45 Funny Things They Never Tell You In High School But That You Learn Instantly In College
Middle and high school are full of constant references to the nebulous world of college, where iron-willed professors typically rule over the student body. Then you get there and everyday occurrences seem to be taken out of discarded sitcom scripts.
Netizens share their hilarious, chaotic and relatable thoughts on what going to college is really like. From zany professors, terrible diets to academic burnout and late night shenanigans, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to add your own thoughts and experiences in the comments section below.
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In my previous profession a guy who was on the fast track nearly lost his job becaues of this outlook, was tasked with training up 6 individuals and told them if all of them pass he's not doing his job. Failed ALL of them because they didn't do the exam in the order he told them and was booted from training people forever. What a b*****d
I had one of these at university. A statistician. He was a dîck. He's dead now. No correlation.
Some classes just are pretty hard, even if the professor is good. Different subjects - different difficulty.
Professors who brag like this are doing it precisely to get people to drop their class. They want fewer exams and papers to grade.
I couldn't agree with this more. Some professors forget that we're paying through the nose (some for years) to be properly taught/trained. They are providing a paid service. If I wouldn't tolerate that haughty attitude from a store clerk, I sure am not tolerating it from someone I'm spending thousands of dollars on.
I had a psych professor at USC-Columbia who gave t-shirts to the three highest grade earners, which he had to curve two letter grades from the get-go. He wrote the textbook as well. He was a real PRiCK and he knew it. I barely passed. Steer clear of professors who write the course textbook. ARGH!
I've had High School teachers like this. Unsurprisingly, I wouldn't pass their class.
On the other hand, when the instructer tells you there are no adjectives in accounting, believe him.
had a professor that did this kind of announcement first class. it was for an english class. but, he followed up with the fact that if we stuck through it we would become effective writers. class had 28 students that day. next day, there were six. he was right. it was tough but he was fair.
"When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time."
It's an observed phenomenon called Social Loafing. People do worse and put in less effort when they're in a group.
I was a horrible college student, but I didn’t back down in group projects. I couldn’t be that person who caused others to do poorly because of my laziness. That’s the only times I did step up. I’ve matured greatly since then
Perhaps your soulmate is the administration building
Load More Replies...They don't, they just find a temporary solution to their hörniness.
My daughter met her husband in college. She had one wild night...she stayed up past 9PM, and went to get milkshakes at Cook Out. I know, she is a wild one 🙃
It is NOT a flex to have found your "soul mate" in the first weeks of college, it just means you stopped trying to make friends and settled.
You do know people can meet and make friends, without wanting them to be their soulmate, correct? I have many friends, only one of them is someone I'd consider my soulmate. I too met them and came to this realization rather swiftly afterwards in the grand scheme of things. I still made more friends after meeting my soulmate, lmao.
Load More Replies...I think there was a speach to text error in the birth of this term since technically one should only have a singular "sole" mate at a time rather than multiple. . . . Dot dot dot
They probably bonded over their shared inability to find the exact same building you were looking for!
Never found my soulmate in college lol fell in love, but as soon as he found out, he came out.
Nothing traumatized me more in college than having to take 2 math classes due to a "general education" requirement. And one of them was freakin' calculus! I still can't believe I passed it :D
Same. Even though the class I took was called "Math for the Liberal Arts Student."
Load More Replies...And that's why I did IB, no math in college for me or my daughter!
Sounds about right. And the more it costs the more you have to teach yourself.
Ah, yes, the “I am just an empty receptacle” theory of learning.
That's what I'm doing currently - minus paying for it. Many universities offer free courses online
If you're doing that, you may as well just take some CLEP Exams. Costs much less.
Dying of thirst in the desert: "Well, at least we aren't in middle school."
on death row, trapped in a dark cell with only my thoughts for company: "hey, at least i'm not in middle school"
Load More Replies...Oh, my dear child .... bless your lovely little soul!
Load More Replies...Middle school in torture. I loved college SO much. Would go back in a heartbeat if I could. Some of the best times of my life. You don't realize how easy it all was until you're an adult looking back. :)
The only thing middle school has over college is that the students won't be in debt for 30-years.
It does get better, with time. But then you have to pay all the bills, and go to work year round, fix all the broken things in your home, wash the clothes ... hopefully know how to get stain out, cook,, and smile no matter how bad it gets!
Load More Replies...Scholarships are money someone has given the school to pay for someone else's tuition. That donor gets to choose what the criteria is for awarding the money, not the school. So this tweet is not really at all summing up how scholarships work.
Load More Replies...Hey can you guys knock off a few grand for the gym that I'm never going to use but you're charging me for regardless?
what if I can kick/throw/carry a leather egg really well? - Woah! You are in, no worries about the money, it´s on the house.
Better yet, learn some obscure sport. They'll pay you to go there.
Load More Replies...I’m not very smart, but I can dunk a basketball! Colleges: free for you!
Oh what fun it must be to go through college with the person on a tuba scholarship assigned as your roommate.
Fun fact: If you're good enough at something you can get a double scholarship
I'm good at failing Spanish tests, can I get a scholarship in that
Load More Replies...What if I’m good at throwing a ball? Colleges: 100% of your tuition.
Clearly, her parents are paying for college - she isn't.
Load More Replies...that is one of the great things about college. You can drop a class for any reason and take it again with a different teacher later. This is how I found out how great summer school can be... 1/10th of the people and you can focus on completing some of the hardest classes
I took many classes early in highschool with summer school. Other benefits... It's more laid back and the teachers make it easier and funner. By the time senior year rolled around, I only needed 1 English credit to graduate. It made it so my morning schedule was 1 English 2 yearbook 3-4 Business multipurpose. Went home for 2 hour lunch, then work release that was part of the business class. Got both credit and a paying job. My senior year was a play year. So much more relaxing and stress free.
Load More Replies...Unless my class is in a lab, students can bring in any drinks that they want, as long as it's in a covered cup. However, if they are noisy, they have to leave. That is why I generally don't allow students to eat in class. It's difficult to do so quietly, and there are plenty of students who are distracted by the noise of somebody eating.
This one always shows up on these types of listicles and I never ever get tired of it!
I did it. All it take is discipline and not getting hammered the day before. No big deal
Congrats on writing this on a joke :-) I sincerely hope it made you feel better. However, jokes may not be the thing for you...
Load More Replies...I'm currently in school and I try to avoid any 8am classes, like the plague. Mainly because I commute to school, which is 2.5 hours away. Unless I were to drive my car the whole way, it would probably take 1.5-2 hours, but the cost of parking is insane.
Earliest class I had was 7:30 a.m. It wasn't bad. And it was art history lol
Earliest class I've ever had started at 7, but I lived an hour and half away from college, so I had to get up at five am. It was "introducción al conocimiento de la sociedad y el estado" (a deadly concoction of ideology, politics, history and sociology). I know I passed, but I can't remember one single thing. Nothing. Such a useless waste of time and effort!
Load More Replies...Loved my morning classes. They were small, of course, so we got more accomplished. By mid-afternoon, I was done. I was able to get a nap, do some studying, maybe pick up a couple work shifts,... and party.
I only made that mistake once during my first year. I'd go to math at 8am and afterwards go right back to bed. :)
100% accurate- I had to drop a class one semester, and I've never had to make an easier decision in my life!- that 8-"am class was gone off my list sooooo fast! (And that's despite loving on campus like 200 metres away from the uni!
Guy was sitting in the professor's preferred spot.
Load More Replies...Arrived for class late reminds me of the most egotistical, arrogant, sob of a prof I've ever had. Every damn time, he waltzed in late. As the older student, I finally spoke up and told him we pay his salary and that he needs to show up on time. I couldn't have shocked him more than had I slapped him. Funny thing, he was punctual from that point until the end of the semester.
College is better than anything I've ever known: A World's Fair, vacation at the beach, sex, Willie Nelson concert.. The only thing that might top it is world travel.. except the debt of course
Workplace relations the next year discussed the "Trail mix incident"
I had a professor email just after midnight "bachelorette party was NOT as tame as advertised. I'm not sure where my shoes are. No class today. If you saw me earlier, you didn't."
So accurate- most uni profs I had were wayyyyy more chill than my high school teachers!
Why is this so true though? Can someone explain. Is it because of aging?
More responsibilities on top of it. Kids don't have to grocery shop or plan out what they're going to eat for the week etc
Load More Replies...Today in school I: learned mitosis, watched a Holocaust video, learned the Spanish word for train, watched beauty and the beast, ran one mile, learned the quadratic formula, and read TKaM. In 7 hours. wtf
This is exactly my dad. He did track in high school and once fell asleep in the shower in med school and started dreaming of medical terms
Before covid I was able to wake up, take a shower, eat, go to work for 40-50 min and be at my desk around 7:30 so I could leave 15:30. :D Since covid I am working 100% remotely (same company), and I am barely able to wake up before 8. Usually 8:20 and start my work day at 9:15. BUT if I need to go to office (1-3 times a year) I have no problem with going back to morning routine. Wtf me?!
Must be all the partying. Least that's what I vaguely remember from those times 🍾
I am 61, with a PhD, was a professor for 20 years and I still have those dreams!
69 here, tertiary trainer and teacher, same fears! Plus, I lose my carkeys, wallet, and phone!
Load More Replies...I have that college dream too. Frequently. So do most of my friends. I wonder why it's so common? Stress probably.
49 here. I dream about being back in high school and failing a vital class that will cause me to not be able to graduate. I've had this dream so may times and for so long, that I've actually conditioned myself to think through the dream that this is just a dream and that I've already graduated. But dream me never listens and I always wake up terrified!
I have the "I didn't finish my degree because there's one more class" dream once every 6 months. I graduated 20 years ago.
Sweet Summer Child - I'm almost 60 and I still have days where I wake up terrified I haven't done my homework!
NO, wait, but NO!?- ITS NOT JUST ME!!!!??? I'm literally in my 40's and I STILL have nightmares about having graduated with my degree under false pretences- not helped by the fact that I LITERALLY can't remember ever taking a specific compulsory subject!
As a non-American I had to google what the ACT was and then went into a rabbit hole of googling SAT vs ACT . It feels alien because round my parts we all take the same test, the "bac" short for "baccalauréat", an exam instituted in France by Napoleon himself in 1808 and then widely copied continent-wide under many different names. As it happens, in my country, Romania, it's named the exact same. And that's just to finish high-school and get your diploma. And then, because I decided to be an architect, I had to take an extra admission exam specifically for that university. And for the latter, I even remember the date: September 9, 2001. You can probably guess why I remember it - the next day after the test I went out with friends to celebrate, got back early in the morning and slept until 3 something PM. Walked in the living room just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC...
I scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT and ACT and drove forklifts for 15 years, and have been fixing filthy wind instruments for 20. I always hated school
In Australia it's called the AST! My score wasn't great, but my year did so well generally that everybody's score got bumped up and I got into university! The following year they revised the AST to make it harder.
I’d imagine pretty good since a 35 probably meant he didn’t have to pay as much as you.
The first c9llege i went to had a sk8ding scale for SAT versus GPA(grade point average). So 8f you had a high GPA but bombed the SAT , you could still get in. With my SAT, i only need a 1.65 GPA . Thats 1.65 out of 4.0.
When I was that age, high schools didn't have GPAs. I know that's "normal" now, but when did it start? We had grades, and a smart kid might have a 92 average (or whatever), but it was never expressed as a college-style GPA.
Load More Replies...It's one of the tests that's used in the U.S. to rank students graduating from highschool so that the colleges have something they can use to filter the one's they want out of the onslaught of applicants each year. The highest possible score on the ACT is 36. A "high value" college may set their admissions requirement for the ACT to no less than 33. Any applications that have less than a 33 on the ACT would automatically be set aside. If the first round of 33-36 scores didn't fill all the available spots they'd then look at the next lowest bracket, say 30-32, to see how many they get. There are other similar tests that play into this game but it all works the same way. I think some colleges also use these scores when determining financial benefits the student may get but I'm not certain.
Load More Replies...In high school I scored great on the ACT and the recruiters would bug me for YEARS after trying to get me to enlist.
First, ask her if one of their parents owns the company where her "dream job" would be located. One never knows.
I'm in my dream job. It doesn't pay wonderfully, but I'm doing something I enjoy and doing good in the world. Oh sorry you meant something else.
Load More Replies...My sister's dream job in highschool was to be an electrician, and 4 years doesn't sound that far off for at LEAST being in an apprenticeship. So it really depends on what this kid's goals were.
Tell her that there will be no openings for her dream job and that she will be overqualified for everything else.
Part of the college experience is learning how to handle defeat in a dignified, mature fashion. Many of us have failed this course.
No. Let her maintain that enthusiasm as long as possible. Probably be the last time she'll feel it.
I ended up in my dream job, but only lasted six months before my body failed me. Still work in the same field, but not at the same level, which means I'm paid less, and I do fewer hours.
I went to a college with more students than my entire town's population. Overwhelmed, on the first day I stood in the quad with a map in my hand crying. Finally, someone stopped and asked me what was the matter. I said I couldn't find my class, and they said, that's nothing to cry about and walked away.
Wow, so helpful. I bet they were thinking "And there's my good deed for the day."
Load More Replies...I once went all the way to Sydney to attend a friend's play which was being held at a school. I arrived at the school after three and a half hours on the bus and another hour on the train... and there's nobody there. I'd gone to the wrong goddamn school. I missed the play.
Freshmen and transfers couldn't have stood out more had they worn orange safety vests. That dazed look, their heads swiveling, the halting steps, and the weeping on the curb.
I live in a college town and get so angry because restaurants keep opening up, thinking they will make it big because of the size of the college population. Then, they go out of business in the summer because the college population mostly all go home.
This is something that college/university DOES teach you: you're not the hot-shot you thought you were, lower your expectations.
This is something that the real world teaches you, that's why we stay inside on our devices. /s
Load More Replies...dude at my school, both are failing grades, 70 is passing by the skin of your teeth
Yes, it's humbling. One of the first things they told us at my university was "All of you were top of your class in high school. Now, most of you will be mediocre or less." However: as they say, 1) Cs get degrees. 2) Q: What do they call the guy who was last in his class in medical school? A: Doctor
Load More Replies...My college had "Happy Friday Guy". Dude riding on an electric scooter (like Razor brand stand up scooter, no seat), dressed in a superhero cape & eye mask. Shouting as loud as he could around campus "HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!" Someone eventually gave him a Tshirt with the official HFG logo superman style. We loved him.
https://ballstateaa.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/happy-friday-guy-campus-icon/
Load More Replies...Not all herpes wears a Cape? edit: HEROES! auto-correct in Swedish! 🙀
I still wonder what happened to 1000 word essay on Byzantian Christianity me 10 years ago and me now that takes a day to reply to "wyd"
do you remember how you did it at least? got 1000 words due for every subject this year
Load More Replies...i was the student that would turn in a small novella. fortunately, because my first language is sarcasm, the professors read them. one of them told me that he would normally just skip over long assignments but he would keep reading mine because he didn't know the next thing i would write and it was like a suspense novel of him trying to figure out if my findings/opinions were real for or for comedy sake.
One of my teachers in high school assigned five-page paper. When someone asked if it could be more than five pages, he replied, "Sure. Just mark the five pages you want me to read."
Well played, teacher! Saving your own time and squelching a toady in one swift sentence.
Load More Replies...I swear High School English teachers nit pick novels, trying to find a hidden, deep meaning to anything they can claim is symbolic, but ask the author and their version is "I like yellow. I think it's contemporary, and modern. Yeah, I like yellow."
I once handed in a table instead of an essay. You'd have thought the bastard would have been grateful
As in a kitchen table? Or more like a spreadsheet?
Load More Replies..."Now tell me, in a 5 page essay, making sure to use double spaces and indent your paragraphs, what did the yellow represent? What was the meaning of the car in relation to Gatsby and the time period? What significance did yellow have in the 1920s politics and economics?"
Load More Replies...So true. Though varied depending on the class and assignment between 3-10 page limits.
One of my lecturers extended the deadline by a week for roughly all 210 of us because she needed to mark something for the final years and wouldn’t get around to our stuff in a week anyway. Lecturers do not care as long as you show up. I had another lecturer who loved bringing up Jaffa Cakes.
Yep. I made my students make a video for a project. Told them it had to be between 5 and 8 minutes long. I am not watching 80 x 15 minute videos.
When I took welding the instructor said "some people weld better when they're stoned. It's proven fact. That said don't be the idiot in every class who TELLS me how stoned they are or we'll both have problems." Welding is taught in hs here now and I'm sure the vibe is way different. Then again we had a geology teacher who saw a few uf us come in, knew we were stoned and said "good maybe clay will shut the hell up in class for once." So who knows.
Accurate- I remember in HS I got in trouble for not righting an assignment correctly - apparently taking about all the gods ancient Egyptians had for their homes and farming etc, didn't accurately describe how religion affected their everyday life?? But uni- " here's your assignment- pick a random topic, give a 5 minute speech" and also "here's your assignment- it's technically sue in 2 weeks, but just get it to me before the end of the semester!"
My data structures professor would make tea while giving the lectures with a hot water bottle. We were joking about it, then the other day another professor who overheard us brought her stuff and made instant ramen while we took our test. Never seen anything remotely like that in HS.
My year 12 drama teacher actually did ask us to keep the lights off because he was hungover, more than once!
Do this in the breakroom at work too. Throws the whole room off when a newbie doesn't know better and everyone moves their seat because of it.
We do this during staff meetings. It's totally weird when someone sits somewhere out of the ordinary.
Load More Replies...So, so true! My students almost always sit in the same spots. Some even arrive early in order to secure, as Sheldon Cooper would say, their "spots."
Just try bookng a seat on a british train. Very low chance that you get the seat you actually booked.
That happens in high school too in my experience. If there’s no seating, everyone will work out where they want to sit, and they usually stick with it. With the exception of a couple of kids who float around.
I still think about a student I sat beside in into to astronomy back in 2001. We talked every week, but never exchanged info.
Same at work. Hot-desking simply does NOT work. People are creatures of habit and like to have their own space. Try going home to a different bed in a different house every night!
One high school teacher determined the seating chart every 6 weeks by placing us in the order of our most recent grades. That would probably not be allowed today, labeled as shaming. But it motivated this slothful student to absorb more than in other classes. Several decades later, hers is one of the few faculty names that come easily to mind. In a good way.
Assigned seating in high school is THE BEST and I always hated it when teachers would change the seating chart. Nuh-uh, that's my chair! I am always in that chair, and I like that chair! My feeble mind can't take the change.
THIS lol I think it gets programmed into us at a young age, so we get so used to it being the norm and do it as adults too 😆
Sounds like our 1st grade teacher in 2020! The kids frequently had to teach her how to do things on the computer.
I assure you as someone who worked at a uni for like 14 years, professors are not smart about anything except their special niche topic.
Load More Replies...Same! I'm almost 50 and I swear I'm getting worse about it.
Load More Replies...Story of my life. Then I crawl into bed, knowing it is all going to be the same again tomorrow.
You don’t gotta have adhd to be this was, just an introvert
Load More Replies...11pm isn't so bad - I was very productive during the night and wrote some of my best papers after midnight. We had this class where we had 1 book to read per week (every week!) and a book review paper at the end of each week, and I wrote all of them at night. Bonus: the books were usually pretty dark and depressing due to the class's main topic being war crimes.
Did anyone else do this: finally start working on the essay, write the first word, then suddenly feel exhausted and need a long nap. Anyone?
wow that's advanced. Our idiots are still emailing attachments around with no version control.
Text_latest_v3_CorrOfPictures_V3_BetterVersion_2.docx
Load More Replies...We didn't have that fancy stuff back when I was in school. ;) I actually even hand wrote all my exams! The internet was still in its infancy and schools weren't using it yet. We did have computer labs though, and all the slackers (myself included) would be there in the middle of the night finishing things.
I know that feeling, sure it was 2010 and from 2014 - 2017 when I went to job college, but that's Germany's digitalisation in a nutshell
Load More Replies......because the responsibility for attending lectures etc in university is yours (the student's).
I didn’t have an opportunity to go to collage until I retired from the military. I figured I’d use my benefits and get an engineering degree. I applied at a local collage and they turned me down because my high school grades were not good enough. It had been over 30 years since I left high school. I had learned a few things in that time. I was an instructor in a few fields while in the military. I applied at the lesser collage and graduated summa cum laude.
ever tune out for .00000001 seconds in math, about the same for skipping a different class altogether
Because you are an adult and can make the decision that some professors are horrible teachers. You can get more out of that time by reading the book or looking up a good lecture on line.
Load More Replies...All my classes bar two were compulsory so we were only allowed to miss one lecture and two tutes without special consideration or we would fail the class. This was okay for me except once, where I skipped a class when I didn't have any allowance left so I failed. I could have asked for special consideration because I missed the class because my brother was seriously sick and I was a wreck but I felt like it was blaming him for being sick (silly I know but I wasn't thinking clearly). I failed the class and that threw out my timetable the next semster because it was a prerequisite so I had to take a fifth year to catch up.
Serious: One of my professors escaped out of East Germany and came to the US. Gives you a whole different perspective on life.
My Chinese language professor once told a harrowing story about how people broke into her house as a child and destroyed her piano because it was "western" and then continued the lesson like nothing happened
Load More Replies...I currently have a teacher who spent a whole class period telling us the story of a guy she dated in high school that she cheated on, and he cheated on her, and he didn’t tell his mother when they got engaged, so she left him bc his mom didn’t like her. She also spends a lot of the time discussing the burning question: would she let (insert any student in my class) date her daughter? Favorite teacher ever
my mom had a Russian teacher who's dad got sent to the gulags for... something, I don't know if she ever found out
LMAO my original philosophy professor was the latter type. He was freakin weird. Complaining about his ex wife, running into walls to make a point...then he got fired. Second professor was much better. She was nice, loved my doodles, and made the class super fun and easy.
1 uni lecturer/: "My name is PROFESSOR Smith- I worked hard for my PhD and I WILL NOT answer to anything else but that name and title!" Other prof: " Hey guys- I'm your prof for this class- feel free to call me John, I'm from the US- anyone else play soccer!?- what team do you support because we might have issues!"
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That being said, garbage is disgusting, throw it out.
Too many students don't know how to properly decorate their rooms. You're supposed to put candles in your empty wine/spirit bottles, duh.
Decor? Maybe. But I do reuse my glass bottles. Slice up peppers, fill with hot vinegar, stick them in the windowsill (out of the way) for a couple months, empty, blend, hot sauce. Slice up fruit, fill with alcohol (strong enough to not freeze) of choice, leave in freezer occasionally shaking.
I leave fruit in alcohol for about three weeks in a dark place, it turns out great. I don't add any sugar. Why do you put them in the freezer?
Load More Replies...But if I melt a candle to the top of the wine bottle, it becomes an artsy candleholder so...
There are some really beautiful hand blown glass bottles that I will save and use a vases or whatever. Though the likelihood that the liquor bottles in college are the aforementioned bottles seems slim.
My sister inherited a heap from my brother when he moved in with his girlfriend. I have a feeling she will ask me to look after them as she in moving to a smaller apartment soon.
One room in my dorm had empty Coors cans stuck to it until you could only see the room number and the door k**b
But I LOVE my limited edition, 15 year old empty Kabila bottle shaped like an Incan statue!- it's so cute in my display cabinet!? And it brings back fond memories of icing drinks and being hungover!
College Professor Type 1 is an adjunct who makes next to nothing and works in a high school or record shop to pay the bills. (I'm old.... see, record shops were where you could buy songs because you needed them on physical media.)
I once sent a email to a Professor at 12:35am "I'm just sending this to see if you respond within 15 minutes like you said you would to all emails".... Less than 2 minutes later "Mr Cuneo you need to get to sleep." I never sent her any emails after 9pm after that.
Some professors take advantage of students, esp. the newbies because they haven't been taught that they are consumers paying for a service. Like I said earlier, when a professor got out of line, I'd remind them that I pay their salary and that they will be doing right by me whether they like it or not.
The service is to teach you a small smorgasbord from the history of ideas. Whether or not you learn is reflected in the grade you earn.
Load More Replies...As of yesterday I have a whole page in my chem notes devoted to the mouse that ran through the classroom. We love Chedder II. (This is in high school not college though)
I'm about to be a freshman... for high skl--everything comparing HS to college here is making me nervous, is it really that bad?
Not really. It's different, of course, but these examples are exaggerated (as most things on the internet are). Make sure you know of and use the support system that any college should provide.
Load More Replies...I never did all-nighters... Mostly because I felt like death the next day if I didn't get at least 6 hours sleep. Plus then I'd need an afternoon nap.
Never could manage them - always conked out at some point
Load More Replies...I never crammed all night for an exam, but as a computer science major I sure pulled a lot of all night programming marathons to try to get a project done on time!
Whenever I had a math exam the next morning, the toilet was *spotless*
Yeah I hit a point where I just can’t read any more and getting the sleep is more productive.
I remember being 20, at uni, study all night, go to exam the next morning, come home, chill, go clubbing/drinking that night to celebrate my first exam being over, then wake up hungover study for the next exam and so on and so on. And now- I'm 45 and if I get less that 7 hours sleep I'm a b*tchy zombie!
MANY students have cars on campus in the US, unless it's a campus embedded in the heart a major city. Some colleges will no longer let freshman have cars - there's not enough parking, and the school makes money on requiring them to live in the dorms. (And, to be fair, often this money is needed, since public higher education is underfunded.)
Load More Replies...and then they ticket you for parking in an illegal zone. Then you graduate and they call asking for donations! NO!
yes! what is that c**p about!?! 30 000 students and 2000 parking bays.
God yes. I always, without exception, arrived at the school parking lot a good 45 minutes early because it always, and I mean always took 30 minutes of chasing people and competing with other cars to get a spot.
I didn't have a car in college, what with not being made of money.
LOL got that right 😂 it made being a commuter a pain in the a*s at times
My housemates and I rarely risked driving to school because walking from the parking lot to class was more time-consuming and energy-draining than taking the bus. And after dark, they were downright dangerous.
And there was the one spot that was always empty under a tree right in front of the freshman dorm. Only newbies parked there. The squirrels were angry and threw acorns hard enough to crack windshields.
I was lucky. For me, college was academically much easier than high school. I guess it all depends on your major and the required classes and what your professors are like.
'No boys past 2am'? Is that code for 'your boyfriend can do anything you both consent to under this roof, except wake up here'?
I live in a college town and one of the frat houses hung a sheet from the second floor balcony, it was spray painted with "show me your tits" lol
I remember seeing a cardboard sign saying exactly that, hung from a balcony of one floor of a high-rise dorm at my college back in the 70s. I suspect it's a widespread phenomenon, frats or not. Humans at that age (of either gender) tend to be wild animals much of the time... impulse control isn't at its best.
Load More Replies...When I was a freshman, shortly after the Civil War, girls living in the dormitory had to be in by 10pm (2200 in Euro) on weekdays and midnight on Saturday.
My college didnt have houses for the sorority because ( never confirmed) there was a law preventing so many women who were not related from living under same roof. Supposedly was to stop houses of ill repute.
Load More Replies...I’m glad I attended a university that had no fraternities or sororities
Feels like a minor annoyance in high school... but like vile torture in college.
I had a 1.75 hr commute to college (30 min walk 25 min train 25 min ferry 25 min subway 10 min walk) from Staten Island New York to City College of NY. 8 am class. Arrive at 8:05 or 7:15. Prof gave us (i was not the only lonely) seats by the door and asked us to slither silently seatward.
Load More Replies...You have no choice in high school. All classes started at 7:30 am. In college you get to pick your courses and make your own schedule.
My senior year I had only one class on Fridays, it was from 8 am to noon. I loved that class. But sometimes I rolled in in my pyjamas, sometimes still in my club clothes from the night before reeking of alcohol (Thursdays were cheap drink night). Any other class was torture that early
I selected my graduate program because all the classes are after 6pm.
And why are the 8:00 classes always math or something like that? Maths at 3PM make sense. Maths at 8AM is just random noise.
I shouldn't admit this, but I switched majors *partially* because environmental science required courses were all at the earliest possible time. Also, I was struggling in those courses while absolutely killing my Psych (minor, originally) courses. It was definitely for the best for me, despite a stupid thing being part of the reason.
Especially when you have to walk 20 min. half uphill to school O_o
When I was in college, it was mandatory to be there at 8. The majority commuted in, by walking to the bus stop, taking the bus to the train station, taking the train to the city, switching over to the metro and walking the remaing km. After classes the same to get back home. 5 days a week. As much as this might sound to some as "barefoot in the snowstorm", it was and is just reality for hundredthousands of students here in Europe
Si it because at home you have parents that make you go to bed at a decent time, while in college you are on your own and you can go robed whenever you want. There is no restraint anymore
WHERE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Load More Replies...I will someone would put £1000 in my bank account every week without me having to work for it
And, it should be. But the US doesn't prioritize education, so I don't see it happening. Too many politicians believe what Trump said out loud, "I love the poorly educated" because they're easier to bamboozle and control.
Czech Republic it's all free. You don't even have to be born there. There are other places like that, too. Lots of them.
College WiFi.
"TV Licencing Vehicle" here in The UK is enough to scare most people straight... Large fines for not paying to watch the BBC.
ours is GetOffTheWiFiBox because all four kitties like to sleep on the modem it's warm.
Miss the days of eating random junk whenever because you're pope, gain no weight, not constipated from it and your body doesn't feel like it's dying because you skipped veggies for a day.
You can still return those days by healing your mucus. Gastritis is not developed in a day. More like in 10 years to be precise. Those years of eating junk contributed in developing gastritis just fine.
Load More Replies...My last 10pm bedtime was probably when I was eight, and then I'd still be awake until 1. One week in college, I literally didn't sleep all week and then slept through one of the last classes of the term
I was seldom home before midnight in highschool and never before 2am in college.
More students should use office hours. It's a great opportunity to stand out in the professor's mind, to get your questions addressed, to earn participation points, to get one-on-one tutoring, and to get hints about how to most effectively study the course material.
The problem is that students don't have a well-developed sense of what sort of things professors would love to help their students with ("You have to see Zoroastrianism through the experience of agricultural laborers from Ur religions") and what things will make their professors cuss them out on Facebook ("IT'S IN THE DAMNED SYLLABUS!!!") and simply internalize that professors are annoyed to see people during their office hours.
Load More Replies...To be fair, classes in college are harder and likely longer. For example, some of my classes back then were 3 hours long, with small break in-between. So I could only take like 2 classes max a day.
I nearly dropped a class when the lesson for that week included 5 pdfs and 4 chapters of a book I don't want to read and can't wait to set on fire.
I carried 16 to 18 hours a semester and did work study 10 hours a week. Y'all are soft.
Depends how many hours out of class you had to do for each hour in.
Load More Replies...There was a residence hall where the TV lounge was packed to the rafters with students watching afternoon soap operas. I was there unwinding before heading home or to work, but I was done with classes for the day. It was like watching people fail before my eyes.
One thing that was better than high school was that people's opinions of you mattered less and less as time went on.
One thing I definitely noticed was the popular people from high school hated uni whilst so many of us got to be ourselves for the first time and had a ball.
Load More Replies...No one is lying. College is way better than high school. You get to study what you're interested in!
EVERYTHING is better than High School. Being trapped in a blizzard between 2 avalanches while hearing more of them at 1am on the side of a mountain was better than HS.
Never went to any of the rowdy high school or college parties lol I was too asocial and wanted to stay out of trouble. Yep, I was a goody goody lol. Worked in my favor though. Really bad stuff happened at some of those parties 😬
My college dorm was right next to the frat quad, and it was awesome.
Load More Replies...No. But you have heard a colleague complain about how much marking they have to do.
Load More Replies...Totally different aims. School: The teacher's job is to make you learn. The teacher needs to see proof you've done the work. It won't really be read. Uni: The study is on you. Your prof wants to see the results of your work, not evidence of the process. The written work is the proof of understanding , not proof of work, and *will* be read. Or put another way: your uni written work should be the tip of an iceberg, whereas at school they want you to bring the whole iceberg in.
(At 18, I fundamentally failed to grasp this. So I handed in tons of iceberg tips and pretty much squandered my university years. You know how some people say "a degree is just a piece of paper"? Mine is, pretty much. I reckon a lot of the people joking about the diff between HS and college in this post will end up the same.)
Load More Replies...At the end of my last year of college my advisor (and professor of several of my classes) didn't get tenure even though she'd been there quite a while. (Which is a bad thing for professors) So she basically just stopped teaching.
I once had a professor stop, stare at the board for a full minute and then go something about this is wrong but I can't figure out what it is so I'll just email you all later.
Same with middle school. Elementary teachers: "your middle school teachers won't tolerate anything." The middle school teachers may even be more laid back than my elementary teacher.
imagine if the answer was false... or maybe this is reverse psychology to make them choose false...
There were people who got this question wrong. This person is an example of such a one. Not because she isn't smart, but because she has a suspicious mind that can't settle long enough to follow a straightforward instruction, without considering what the ulterior motives might be. In this case love, the professor literally just wants their students to select "True" 😘
Load More Replies...I saw one once that said : Choose the only available option and there was seriously only one option.
In the end the professor would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. - I've read 1984, I know what's up! /s
This might be to check if everybody's actually doing the test properly and not just check boxes at random.
We could smoke cigarettes in one of my classes, as long as we sat near the window and didn't burn anything.
Load More Replies...I had a professor in World Religion say, "Tomorrow we will be studying Eastern Theologies. I'm not endorsing this, but if you are going to show up to this class stoned, this would be the day to do it."
Lol lol 😂 Are you all sad because I flunk you. Want some milk duds. According to Sheldon, milk duds make everything beter.
Study session with the prof at the local tavern. Session lasted until we were all to messed up to learn anything.
It depends. I went to a public university (UGA) and was just a face in the crowd and the professors let you be you. I then went to a community college where the professors micromanaged and treated you like you were still in grade school. It was awful switching from one to the other.
This is actually a brilliant tactic, and one I wish I knew when I was still taking classes.
Meant to signify an explosion of emotion that cannot be put into words
Load More Replies...Where the prof tells you that he's 4 weeks behind in grading and hasn't the slightest idea how you're doing.
Load More Replies...And then the professor just says, "And this next part will be on the final......"
That depends on the situation. At my alma mater, if you had a kinesiology class followed immediately by an art class, you would practically need a police escort to get from one side of campus to the other in time not to be late.
Yep, I still remember my sweaty and impossible trek from some required humanities course across campus to Chem 2 one spring. Two years later and the course selection was computerized and we'd get warnings pop up when there wasn't enough time for travel. Great, thanks, I KNOW the campus now..
Load More Replies...wikipedia is fine. It's MUCH more accurate, technical, and detailed, than Britannica, and it has the original journal citations in the articles. So I (as a former lecturer), accept it.
Which you can find on Wikipedia. That little hyperlinked number at the end of a Wikipedia sentence is the link to the source material. So just click that and cite that page. Simple
Load More Replies...Wikipedia began as unreliable. But now it is lauded as one of the most accurate sources in existence
Oddly enough, outside of high school and college, no one will EVER ask or even CARE about your grades.
Sigh... Before Covid, I gave a sheet for every student in the class, I asked them to put it in their coursebook and write their own test result (one number per week) on the sheet. (Although, I should have expected them to record their marks on their own.) Every week - I repeat, every week- all of them received their previous test to check the mark. If someone was absent, they got it the following week. Guess what? The last two weeks I received e-mails from 90-95% of the students asking me to send them ALL THEIR RESULTS, individually.
Drunk guy taking a flying leap and body slamming a wobbly table (usually being used for beer pong) just for the hell of it. Very typical American frat experience.
Load More Replies...They are saying "in college, I can't procrastinate as well as I did in high school" hope this helps
Load More Replies...hmm honestly... it's about serotonin and dopamine. If you are more interesting than fortnight you'll get attention.
I disagree with telling a young teen they have to "be more interesting" if they don't want to be ignored by the person they're dating. It's a two way street. If you want to be in a relationship with someone, you can't constantly ignore them when you have something you find more fun. Either stop wasting their time and break up, or put in the effort to actually be IN a relationship. One the other hand if one person is legit too clingy and demands all of the attention and sulks when you need/want an evening or weekend to yourself to do fun stuff like gaming, that's a good reason to break up too.
Load More Replies...Think of a relationship like a plant - if you ignore it, it withers and di es. If you water it, it maintains. If you give it TLC, it thrives and grows.
I was a college professor for 20 years (in the United States). So, it is definitely true that many professors will treat you, the student, like an equal. Because you are legally an adult and that means that you are now responsible for your own decisions.....So they won't nag you about getting work in on time, or making up missed tests. It is your responsibility to make sure you fulfill the course requirements. And that means that if you get a low grade, that is on you, too.
And one way to treat students as equals is to not have an issue when they skip your classes. They are adults, they can determine whether it is worth attending a professor's class. Some professors' classes are not that important, some profs can't teach. I skipped many classes, I still got my STEM Ph.D.... And I hated when profs would spend the first day of class reading the syllabus to us.
Load More Replies...College is a lot less stressful than highschool, you don't hate everyone in college.
I was a college professor for 20 years (in the United States). So, it is definitely true that many professors will treat you, the student, like an equal. Because you are legally an adult and that means that you are now responsible for your own decisions.....So they won't nag you about getting work in on time, or making up missed tests. It is your responsibility to make sure you fulfill the course requirements. And that means that if you get a low grade, that is on you, too.
And one way to treat students as equals is to not have an issue when they skip your classes. They are adults, they can determine whether it is worth attending a professor's class. Some professors' classes are not that important, some profs can't teach. I skipped many classes, I still got my STEM Ph.D.... And I hated when profs would spend the first day of class reading the syllabus to us.
Load More Replies...College is a lot less stressful than highschool, you don't hate everyone in college.
