The Differences between College Life and High School Life

There exist significant differences between students’ life in college and in high school, in terms of how much spare time they have, and the relationship between teachers and classmates. According to the freshman, most of them are not usual to the new life style in college. See the two examples given above , one the other words, we can probably say that college students have the freedom while high school students are restricted to have their own time.

Different from high school students, college students have much more free time to do whatever they want. For example, in high school, the administration has already arranged the courses, so every student has the same school time and spare time. Moreover most of them have to focus on the school studies. On the contrast, in college the only one who can decide to choose the course are the students themselves, so college students can enjoy a variety of extracurricular activities. In addition, high schools usually have three exams must past in one semester and college students only have two exams to deal with. So high school students will be much busier than college students. Thus we can apparently see that college students have much more free time to do whatever they want than high school students.

High school students can have a closer relationship with their classmates and teachers. In contrast with high school, college students aren’t so familiar with their classmates and teachers. For instance, in high school, classmates and teachers seldom change in one class, so everyone knows each other well. Unlike high school, in college each student haw the chance to choose what kind of class they have to attend. Because of that, the relationship between teachers and the students will not as close as in high school. Second, in high school, students eat lunch in class together, but in college, school will not restrict what you eat or who you eat with, so in high school, students can have more opportunity to know each other. Therefore, high school students can have a closer relationship with their classmates and teachers than in college.

Compare the differences between high school and college; we can easily discover the apparent distinction. Although there exist significant differences between college life and high school life, both of them are the academic place which every student must go through. Everyone has a difference attitude toward life; more and more life experience will only do well to one person. Those differences between them cannot be the judgment to measure which one is better. Because everyone has his own life style and they have the ability of self-controlling. And of course, everyone in every step of life has his own challenges to conquer. The most important thing is that what we have learned from it. Don’t ignore those challenges in the schools, because these are the reason why we get into high school and college--to achieve the accomplishments what we really want.