<p>I felt like most classes were just a waste of 40-58 minutes because I wasn’t learning anything sitting around and twiddling my thumbs after I finished the five minute worksheet.</p>
<p>@swedishfish that’s like the number one reason why my freshman year has been so damn miserable! In that aspect I feel like I’m going back to middle school! it’s like a little piece as to why im transferring from my current school!</p>
<p>I like the independence of college, and I definitely agree that its a better study environment. And I like the freedom to sleep whenever I want, hang out with my friends wherever I want. But I miss always having someone around, like my family in high school. Even though I have fewer hours of classes I have a lot of work and I get up later in college so that takes time and I dont like that about college. College is more stressful, and I didn’t love high school, but I do like college more. I just don’t think it aamazziinnggg and that high school was horrible</p>
<p>Also, agree completely with everything Venkat89 said</p>
<p>The one thing I do miss about high school is being surrounded by people with much different backgrounds and goals than myself. Though college is, socially and academically, vastly better than high school, all of the students here were selected because they showed that they were both interested in, and capable of doing higher level academic work. In any public, non magnet high school, there are a variety of interests and capabilities represented. Colleges like diversity partly because it helps students go beyond their own social circle. But the diversity represented in college isn’t, IMO real diversity as all of the students have a similar end goal, and often fall within a narrow academic abilities. I learned far more from taking with children of immigrants that decided to go become a plumber than any conversation with someone from China ever yielded. </p>
<p>Note that what I wrote doesn’t apply to community colleges or local commuter state schools with a variety of degree programs.</p>
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<p>Mine is 25.</p>
<p>I used to. Not so much anymore. I do think I had closer friends in high school but meh. Life goes on :)</p>
<p>mine’s an hour :)</p>
<p>It’s really weird because although I love my university, I have sort of been missing high school lately. I can’t really think of a rational reason… my university has smarter/nicer/cooler/better peers, there’s way more freedom and stuff to do, there’s better food, you get the point. But for some reason, I’ve still sort of been missing my high school life. It might be because I’m a little burnt out from the college life and need a little solitude. Anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>The only thing I miss about high school is how freakin easy it was.</p>
<p>I miss high school, but probably because I strongly dislike my current university (hopefully transferring). I miss my teachers and friends, and how I could get all A+'s without studying.</p>
<p>My friend from high school who I haven’t seen for at least 8 months visited me for a couple hours the other day . . and I missed high school so much. We’re both happy and like our respective colleges, but its amazing to catch up with someone who I haven’t been in that close contact with for months and it’s completely normal again. While I was really different from my high school friends in a lot of ways, I feel like they completely accepted me and would always have my back. I don’t know that about my college friends yet. So that’s what I miss about high school.</p>
<p>Do i miss getting constantly bullied, eating crappy food, and completely wasting my time? No, not at all.</p>
<p>No. Not even a little bit.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA…of course not. Where I’m from, the only people that miss high school are the one’s not in college and living with mom and dad year round.</p>
<p>What about the ones that are at a university with a 75% Asian population, 400 student classes, crappy food, massive overcrowding, and lousy courses?</p>
<p>Yeah, totally. As much as I hate to admit it, I’m almost finished with my sophomore year of college and nothing I’ve done here really blows HS out of the water for me.</p>
<p>HS felt like a book with many chapters. Each year starting from a Freshman to a Senior were like stepping stones with something new to expect; more privilege, learning to drive, SATs, prom, Senior class trip, etc. For me, college just feels like one of those dragged out, overhyped movies that you keep waiting for to get better midway through, but it just ends up being an overall bland experience. I feel like college life is so bent around partying, sex, frats, preppy kids, that it makes it difficult to make any sort of lasting interpersonal relationships. And while I’m not a prude or anything, I just don’t hold similar values to the majority of the students at my university, so at this point I don’t really even frustrate myself that I haven’t made a ton of friends. I just stick with my friends from HS, ironically lol.</p>
<p>However, one thing I sure as hell don’t miss about HS is having to wake up at 6AM every morning (I nearly died lol) having teachers on my case for petty things, or having to stay in the same building for 8 hrs even when you feel like leaving.</p>
<p>I miss high school, especially senior year. Looking back, it was so chill and relaxed compared to now, even though we had to wake up at 6 every morning and stay in school until around 2 or 3pm. I got to be with my friends and family everyday, unlike college. But as other people have said, life goes on…</p>
<p>Don’t know what Asian population has to do with anything. Crappy food i’ll grant you, but it still beats cheeseburger/fries every other day. I bet the ‘jocks’ are missing it something fierce though since most are living in trailer park already.</p>
<p>Eh, the girls were a lot prettier. The people were a lot more stupid. </p>
<p>The best thing about college is no one intentionally goes out of their way to bother you and I’m not stuck there for all hours of the day doing busy work. Best part of all is that you can skip as much as you want basically as it’s up to you whether you want to attend class or not. It’s better to be treated as an adult than feel like one trapped in a high school teen’s body and have to deal with BS on a constant basis. </p>
<p>The atmosphere was a lot more relaxed in high school where you had a lot of time to be bored and do things other than school. I liked that. I still don’t miss it enough to say that I’d want to go back in time to relive it again.</p>