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<li>u have more freedom</li>
<li>everything goes by in seconds: what took a month in high school took an hour here. also, i’ve been submerged in the pile of work so that once i have time to think about life, it’s actually a lot of time just passed by. </li>
<li>it’s a place where people expect u to know what u need (or just expected) to know. if u dont know, u lose points or get punished.
example: some professors dont like students to connect dots with lines. some professors require students to connect dots with lines in graphs. and they have different reasons. we just have to figure out. </li>
<li>and yes, again. they tell u everything relatively briefly and u’ll have to figure most of the rest. they might give u a simple formula in class but give an exam with a convoluted question (yet can still be solved with the formula after rearranging some variables).</li>
<li>some people who’ve stayed at home all their lives complain that they have hard time studying, focusing, or sleeping (because of dorm environment or people inviting them to parties/ games, all sorts of distractions). colleges have dorms but they dont have study hall hours. if u cant study in ur bedroom, library or with friends around, don’t stay on campus–> stay in less social apartment so u can have ur own hours and place.</li>
<li>professors ask very often if we have any questions, but we are more likely to have no questions (because we just can’t catch up with the readings) until the last cramming minute before exams.</li>
<li>there’s no curfew. nobody cares if u dont sleep the whole night.</li>
<li>mandatory is a joke unless it comes to ur student bill, and sometimes urgent health issues. most of the things if u dont do it urself, it’s ONLY your problem.</li>
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