What a Drastic Change!

Back in high school, everything was so easy compared to college, right? Your mom did your laundry for you (ok well... mine did), you could get your homework done during your classes and never have any homework to do at HOME (which kind of defeats the purpose of it, huh?), you didn't have to study as hard because the teachers spoon-fed you the material like crazy, and you were able to drive yourself to and from school whenever you were old enough to get your licenses, and now you might be going to campus that doesn't allow freshman to have cars, and guess what, you fall into that category!

Those are just SOME of the few things I've noticed.

Before you go to college, most people tell you that the professors don't care if you show up to class or not. That's a lie. All of my teachers take attendance and keep track. It doesn't matter if they tell you about it or not because rules for attendance are listed in the syllabus and if you fail a class because you've missed so much, you can't complain that the teachers didn't actually tell you about it. They give you a syllabus for a reason and that reason is to read it for that kind of information. In high school, the school worked around how many days you were absent and you could pretty much not go, and they would still allow you to make up the work. In college, it's just a lot more complicated. Just be aware of the rules and consequences for absenses and consequences that come with them.

I don't know about you, but I studied an hour, AT THE MOST, when I had a test in high school. I've come here, and I've studied, AT THE LEAST, for three hours for an upcoming exam. This is getting to be a real problem. High school teachers did NOT prepare me for this at all. Assignments and tests were so easy in high school compared to the ones I'm taking now in college. You'd think the teachers would make things a bit more challenging, seeing as how they went through college themselves. Isn't high school supposed to prepare us for this huge step in life? I think so...?

I'm a freshman at Purdue. I can't go anywhere unless I take a bus, and that takes at least a couple hours to arrive where I need to be if I have to travel off-campus. At home, I could just hop in my car and go to the mall, the movies, a friend's house, etc., and now, I'm struggling with not having one. All I know is that I'm taking advantage of my car when I go home next weekend for fall break. Heck yes.

Little necessities during high school were so much easier to take care of than they are now too. Laundry, showering, shopping, eating, just to name a few. I'm finding myself become frustrated here with all of these little every-day things, and at home, I wasn't.

This is such a change, but you know what? College rocks my world!!! It's SO much more fun than high school!!!!!!