I need to know what to expect in college!
From all the mixed views I've heard about the difficulty level of college, all I can tell is that college is harder than adding 47 + 23 and easier than working in a concentration camp, so I decided to try and settle this once and for all:
Poll How did/do you feel about college?
EDIT: For the record, I voted in my own poll :P
Poll How did/do you feel about college?
EDIT: For the record, I voted in my own poll :P
I liked the social aspect - I finally made friends who shared a lot of interests with me, like science fiction, fantasy and games, and once I wasn't around all the same people I had gone to school with since I was 5, I was sort of able to start fresh and work on figuring out who I was rather than reacting to who everyone thought I was.
I liked some of the educational aspects, although I slightly abused the fact that no one was checking up on me and sometimes slept instead of going to class... or slept while *in* class. The most useful college course I ever took was Rhetoric, which I've found useful in all sorts of real-life situations, but most everything else I haven't actually used in post-college life.
I didn't like the lack of sleep... between social life, school work, and working 20-30 hours a week, I was always sleep deprived, which is not a good state to be in long-term.
I think you'll get the most out of college if you have some idea of what you want out of that, whatever that might be. Part of the difficulty, of course, is that straight out of high school, most people have no experience with working for a living, and only a vague idea of what they want to do to make a living. :-p
I guess, in my personal opinion, if you can use your college courses and the whole college experience to hone your ability to learn - to research and practice whatever you find you need to know, whether social, skill-based or knowledge-based - then it should be beneficial, even if you never wind up working in the field that you study in school. (Which happens to a surprising number of graduates!)
It's also a great way to see more of the world, and different people from different backgrounds than you might have encountered living at home and going to grade- and high-school, while still being in a somewhat protected and controlled environment.
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The reason I didn't put that as an option except for people who haven't been to college yet is because I intended for people who are or have been in college to answer with how they felt about most aspects of college.
I liked the social aspect - I finally made friends who shared a lot of interests with me, like science fiction, fantasy and games, and once I wasn't around all the same people I had gone to school with since I was 5, I was sort of able to start fresh and work on figuring out who I was rather than reacting to who everyone thought I was.
I bet I'd like that, too. Almost everyone I know acts like I'm the reincarnation of Einstein or something, so it'd be nice to meet some people who don't expect me to know every conceivable fact about the universe for a change. And it'd be nice talking to people who like math, computers, Mario, and Enya instead of sports and Halo. But even then, I would still need a little alone time every now and then and I'm afraid there won't be any...
I liked some of the educational aspects, although I slightly abused the fact that no one was checking up on me and sometimes slept instead of going to class... or slept while *in* class.
Sometimes I fell asleep in high school classes whenever we don't really do anything (even if there's some homework I could be working on), so you're not alone :)
I didn't like the lack of sleep... between social life, school work, and working 20-30 hours a week, I was always sleep deprived, which is not a good state to be in long-term.
I've already been sleep-deprived for the past 4 years or so, so I can only imagine how bad it would be to get even less sleep for the next 4 years... :(
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