“I wish I had learned a second language earlier. Just because it's supposed to be easier when you're younger, and I had a pretty hard time with it when I got older.”

— Meagan Patterson, assistant professor, Lawrence

“I think I would have liked to learn how to draw. In my generation, they just kind of told us to be creative, but never really taught us any techniques.”

— Jenny O'Brien, artist, Lawrence

“A foreign language would have been nice to learn at a young age. They say it's easier when you're young. Now I try, but I think I'm too old to learn anything.”

— John Glendening, financial adviser, Lawrence

“I wish I would have been taught that what other people say doesn't matter and that you have to make yourself happy.”

— Laura Hosek, horticulture laborer, rural Perry