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Discussion: What's harder? High school or College
Member Since: 6/10/2011
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Depends on your major a lot. For me college is much harder.
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Member Since: 4/26/2012
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College. I have to get scholarships, loans, and all that mess. Buy books, sell them, start over again. The hours are decent for my schedule but the classes are a challenge. HS is easy.
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Member Since: 3/4/2011
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College is harder. Way more stressful. I guess it depends on your major though. High school drama was hilarious and luckily I never had to deal with bullying, but I can see how that would be a factor. The social aspect is way easier in college.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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Actually, I'd say for me College is more stressful than harder than H.S. In H.S. we didn't have to worry about money. And even registering for classes I'm a wreck that whole entire week and want to die. 
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by BlooRiverAnimal
Well, HS you have to show up everyday and there's homework that's due the very next day and tests and whatnot but with College you have a lot more freedom and you can make your schedule around your own time, or how many classes you wanna take etc, but the work in College is more challenging than the work in HS.
Plus you have to be a lot more dependent upon yourself in College.
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All of this.  In college I make my own schedule and manage my own time. No teachers, principles or parents breathing down my throat every day.
My high school had a system where they sent home a mini report card at the end of every week that your parents had to sign and return too and if you were below a C in any class they had to arrange a parent teacher conference. 
I should make a poll...
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Member Since: 5/10/2010
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College, High school was a piece of cake
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Member Since: 10/16/2005
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College.
You have to deal with classes, living in dorms, hooking up with TAs and professors for better grades. It's rough, but I like it.
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Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Originally posted by vuelve88
College.
You have to deal with classes, living in dorms, hooking up with TAs and professors for better grades. It's rough, but I like it.
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Mess.
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by vuelve88
College.
You have to deal with classes, living in dorms, hooking up with TAs and professors for better grades. It's rough, but I like it.
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 I feel you tho
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Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Originally posted by cloudinthesky
All of this. In college I make my own schedule and manage my own time. No teachers, principles or parents breathing down my throat every day.
My high school had a system where they sent home a mini report card at the end of every week that your parents had to sign and return too and if you were below a C in any class they had to arrange a parent teacher conference.
I should make a poll... |
I remember that, at my school it was like during the middle of the marking period. They called them progress reports.
With college you can drop a class or add a class which a lot of people here take advantage of.
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Member Since: 11/27/2008
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It depends.
In High School, it's socially a lot more trouble because you have to deal with mean people on a daily basis. College is different because everyone has different schedules and so even if a person that you were enemies with in high school went to the same college as you, the chances of seeing them are a lot less. Me and my enemy are going to school at the local community college and even though she is there - I rarely see her so she is basically out of my life.
Academically, it's a lot harder depending on the subject. Professors at my school seem to give a lot more math problems than teachers did in high school so math homework is a lot harder. I actually dropped my math class last semester because I just basically zoned out a month before.
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Member Since: 5/22/2010
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Originally posted by Kworb
High school was harder for me just because I had to actually be there every day.  In university I could skip almost all my classes and just show up for the exams. |
 I would never do that, that's so damn disrespectful to the professor's. They're spending their time to teach you, not showing up to the class is horrible. That's like me coming to your birthday party, taking a shot of Vodka and then leaving.
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by Ahmed.
I would never do that, that's so damn disrespectful to the professor's. They're spending their time to teach you, not showing up to the class is horrible. That's like me coming to your birthday party, taking a shot of Vodka and then leaving. |
But on the other hand, you're paying them to teach you and to take the class. If you wanna skip, that's on you. They still get paid either way. I feel worse for high school teachers when kids skip. They barely get paid at all. 
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Member Since: 5/21/2009
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Academically HS was a joke. It was painfully easy.
College is so hard, especially when you go to a top school.
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Member Since: 12/3/2010
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High School for me. College is more of a quantity of work issue than difficult to me. Time management is really important.
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Member Since: 11/4/2011
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Member Since: 5/22/2010
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Originally posted by cloudinthesky
But on the other hand, you're paying them to teach you and to take the class. If you wanna skip, that's on you. They still get paid either way. I feel worse for high school teachers when kids skip. They barely get paid at all. |
I guess it's true. But personally, I have a personal relationship with every professor I've had. So not showing up to class would make me feel like complete ****. I try to make every professor feel as if their class is the most important to me.
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Member Since: 6/29/2002
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Originally posted by Ahmed.
I would never do that, that's so damn disrespectful to the professor's. They're spending their time to teach you, not showing up to the class is horrible. That's like me coming to your birthday party, taking a shot of Vodka and then leaving. |
Uh they're getting paid for it, it's not like they do it out of the goodness of their heart. To me lectures have always been pointless, I do not remember stuff that is said to me, I have to read it. And most professors don't even do anything more than reading their presentation out loud in a more convoluted way. So it was really nice when I was no longer forced to waste my time.
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Member Since: 6/6/2012
Posts: 4,660
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College. It may be easier and more flexible for people who have jobs, but then there's the constant stress of having to pay books, tuition, housing, and the pace is much faster. If you don't get good grades and fail a certain amount of classes you get put on probation, and you'll have to pay out of pocket, etc. The list goes on and on.
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Member Since: 1/3/2010
Posts: 21,098
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College.
I coasted right on through high school.
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Dining hall food.