<p>Does anybody enjoying their college life? Is your college life better than your high school? If so, please tell me your stories. Anybody can answer it.</p>
<p>YES. Yes. </p>
<p>Having more freedom I would say is the part that stands out most. Having all of your friends concentrated in a very small area is also a very cool fact. There's always going to be something to do as well.</p>
<p>"You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does...”
-Tom Petty</p>
<p>I definitely love college - I'm having the time of my life here. High school is no comparisin. I agree with everything diesel said, too. It's amazing.</p>
<p>Uhm, wow... College is about 100 times more interesting, fun, eye-opening and all around better than highschool. I can't even tell you all the stories. It'd be a 100 pages long... and its only been one semester.</p>
<p>I do not agree with that Tom Petty quote. I think you can have tons of fun with out screwing yourself over like that. If you have a paper due Wednesday, write the damn paper. If its a super cool concert that night, yah, lol, go to the concert, but you better stay up to write that paper.</p>
<p>Oh yes, I agree with quitejaded, college is 100x better than high school. I don't know about anyone else, but I had a quite crappy high school experience and college definitely was a total release after the four years of hell that was HS. There's so much to do all the time, you can hang out with your friends until 4 am on a weeknight and no one's there to tell you not to. You don't have to go to class if you don't want to (you should, but you don't have to). Food places are open til 3 am, alcohol is plentiful if that's your thing, there's always SOMETHING going on, there's hundreds of clubs you can join. Basically, anything you can think of, you can find it in college. </p>
<p>I have had a pretty amazing time so far in college. That's not to say I haven't had some bad times too, but the good times outweigh the bad looking back on it all. When you get 20,000 people ages 18-24 together in one place for long enough, there's bound to be something fun going on eventually. And even where there are bad things, it shows you who your true friends are when they'll stand up and defend your honor or tell someone that they're being a total jerk or even tell you when you're being a jerk.</p>
<p>College is good, but very difficult. Don't get me wrong, I love college, but I wouldn't say it's 100x better than high school. High school was much easier. I love the freedom and social life at college, but it can really get overwhelming.</p>
<p>Yah, I didn't mean to say there are never bad times. There are always bad times.</p>
<p>But no, I don't think college is harder than high school so far except for the sciences. Which i shall never do again. In fact, my english was easier than english in highschool for 3 years.</p>
<p>Just because it's harder doesn't mean it sucks. I would prefer harder to the ridiculously easy curriculum at my high school where I was bored out of my mind for most of my 4 years there. And because of this, college was probably alot harder for me than it was for many others who may have had AP classes and serious teachers. But I prefer the challenge (except science, science is HARD in college, I agree with quitejaded on this!). Everything else has been challenging but doable.</p>
<p>I think that high school was harder than college. College is less stressful in many ways, but maybe that's because I'm already accepted into professional school.</p>
<p>While I don't love college, likely as a consequence of where I go to school, it is a huge step up from high school. My parents were pretty lax with respect to alot of things. But in high school, I never piled into a car with a few friends and drove to Canada and crash at a stranger's house. Nor did I ever drive 3.5 hours to see a private speech by a major politican (Netanyahu). And I certainly never got interviewed by state newspapers for my involvement in political protests. And yet, I've done all that in college. I've got some great memories, and so too does anybody who isn't a hermit or a PCC/Bob Jones student.</p>
<p>Hah, the first 4 responses pretty much covered what I had to say.</p>
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<p>I have to admit, college the first couple of years is not difficult for such things as major prerequisites, because any good student paid a lot of attention in high school advanced placement courses to get a good idea of what college presents to you. I don't know why so many people on this forum had such terrible experiences in high school, and the only thing I can think of for a lot of these people is that they were highly intelligent but socially awkward and not very popular before college.</p>
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I don't know why so many people on this forum had such terrible experiences in high school, and the only thing I can think of for a lot of these people is that they were highly intelligent but socially awkward and not very popular before college.
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Well, not everyone here had a bad HS experience because of social issues. For the people who DID have a bad experience due to social issues, it can often be written off by the fact that it takes some people more time to take off socially than others.</p>
<p>Oh, I had good and bad experiences in high school. A variety of reasons. The biggest reason -- the single most... ultimate reason college is 100x better is just because we are free of parental figures.</p>
<p>No, college life is no better than high school life.</p>
<p>I'm sick of the stereotypical responses: it's "eye opening," "there are no parental figures," "all your friends in one place," yadda yadda. You can have your own opinion obviously but I think college should be more work than fun. And if you're not there to not only learn in school but also learn independently for things related to your major, what's the point??</p>
<p>None of you are wrong. I think HS life was better because you could still be a kid.</p>
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No, college life is no better than high school life.</p>
<p>I'm sick of the stereotypical responses: it's "eye opening," "there are no parental figures," "all your friends in one place," yadda yadda. You can have your own opinion obviously but I think college should be more work than fun. And if you're not there to not only learn in school but also learn independently for things related to your major, what's the point??</p>
<p>None of you are wrong. I think HS life was better because you could still be a kid.
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<p>You have to remember that College Confidential is populated mostly by upper class kids who can go to college to pursue whatever they want (Art History for example...) and don't have to have jobs to live and have their parents to fall back on. Many of them aren't on scholarships where you need to keep your GPA super high, or no more college (once again, see rich parents). </p>
<p>But I'd still suspect, no matter what, that college can be much more fun than high school. I'm a very social person now in high school, but I can definitely see the opportunities in college: no need for parental permission to do things, go out whenever you want say you're hungry for Taco Bell at 12AM), have anyone over whenever you want, no having to sneak around, you can decide what classes you want to have (no forcing the standard high school math, science, english, etc. B.S. on you besides GenEd), less stupid busy work, etc. etc. The list goes on.</p>
<p>you can still be a kid in college...you just have to do your laundry</p>
<p>yes, but life is harder. you work hard, and you play hard. theres no denying that. i like my college life way better. you feel more independent and you grow and learn so much in college. its amazing how different i am after 4 years of college. im shocked that its already coming to an end for me.</p>
<p>I'm concurrent and the reason I like college better is because the students actually chose to go there and you don't have all the behavior problems and interruptions. Also, you don't have all the down time because the teacher feels like watching Over the Hedge instead of teaching.</p>
<p>I love the tom petty quote.</p>
<p>As another poster said, college is much more cerebral than high school. High school academics are mostly a hand-holding affair, especially in the humanities. In my high school AP english classes, the teacher always told us <em>exactly</em> what she wanted to see in a paper. In college, you are given guidelines, but the actual critical thinking is your own. Big difference. Also, as was previously said, high school grades are a joke. Your grades in hs are spread between tests, quizzes, papers, participation, stuff like that. College grades consist of 2 midterm papers, and a term paper; in quantitative classes, 2 midterm exams, and a final.</p>
<p>With that said, life in college is what you make of it. You can choose to party, or you can choose to spend the night studying. My own most memorable experiences have been at college; this past semester has quite literally been more enjoyable/spontaneous than all four years of high school combined.</p>
<p>In college social life, there is very little accountability. This is the last time you will ever be able to hook up with whomever, get wasted on a monday night, do whatever, etc. Once we go on to Wall Street, TFA, etc., that life will be a fading memory. In economic terms, college life and hs life are like competing in a subsidized market and a free market. Life in high school was highly regulated; you had teachers, gc, parents, and society pulling the strings. In college, every day represents a new frontier of possibilities. How you shape that day is your doing alone. </p>
<p>If I had to compare my first semester of college to a movie, it would definitely be casta way. When you first land, everything seems foreign and you find yourself having to survive in a new ecosystem. Once you get accustomed to life, however, you learn how to spear fish just like crusoe.</p>
<p>ok, end of essay :)</p>