<p>Anyone else feel like college hasn't met the hype? I know a lot of people say it's so much better than high school, or that it's the best time of your life, but I'm just not feeling like it's much different than hs. I am disappointed so far, and I've been here for 2mths. Various aspects seem reminiscent of hs, especially the behavior of the freshman class.I just don't see what's so great beyond living away from home-the dorms and food are less than ideal. Beyond that, three of profs barely speak English and use unclear and subjective grading methods (one of my profs refuses to give us back our paper until mid term grades are due, and won't give us any indication of what our grade is). Is this how college is supposed to be?
Was it too idealistic of me to think it would be different than hs and that it would be about learning?</p>
<p>i hope it isn't like what you just said...i am so ready to get out of hs. If college is just like hs, this is going to suck</p>
<p>Must be your college. My college experience has been nothing but a giant improvement from high school.</p>
<p>I'm kinda feeling the same thing. It's not super awesome or anything. Maybe it's because everything is new and I'm kinda reserved when something is unfamiliar. The classes are ok. They are often huge and the professors don't teach well.</p>
<p>College gets much better in the later years once you've developed more solid friendships and are taking mostly classes pertaining to your major.</p>
<p>i'm guessing you don't like case-western that much. good thing i took it off my list.</p>
<p>Case is right for certain people, its great for anyone majoring in engineering, pre med or science based majors. My frustrations are about college life in general, many of which exist at every school-red tape, egotistical profs, immature students, subjective grading. It's more that expectations going into college were centered around the idea that college is completely different than hs. The freshman are incredibly immature which makes it feel a lot like hs.</p>
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The freshman are incredibly immature which makes it feel a lot like hs.
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Keep in mind that there are varying degrees of "immature". I'd say all college students are immature, no doubt! But the freshmen at my school are definitely better than HS students.</p>
<p>It all depends on making a circle of friends you can consistently hang out with, or hanging with friends from hs. Once you can overcome loneliness, I can see how college would be much more fun.</p>
<p>Once you piece together your social life it is great on that front, since college towns are just great places to live, so much to do. </p>
<p>See, this is why all that Ivy League, let's go look at the New Week top 20, bull crap is so detrimental. State flagships, imo are the best schools you can go to. Obviously go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern, Duke etc. But no one, in the large, is going to care if you go to Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell, John Hopkins, Emory, Tufts, etc...and those types of colleges with little name recognition. State flagships have the same type of recognition as those universities (if not better) [excluding some state's like Idaho, etc.), and you will get a much better education at the state flagship.</p>
<p>nah.</p>
<p>i love college.</p>
<p>maybe its the college that you go to that is making you have an unsatisfactory college stay.</p>
<p>I can say that college for me hasn't been anything special for me... It has a lot to do with your personality and other things.</p>
<p>The freshman, yourself included, have been in college for how long? What are you expecting? Did you honestly think that simply walking onto campus and throwing your stuff in a dorm room was going to make you an enlightened adult? </p>
<p>Get over yourself. I promise you, the upper classmen think you (and I'm talking directly to the OP) are extremely immature - maybe not to the extent of some of your cohort, but pretty damn close.</p>
<p>Trust me, I have a thriving social life. It's not a "lack of friends", it's a lack of ppl who are beyond petty hs social life. I've been here over 2.5 months b/c I had to come early for preseason for soccer.
Is it normal for a group of girls to be incapable of making an independent decision? "So, I mean, I you know was thinking about getting something to eat, what do you guys think?" "Is any one else showering? I really don't feel like but are you?". They seriously MUST walk to class or go to the dining hall with other people because they can't be independent.It's a lot like hs.
My roommates parents come every weekend to deliver grocerys and do her laundary(which is somehow not uncommon here), the ppl in the dorm REFUSE to clean up after themselves, and when you ask them to abide by the dorm rules they agreed upon at the begining of the year, they ignore you. Hey, it'd be great if we left feminine products in the shower or the bathroom stall wall! Or vomit all over the bathroom walls!
The immaturity of the freshman just means I tend to chill with more upperclassman. It really affects dorm life when ppl think its okay to take your food or use your stuff and then deny it when questioned. Or they use your stuff and won't return it in its original condition.
I like how judgemental some are when they 1) don't know me 2) don't go to my school, and I never mentioned a lack of friends or a social group as an issue.
1)It feels as though some of my profs aren't b/c they want to teach
2) The profs are subjective graders (ex. Prof "The reflection can be about anything you want, your view on the book, etc. It doesn't have to be a formal conclusion to the paper." Then she takes off points b/c my reflection is aspects outside my papers topic.)
My civil liberties prof refuses to give us back our graded papers, even though we have another one due this week, until the day midterm grades are due.
3) Immature as in ppl don't realize when you live w/40 other ppl, your actions affect ppl other than yourself. Or they can't go eat by themselves.</p>
<p>It is a bit overrated because how everyone is looking forward to the next Saturday night party. I try to remind myself everyday that I'm not going to school for the students but for faculty/stellar programs.</p>
<p>I agree on the freshman front. There is too much soap opera drama BS here, due in part to a lot of the girls acting like they're still in HS...</p>
<p>In college you don't have to live by parents' rules. So there'd be more freedom to just do what you want without telling anyone where you're going, being back by a certain time, etc. If someone invited you to go for pizza randomly at 2 AM you could, without worrying about not being allowed to...i'm looking forward to that aspect of it.
also, OP - you say that everyone is very social/does stuff together - do you maybe feel left out? maybe next time if someone asks if anyone wants to go eat, or take a shower, or whatever, say sure and go with them? making friends and feeling included can make you feel LOTS better...</p>
<p>haha they're not social as much as afraid of being alone. The context of those situations was an attempt to demonstrate the need to coordinate every activity with others, instead of just letting it happen. These are little things, not parties or real social events. I don't plan everything around what other people are doing in terms of eating/walking to class.
I have my friends and we just go out and things just work instead of going to the same parties with the same people every weekend, there is a lot to do off campus as well.
Once again this isn't about the social aspects of college or meeting people, it's about the relative immaturity of dorm mates/teammates/peers in the freshman class who have yet to grow up. People who don't understand there actions affect others and can't clean up after themselves, or can't make their own decisions. The prof's are pretty average as well, I feel as if the info I learn solely depends on the view of the prof, as all my classes are lecture based(even the ones with >20ppl).
People made it sound like college is so much better than hs, and there isn't that petty hs drama or immaturity factor, and that classes are more interesting/stimulating, but it just doesn't seem that much better than hs. I'm not really gaining that much more freedom than in hs either, I just don't have to call in if I'm staying out past 1</p>
<p>Lol akhman you have no idea about schools. You go to a top school because people that MATTER know the difference, not to impress your neighbor. The avg. salary ten years out is more than triple the most state schools. Going to an Ivy is a ticket to a different way of thinking and a much more expanded set of options. And since when are Brown, Northwestern, and Chicago more prestigious than Penn and Dartmouth? Not in my world.</p>
<p>I actually think it's your school. Case is known for having some of the "unhappiest students". If you really can't see yourself thriving in that environment, perhaps you might look into a transfer. However, I wouldn't jump on the Transfer Train just yet. Wherever you are, there's bound to be students feeling exactly the same way you do; you just have to find them.</p>
<p>I totally agree. What you are describing is Case, not college. I have a ton of friends who went there and none of them really liked it that much. I never had ONE professor in college who didn;t speak English fluently. You need to transfer, IMO to a more liberal artsy school with a focus on undergrads. I transferred from Columbia to Dartmouth and found the academic and social experience to be MUCH MUCH better. </p>
<p>Also some colleges food is fantasic and the dorms are like palaces (Emory feels like a country club for example, UNC is beautiful). Others are the pits. You honestly need to look into a new set of schools.</p>