40 Life Lessons That They Don’t Teach You In High School, But You Learn Immediately In College

Group projects are born of the devil. The second your professor suggests a group project, draw a salt circle around yourself.

Well done teacher

I tried night school for a time but I was in an Infantry Unit with the Army and that cut into my schooling so much that I couldn't do it. We were called to the border with Russian tanks staring us down about once every ten days. SO, I was a flop in college.

So spot on.

Some were smart jerks to play dum so others can do the work

You're not paying to learn, you're paying for someone to make an official record of your learning so you get credit for it.

Every time I see comments like this, I appreciate even more the fact that education is simply free where I live.

:-'D

My nephew said the exact same thing.

...YouTube lessons helped a lot... 😂

Emotional support Kent.

Kent is getting a free education.

Can I upvote this like 4000 times?

lol oh that's great

What about his dust bath?!

I have to read some of these twice.... Use punctuation people!!!!!

No touchy

You are in college and you still can't figure out punctuation?

I used to grade high school essays in standardized tests. We had set requirements for scoring them from 1-5. I always felt terrible when I had to give a student a 1 for an excellent, well-worded essay because they wrote it on the wrong topic!

I've done that....

That is some very disciplined time-management.

Maybe he studies acting?

It's a chemical release. It's a necessity: you feel better afterwards, and you get back to work as you must.

That's called self-control.

he needed to cry

Very American problem, I guess. In Europe, if you are a student and have a car, you are the weird one. But the uni never has enough bike holders!

Lol true all around the world!

The trend is “everybody goes to college.” The level of education does tend to drop.

My university has a parking lot that is seriously a full mile from the closest classroom building, directly next to the athletic complex. Whenever anyone complains about parking they happily tot out how many empty parking spots there were in that lot today. That is not even remotely helpful

I can't agree with this enough. My university has a park and ride lot where you pay to park off campus and take a shuttle to campus, since the three parking garages on campus are always full between 8:30 AM and 3 PM. The problem is that this parking lot gets full early as well, so we have TWO more overflow parking lots.

What makes you assume they barely got through?

It is the difference in age of most of one's audience. College students are adults whereas high school starts at 12. Often school policy. Nothing to do with qualifications.

By far the best professors I had in University were these types... they never needed to "enforce" respect - we just respected the bejeebus out of them anyhow because they were friggin' AMAZING.

I know what this tweet means and agree with it but devaluing a job may be not a good thinking

I wish my students had a little more respect sometimes. I studied for >6 years to become a teacher, have a bachelor and two masters of science, but these kids seem to think a full teacher's degree (teaching biology to kids aged 12-18) comes with a carton of milk or something.

That's weird. In most of my classes there would be at least one person who got a coffee or something similar and brought it in without issue.

Yeah, that girl is going to go far in the real world. Employers love that kind of attitude.

I had a similar experience in college. A woman walked in with a can of iced tea. The professor told her to throw it out. She said, "I read the rules and that isn't one of them. If you don't want drinks brought into class, you can be polite and ask: I'm an adult." The professor approached her as if she was going to take the drink. The woman said forcefully: "IF YOU TOUCH ME, I WILL DEFEND MYSELF." The prof assigned reading, then wrote on the board: "No eating or drinking in class." The next day it was on the door. A few months later the prof was gone -- never found out if she was cut or quit.

My story from over a decade past is: a student came in an 11AM class almost an hour late, and had not shown up for some weeks; she also had turned in no assignments. She comes in, slowly, and sits, half-asleep. I was, incidentally, lecturing on federal vs state law in America, and used my oft example of a certain herbal leaf used for smoking (among other things). She shouted out... "But....I have a card from the doctor! I can use it!" The class began to murmur in quiet laughter. I merely responded that it is a still a federal crime, even if our state does not enforce federal laws. She jumped up, shouting "Oh, s##t!" and ran out of the classroom. I never saw her again. -Dr M, ret prof

No respect for school. Stay at home.