<p>see above.</p>
<p>the level of difficulty, size, age of students, content....shall I go on?
You really need to refine your question.</p>
<p>I'm currently not in college, but I am taking a Distance learning class for English 102 at UW-Baron County.</p>
<p>What's funny is....I feel it's much easier, the lectures have taught me almost nothing, and compared with AP English, there is pretty much no homework. NOW, the big difference is there are only 4 essays or so the whole class, so one essay can ruin your whole grade.</p>
<p>I like it :-P</p>
<p>I expect more difficulty while I'm actually in college though.</p>
<p>You're only in a college class 2 or 3 days a week instead of every day, little if any homework except reading (unless you're in a math or science class with problem sets but those still might just be assigned for your benefit and not for a grade), there might be 6 people in your class or there might be 400, you could have classes as a freshman with a bunch of seniors who are squeezing in their language/math/writing credit right at the end or there could be a 40 year old woman sitting next to you who's come back to school after 20 years, you might only have 2 tests a midterm and final or (in english) 3 papers and a written final, and so on. </p>
<p>It's a very wide range of stuff that can and will happen. Freshman year, I took pretty much all basic gen ed classes and they were really easy. Sophomore year, classes kicked my butt because they were alot harder than I was expecting them to be after my first year.</p>
<p>AUlostchick summed most of it up.</p>
<p>Most college classes also require you to be more self-directed, as you spend less time in class and more time out of class studying.</p>
<p>Most IB students that graduated from my students say that college is a helluva lot easier than high school.</p>
<p>Check this link to a nice chart comparing high school to college:</p>
<p>When someone asks a stupid question in a college class, you feel cheated out of a considerable chunk of money.</p>
<p>I love that link Mattmoosemom.</p>
<p>er, wrong thread...sorry</p>
<p>Excellent link Mattmoosemom.</p>
<p>@ somemoron</p>
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<li>Take fewer classes in a semester/quarter (usually 3 to 5 classes)</li>
<li>Class meets 1-4 times a week; expect larger homework workload (reading and writing papers) in the humanities and social sciences. </li>
<li>The professor could be a tenure-track or adjunct or TA. </li>
<li>The professors won't call up your parents if you don't show up for class. It is your responsibility. (Don't make it a habit in attendance-required classes)</li>
<li>You are required to write many papers as large as 20 pages in a matter of weeks instead of a whole year in high school.</li>
<li>Expect to condense a lot of material in a matter of weeks rather than a whole year. Improve your study and organizational skills.</li>
<li>You will study in a library in college unlike high school.</li>
<li>The class sizes will vary tremendously from 5 students to over 500 students. Expect introductory courses to be huge.</li>
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