It's the one thing in life looking back I fucked up. I had the one last oppurtunity where i was abundantly around women and I even knew deep down that cold approaching, joining clubs and making conversation is the way to go. Hell I even knew about this subreddit. But for 3 of my 4 years there I didn't do anything about it after 1 bad and really awkward cold approach in my second year (around the time I had finally built up the courage to cold approach), social anxiety, failing grades and personal tragedy I gave up. Wasted the rest of my 4 years deluding myself with dating apps that never worked and kept kicking the can down the road. Of course being in engineering helped tremendously with that 🙄.

1 year after graduating I'm slowly getting back into it and building the confidence again to cold approach. Problem is, social life after college just isn't the same unfortunately. Friends are much harder to make, you can't build a social network or have social proof and meeting women in acceptable places even harder. I haven't had any success yet and as a 25 year old have the skills of a 19 or 20 year old.

Now I often contemplate about just taking some bullshit night classes as so I can have an excuse being on campus or going back and getting a stupid masters degree that I don't even want just so I can get that oppurtunity around women again. I look young enough to seriously consider it.

The whole "just get over it" advice doesn't seem to work cause i knew what to do but I didn't do it. It'd be different if I was unaware or if I acted and failed but I knew and I didn't act. That's what hurts. It's a regret that I can't seem to get over. I was wondering how anyone in a similar situation has dealt with this? Do you ever get over the regret of not acting when you had abundance? Does success in the future make it all worth it?

TLDR: The title.