Life in Highschool vs. Life in College

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<p>(Please pardon my grammar, its late)</p>

<p>So as the title says, I was wondering about the differences of each.</p>

<p>Let me first say that I am in highschool, and a second semester senior. I find highschool very stupid right now and I can not wait for college. I applied to all engineering schools also, and they are all big schools. Most are public, with the exception of McGill.</p>

<p>In my opinion, and with assumption/ignorance, here is what I think about the different aspects of both college and highschool, and the comparison between them.</p>

<p>Highschool Workload:
-Busy work, pointless, and repetitive.
-Homework everyday. Sometimes a lot and sometimes not.
-Easy to BS through. Ability to not do anything and still get by with moderate to good grades.
-Can make up work for full credit based on teacher's personality.
-AP classes prepare you for AP exam, and then somewhat for college as a bonus.</p>

<p>Overall, depending on # of AP classes, you can have a moderate amount of work to a lot of work; mostly busy work that does not engage you/stimulate your intelligence. You have the ability to cram everything, no matter how much you have, and still do fine.</p>

<p>College Workload:
-Different kind of work; engages your thinking and intelligence.
-Less time constraint, more relaxed.
-More work, but also less work because you have multiple days to do it.
-If you don't do the work, you might not get by. Lectures help you make up for not doing some studying afterwords (I guess?).
-While the intro classes are like highschool classes, the content in higher classes contains more practical and valuable information.
-Classes/workload are significantly harder to comprehend, but not over the top. A lot easier to deal with.</p>

<p>Highschool Social life:
-Good friends in some classes = somewhat enjoyable during classes.
-No life after school, other than go to sport/club, come home at 5-6, stay home and screw around on computer/do pointless homework.
-Very repetitive: Walking to the same classes in the same hallway for a year becomes boring fast.
-Idiot kids. Far from smart when your 14 years old. Walking by middleschool-age kids when you already have a beard is insulting.
-Filled with ******bags kids who take drugs when they're 13, and kids who wear ridiculous clothing. Baggy dress-pants that my dad wears to work and timberland boats are retarded.
-You know the same kids for over 7 years.</p>

<p>College Social life:
-You have to meet new people, especially the first couple of weeks. May be hard for some people. However, this is also a plus.
-A LOT of free time during the day. However, this is used mostly to study/read. (I think)
-You don't have to wake up at 6, and get home at 6, and learn nothing in between.
-Kids a more down to earth. Still some douchbags, but more variety of kids. Do not have to take classes with them.
-Ability to go out/hang out/socialize at anytime.
-Overall, more relaxed than highshcool if you spread out your time.
-Actual parties, and not the parties that include 5 kids and a girl with some alcohol.
-even better if your in a city. Nothing really compares.</p>

<p>Overall, college seems better in terms of social life. Little to no BS. Some girls still seem not down to earth, but they go into dumb majors. Smarter girls in your classes depending on your major.</p>

<p>As you can see, I focused on the negative aspects of highschool and the positives of college. I have to admit, I am biased towards college, but who isn't after their first semester of senior year. My question is that, from your experience so for, is this an accurate portrayal of college vs highschool?
What gets me the most is that I can not find anything positive to say about highschool compared to the everything in college. Obviously, both highschool and college have the positives and negatives, so I don't really need the "there are also good things about highschool and bad things about college" response.</p>

<p>However, I was wondering if this is an accurate portrayal of both? Were you as positive towards college as I am, and did it live up to your expectations? Have you enjoyed college more so than highschool? Is it more difficult for you in terms of the ratio between time and workload?</p>

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<p>I’m a senior in high school too, but my boyfriend is a junior in college. Because I get a lot of random holidays at my school, I usually go bum around with him on campus and sneak into his classes (which spending all that time on campus really doesn’t help my senioritis :P). From that and also from just asking him, most of the stuff you said is pretty much correct. However, it can backfire. Some people DON’T have good social lives so they do just go home when class gets out and don’t do anything. And while you have a lot more free time to do your work, personally it’s easier for me to procrastinate when I’m having a easier week. And I’ve seen my boyfriend and friends procrastinate a bit and trust me, you get really far behind really quickly. </p>

<p>Just from being in his “intro” classes that I’m taking the same class in high school (English, US History), it does seem to be based a lot more on knowledge than high school classes. In high school, teachers are usually trying to cram a school-forced curriculum through your head in a short amount of time. Or they get a rep for being a “hard” and therefore “good” teacher by simply trying to trick students on their tests and lower the class average.</p>

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<p>Yeah, that’s what I thought. Procrastination is the key factor in college, while laziness seems like a factor in highschool.
I wish I could go to college a couple of days, that would be fun.</p>

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<p>College is infinitely better than high school. No question. It’s more amazing in every way except you can’t always BS your classes. Sometimes you can, but not always.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I would like college to be infinitely harder. It would actually push me to try harder.</p>

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<p>I agree with your high school points. They made me laugh - I mean I know they suck I just pictured you bitterly mumbling to yourself about highschool =]
I’m excited to reinvent myself in college. New city, new friends, maximum awesomeness.
Your thread basically just made my seniorities THAT much worse, but hey second semester supposedly flies by.</p>

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<p>Being in a city is actually pretty abysmal for college social life. I go to a small suburban LAC, and the social life is very centralized; my friends who go to colleges/universities in cities say it’s disparate. Unless your college has a true campus within a city (Reed and Harvard come to mind,) city environs are highly detrimental.</p>

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<p>Depending on the college, you will pretty much read and write a lot and realize that time goes by extremely fast. Furthermore, depending on the major, you will realize you are spending absolutely too much money to do what you could have at home or a CC.</p>