"College will be the worst 4 years of your life."
4 years of high school and this is the biggest lesson that my teachers have tried to drill in my head. As a brand new freshman straight out of high school, I must say that this whole college thing is frankly, disappointing. After being told story after story about how horrible college is compared to high school, I was not expecting to be sitting in classrooms of about 30 students, openly communicating my thoughts and ideas with both my professor and my fellow classmates. The image that was formed in my head by my well-meaning public school teachers does not correlate accurately to the actual reality of college.
Then why is it that public schools, and society in general, have such a negative perception on college? Is it just Weber State University that doesn't have the stereotypical professors who stand at the front of a lecture hall and drone on and on about a topic without pausing to check with their students? Am I missing out on a crushing amounts of homework? Or has high school really just over-prepared me that much for college? Before hearing what some of my fellow classmates had to say about what they expected college to be like I was more inclined to think that Weber State was just an easier school than most. Now I'm starting to think maybe it isn’t the college but my high school that has skewed my perception of college .
Hearing the views of a couple of my fellow classmates who had graduated over 10 years ago has made me realize that I had, unconsciously, only been selectively paying attention to how others view college. It turns out that not everyone has been conditioned for as long as they remember that college was just some horrible thing that you had to force yourself to get through in order to graduate and not work at McDonald's your whole life. It turns out that they had the impression that college was going to be easier then it is and that they could get by with only doing about 5 hours of homework a week like they did in high school. I may or may not have accidently let a little laugh slip out when I heard this confession. Only 5 hours of homework a week? Ha! I was lucky if I got by with less than 5 hours of homework a night, let alone a week. Has high school really gotten this much harder in the past 10 years or did I just put more effort in my homework then they did? Most likely I’ll never discover the answers to my questions and I guess I’ll have to be okay with that. College is college, whether you think it’s hard or not, it still stands that in today’s society, college is a requirement to be able to function in modern day society.
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