High School vs. College

Diana Hromava High School vs. College Many young people understand the importance of proper education for their future and think of going to a college after graduating from high school. The transition from high school to college is an exciting and challenging time. There are many differences between the life of a high school student and a college student. Some people will be able to jump right in and adjust to this change seamlessly. Others will take years to adapt or may never grab hold of the whole college experience.
High school and college are similar and different in many ways. For example, you can choose the subjects you are interested in and would like to study; both establishments demand a lot of time and effort if you want to be successful in them. There are many more ways, though, in which high school and college are very different. There are a lot of people: your parents, school counselors, different social organizations, etc. who help you study at high school even if you are not very motivated. It’s completely different with colleges; they are not mandatory and usually very expensive, unless you have got a scholarship or receive financial aid, and you are the one who takes all the responsibility for your own study.
School students usually live with their parents or guardians and to a great extent depend on them financially and physically. College students most of the time live on their own; in a dormitory on the campus or in a rented apartment and have to solve all everyday problems themselves. All these problems do not leave much time to waste, so a college student must be much more careful about ways of spending his or her time than a school student. Also many demands are placed upon high school students. For example, high school students are obligated, or rather forced by law to attend school until the age of eighteen and they are required to do and turn in their homework. On the other hand college students possess the right to decide if they want to show up for class or not. They can fail a class and not make it up and they do not have to turn in their homework if they do not feel like it. There is no law stating that a college student must attend class, be a full time student, turn in homework and pass each class. To a college student, the demand of attaining a higher education or graduating is completely up them.
College is a new experience all together. Students are not legally required to attend a college, but if students choose to do so they get to pick the colleges that they apply to. Not all students will get into the college of their choice. Students must sign up for classes and when they do they get to choose what classes they want and when they would like to take them. At college you also have more freedom when choosing your own curriculum and pace of study, while in high school you do not have such a freedom. Nowadays many school students prefer having a job if they want to make extra pocket money, though going to work is not vitally important for them. It’s different for a college student, who in most cases has to work hard to be able to support himself. This is the stage of life when a student must come to terms with what they are and what they will become, and there is always someone who wants to be better than the other students.