<p>What is the definition of a college life? How to be a “real” college student? When I entered the college, I found out that it is quite different from my mind. My senior high school teachers told us that we can do anything we want and play around if we enter a college. But now I’m a freshman, we have a lot of homework and tests every week. Did my teachers lie to me?</p>
<p>No, it depends on your schedule and how you manage your time. It also depends on what you spend your free time doing. How much free time do have each day?</p>
<p>Your teachers are obligated under federal education codes to lie to you.</p>
<p>Fact is that you can do whatever you want and play around; you just won’t have the best of grades</p>
<p>Sounds like you need to rework your time management…take advantage of time when there’s nothing going on, for example when you have free time from say 2-4pm on Tuesday instead of 10pm on Friday.</p>
<p>Also look at how you study, my freshman roommate always seemed to have like 9 times as much homework as I did until I realized that I’d go to the library and hammer everything out efficiently so I could party without guilt, while he’d lay on his bed doing work while talking on AIM for hours and hours.</p>
<p>I think the op is probably talking about the fact that he has homework and tests all the time and stuff. I’m still a senior in hs myself, but all of my teachers make it sound like teachers “don’t care if you learn the material, so there is no review homework and weekly tests” and that you basically just have to study. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s what I’m getting from it.</p>
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Exactly.</p>
<p>Seriously though, you can pick whatever major/classes you’d like. If you don’t want much work, you can pick an easy major. Or just don’t do all your work. Either way, nobody’s going to hold your hand and make you do work. That’s probably what they were getting at.</p>
<p>That’s right, college is what you make of it. Take a look at yourself 4 years from now (or less scary, in April), how would you want to describe your time at college?</p>
<p>Your teachers were kind of on the money- you do have more free time to play if you manage your time well.</p>
<p>You do realize you can not do all the homework and still do well, right?</p>
<p>If you want more free time to hang out and party, it’s all about beating the system, just like with the SAT or filling out your college apps. Read Ratemyprofessor and pick the easier classes. Learn exactly how long you can wait before you absolutely have to start that paper; figure out if you can skip some of the daily readings or non-graded homework assignments and still do ok. Don’t be a complete overachiever; just do what you really have to do and don’t worry about the rest. An A- or B+ is not going to ruin your entire future, I promise.</p>
<p>However, if you’re in college because you really, really want to learn everything you possibly can and have a 4.0 in, I don’t know, Engineering or something, you’ll have to realize that you may have to sacrifice the fun things in college. You have choices: read the whole book for this class, or skim it and read closely only select chapters that sound pertinent and spend the extra time doing whatever. It’s all a game, a balancing act. Those who play the game the best win–They have the whole college experience to show for their efforts. Just decide what you think is most important.</p>
<p>I’ve found that one way to get “more” time out of every week is to go to the library if you have a one hour break in between classes instead of going back to the dorm. Oftentimes the library is closer than the dorm and you can easily get a good amount of work done during the period instead of wasting it spending half the time walking to and from your dorm.</p>
<p>Another tip would be to not stop working until you have all your homework done on a given day. It’s much easier to enjoy your time when you don’t have that nagging thought of that paper/quiz/test that you should be doing.</p>