High School Vs

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HIGH SCHOOL vs. COLLEGE
The transition from high school to college, while pleasurable and exciting, can also be very challenging. It is a great milestone in ones life. A step that a student will either adjust to or struggle with. With many differences there are certain similarities as well, by which, one wont feel as if college is a whole new world. The more prepared a person is to face the similarities and differences, the more successful they might be in the long run, because College and high school are different. High School and College are both educational grounds for a student to grow and enrich their lives with knowledge. People who inculcate knowledge in students are none other than ones instructors. Both places are full of experiences and filled with numerous memories. An individual graduates from High School and again in College with a degree. The government runs them. Both play an important role in making a person into a collected individual and a member of a society. High school students know that there are differences between high school and college, but sometimes what they think is not how it is. High School can be considered as a continuation of elementary and middle school where one learns trigonometry, physics, American history, etc. By law, it is necessary and to a certain extent, one is forced to attend High School. There are rules and regulations which one cannot break, because there will be punishments for ones actions. There is a time schedule which one has to go by. Within the framework of system and order, there is also a social structure, which one must maintain and live up to. This is beneficial because a student at a young age learns the basic rules of work, and life, such as not to come to school late, and not to procrastinate. However the main focus for most high school students is the acceptance of peers and not their scholarly duties. This is the stage of life when a student must come to terms with what they are and what they will become, and there is always someone who wants to be better than the other students. As a result of these concerns, students go through an assortment of drama, which sometimes swallows a student like a Black Hole from which they cannot get out of. Throughout the year the majority of students wait for the school dances such as Winter Formal Dance, Senior Dinner Dance and the most important of the year, Prom. A good number of students endure High School just because of these dances, and most importantly graduation where they leave everything behind and don't have to be troubled about High School anymore. College on the other hand, is a choice if one wants to attend or not. A person has to pay for the education in college. So, if a student doesn't live up the expectations of college they know they wasted their hard earned money, or their parents'. Since students pay to get into college they

work and study harder than they did in high school. One comes on their own time schedule. The many different choices one makes and the repercussions of those decisions will be theirs and theirs alone, because now a student is an adult in college. Personal freedom is an incredibly important thing people like to have. Everyone likes to be able to do what he or she desires, whenever they want. It prepares a person to develop an understanding to get a job in a certain career. Therefore they study those required courses and finish their education with a degree and starts a career. As soon as a person graduates from High School, a sense of maturity comes in them. They start realizing that everything in high school was materialistic, and college is practical. College is exceptionally different than high school just by the personal freedoms, the classroom and the social life. In college, no one would be concerned about the basic everyday dilemmas that would surround him or her in High School. In college, one continues on their way of discovering who they are, and by the time they graduate, they have discovered themselves and are comfortable in their own skin. College prepares students to face real world, and how to handle it. College separates the mature people from the immature ones. Truly, I would never want to go back to high school. The cheap melodrama and pathetic mandatory attendance truly does not suit me. I love college and all the freedom that it offers. Now I am learning to be a better person and to think more critically. Whereas, in high school and college are mostly diverse, in the end the major difference is that the students level of maturity. In high school the student is obligated to attend. In college, the student must attend through ambition and hard work. In college there are no dances to motivate one to come. There are no troublesome dealings with foolhardy people. All there is in college is education. There are no teachers here to pamper to your needs. We don’t even have teachers here, we have professors. High school is only the first step, you need high school that’s a given.

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