Compared to high school, are opportunities MUCH greater?

College Life
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<p>Right now as a Junior I see high school as a place on learning <em>how</em> to learn. Develop a set of skills on how to time-manage/handle a workload efficiently.</p>

<p>And college is where research opportunities/connections become available and you use whatever skills you learned in HS to use.</p>

<p>I’m probably being vague, but what are your guy’s experience?</p>

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<p>I don’t really have experience with research in college but that’s because I’m a business major. You do get a lot of opportunities for it if that’s what your major involves though.</p>

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<p>One thing you have to keep in mind is that while there are certainly more opportunities in college, it is more competitive. From my experience it isn’t because college have more opportunities, it is when you are in college you have more freedom to FIND these opportunities.</p>

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<p>It’s not limited to your school, though. For something like the Rhodes Scholarship, you’re competing with the best from all over the country while in high school, you’d have competed with kids from your region, at best.</p>

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<p>You’re eligible for a lot more internship and job opportunities when you’re in college than when you’re in high school. Research opportunities are few and far between in high school but are usually pretty accessible in college.</p>

<p>Another thing worth noting is that you’re almost certain to find a better offering of student organizations, and the student organizations will actually do things (instead of sit around and meet weekly and eat food like many high school organizations do), so there’s generally more opportunities to get involved and gather actual resume items (not the ones you had on your resume when applying to college - ones that actually involve useful experience).</p>

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<p>I found while high school taught me how to study, college taught me how to learn.</p>