I also regret not getting involved more.”

One of the new ACHS staff members feels that it’s not good to get too caught up in the past and regrets.

ACHS science teacher Howard Citron said, “I’m not a big regret sort of person. I believe that we can only learn from our past experiences and use them to drive us forward.”

It is true that high school is the time to make mistakes and learn who you are, just make sure you don’t ‘YOLO’ too hard.