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« Reply #1 on: 10/23/07, 08:41 AM » |
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Re: any advice
posted by: iMOUNTED_yourGF
(In reply to Brown_Chiney)
As upcoming freshmen, we were all nervous to some extent. You have to realize that most of your classmates are going to be just as anxious, possibly even panic-stricken by this major academic transition. It's a typical human reaction (to fear the unknown). I remember how apprehensive I was to start my first quarter of college. The only positive thought in my head was "I hope the chicks are hot". I was expecting an unmanageable amount of complicated material to learn, ill-tempered/strict professors, and harassment from upperclassmen (which, as a senior in high school, I routinely administered on the freshmen). Thankfully, "karma" is a bunch of crock because students at the collegian level are tremendously more mature/polite/courteous than in high school.
The whole college learning experience is enormously different from high school (the guy who posted that "college is like 13th grade" is retarded). However, if you are indeed a recent high school grad, you will appreciate these major changes. Going from that monday-friday, 7:35AM to 3PM gruelfest, college will feel like heaven-- it did for me. Three-day weekends, edible (even appetizing) foods in the cafeteria, little/no homework, the ability to walk out of class anytime without permission, not having to show up to class when you don't want to (no detention or saturday school...woohoo) and best of all: you don't have to wake up at 6 in the f*cking morning anymore (unless you want to) because you pick when your class times will be.
High school is like jail time in comparison to college; you get so much more freedom in college. But, with these new freedoms come responsibility; in high school, you miss class, you get detention or some other form of inhumane punishment the school can come up with; in college, you repeatedly miss class and/or don't do the homework, you're probably not going to make it through the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I struggle to find parking, but every subsequent week it gets easier... why do you suppose that is? I'm not trying to scare you, but be prepared to read those textbooks like a Muslim on the Koran. In high school, tests were formatted to coerce you into memorizing names and dates... you're not going to see much of that anymore; you have to actually understand the material. The majority of your grade will be based on tests (midterms and a final). Trust me, it'll be a challenging, yet fun, life-changing experience.
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