How much harder than highschool?

frostburg2010
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:08:39 +0000

As others hav said, it depends on school, high school, major, course load,and most importantly(IMO) what kind of grades you want. I know of people at my school who are content with doing enough to get by and get Cs while hoping for Bs. That isn’t good enough for me, I work to get As and often as I can. I go to a decent 3rd tier school, and I haven’t had to do a ton of work all the time to get the grades I want. But, this school was a good fit for me because I didn’t have interest in hard classes in high school or going the extra mile to get better grades. I don’t work that way anymore and my school was a good place to make this positive transition.

I definately disagree about their being no guidance in college. It’s not true at all! You can get guidance in all areas from all kinds of people who are knowledgeable and experienced in the area, but, in college, you have to go find it. If you want to go your whole 4 years without guidance, you can. I wouldn’t recommend it, because you will need direction and reassurance at times, but it is possible. The thing that high school has that college definately doesn’t is hand-holding. No one is going to make sure you go to class or call you in to talk about your work if it reflects struggling with a class. That’s up to you.

As someone who is 3/4 of the way through a pretty successful freshman year of college, I recommend that you don’t blow of any classes or assignments, no mtter how trivial they seem, you seek our help if you need it, and you don’t overwhelm yourself with too many extra activities in addition to classes. Your school tries its best to make the high school to college transition as easy as possible, but you have to put effort into it.