<p>Im really excited to go to college! .. how is college life for a freshmen...can somebody tell me! .. is it so much better than hs?</p>
<p>Heh, well it depends a lot on what you're like and what the college is like, what your major is, and whether you're commuting or dorming.</p>
<p>I personally love college, a thousand times better than high school, and I much prefer living in a dorm to living at home.</p>
<p>for me at least, college is effing amazing! greatest time of my life, i never have a boring day.</p>
<p>Good for you being excited. So many people are afraid to break out of the high school bubble. College is SO much better than high school, imo. Lots more freedom to do what you want, you get to pick your classes, class times, and overall schedule, you get to meet a TONNNNNN of different diverse people, and generally just get to have a good time. It is hard work, I have to say, Chemistry is kicking my butt from here to Canada right now, but if you buckle down and study hard you can do well. That's not to say you can't party or go out and have fun, just limit it to weekends.</p>
<p>I found highschool to be WAAAY better than University... but I guess im in the minority lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, you are SoLonley. Why is it that HS was better. If you made friends there, surely you can make friends in college. More people to be friends with. </p>
<p>College rocks, but how it will rock for you will depend on you, your school, your major, as Gold Shadow said. </p>
<p>Do your best to find a balance between work and play. I do suggest that 1st semester you do more studying than partying, because that's easier to fix than the 2.1 GPA you could end up with if you party too much.</p>
<p>i like college better I liked my high school classes better (no studying ever cough cough)</p>
<p>I would like college even more without classes! dammit</p>
<p>College, if you do it right, will be the best four year period of your life. When I graduated it was the saddest day I've ever known. </p>
<p>People who end up hating college usually start with expectations that are too high, or won't break out of their comfort zones early enough to make a sufficient number of friends. If you're expecting nothing but intellectual conversations and people really caring about "depth", then you're likely to be disappointed. If you go in expecting that you'll meet a couple people who you can have those types of interactions with, but that the remaining 99.5% of people you meet might just end up being your drinking buddies, it's a lot more realistic. The other thing is you have to come into the first two-three weeks ready to make friends. You can't be thinking "i'll settle into it" and make friends midway through the semester. Seriously the first two weeks, you can walk up to anyone and introduce yourself and it will be cool, but once people start setting up their regular people to hang with, it's tough to break in.</p>
<p>Yeah well, theres alot easier work in highschool...and if your shy like myself you dont end up making alot of friends at all and end up have a ****ty time a University...and dont judge me: "You need to get outta your comfort zone"...well you have to realise that is extreamley difficult to do for someone like me.</p>
<p>Difficult doesn't mean impossible, stop making excuses.</p>
<p>college has been amazing, hands down. the people i've met, the things i've done, the places i've gone (especially in a place like Los Angeles...just last weekend, there's a long a story about partying in the Hollywood Hills with aspiring models haha)...hell, even the things i've learned haha. everything about college has blown my mind. i'm not particularly excited to be home again for 3 months this summer. what definitely helped make it amazing was keeping an open mind about people and experiences (and especially what i address below).</p>
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believe me...without getting into the issue of the academic challenge, i was my high school valedictorian, which meant while people were going out on weekends or going to parties, i was at home doing homework or just sitting at my computer. (that's not to say i "studied" per se...i didn't study for a single test in high school :p). so you could imagine i wasn't the most social guy for those four years...past the beginning of freshman year of HS, i didn't make many really good friends because i didn't really feel like i needed to. just in general, my entire social life and perceptions on one were skewed during high school.</p>
<p>so yeah, the shy excuse only goes so far. i was painfully shy at the beginning of the year (and believe me, i still am at times), but i knew from the beginning that if i didn't do anything about it, college would be even more painful. it was extremely difficult for me too, but it was a risk i was willing to take...it's a risk that i think almost always pays off in the end. but it's not easy, and it definitely takes practice to be social, and especially self-awareness and self-confidence.</p>
<p>Its great how everyone blames the person when they actually liked High School more. I think people are really exaggerating how great college is, not everyone is completely sheltered and under fascist rule in their high school years. I had about just as much freedom in high school as I do in college so the social life isn't that different. I prefer college academics though because they are actually academic, I wouldn't call my HS classes exactly a learning experience.</p>
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I had about just as much freedom in high school as I do in college so the social life isn't that different.
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What high school did you go to?</p>
<p>I was mostly referring to outside of school, my parents are very lenient. My high school isn't too authoritarian either. Sure, in college you can show up late to class but I never had that problem in HS so I don't have it in college either. Their isn't that much of a difference unless your high school really sucks. I went to high school in Northern Virginia.</p>
<p>The question should be what high school did you go to? Was your high school really that bad or are you just hyping up college a little too much? If your high school really was that horrible then it most likely isn't the case that your perception of college will necessarily help others. Bigredmed has the right idea, don't hype college up too much or you'll be disappointed, I really doubt that it will be THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE, if that's really the case then I feel sorry for those people. I intend the best time of my life to be raising a family and getting married, but hey, that's me, maybe I'm too optimistic.</p>