penfold1992 wrote:im confused.... americans call college high school and university uh the same? or different?
either way... high school in the uk was easy (11-16)
college was harder... especially if you have bad teachers or you have to shove 2 year courses into 1.
i dno about university though, i dropped out from college because im a mental wreck lol.
but dont get drunk... or do drugs, theyre so over rated.
theres more to life then getting drunk or doing drugs, unfortunately... just not much more to life then that.
A university is just a school with more than one college. For example, Harvard is a university because it contains the Harvard College and the Harvard Extension school (another college). Colleges are part of the university but usually specialize in different things. All universities will have a College of Arts & Sciences (most applicants apply to this college) and then some will have an Engineering college, etc.
SM-Count wrote:Ownage wrote:Really? Everyone keeps making it sound like it's a lot more work.
I can't speak for anyone else but I go to a good private school in U.S. on full scholarship and as long as you don't do anything retarded (like drinking before/on day of exam, skipping homework/labs) you can get straight As with less work than high school. High schools liked to give tests every chapter and multiple homeworks a week and stuff, college has a lot less of that. There's a lot less assignments (teachers and TAs don't particularly like to grade)
It's far less work than high school 99% of the time, the 1% is for classes that weed out stupid people from competitive majors like orgo for premeds, biomedical mechanics for bmes, algorithms for comp sci (hilariously easy), fundamentals for higher mathematics for math (complete proof based class that's more bitchy than hard cause you have to write things exactly right), signal/systems for ese etc.
I happened to double major in two schools (art/sciences and engineering) so I've taken loads of classes and it's definitely less work than high school the vast majority of the time unless you're in architecture, in which case you're farked. If it's business school then you'll have the easiest time of your life, all business school is is networking for 4 yrs. I know nothing about the art school though, never taken a class there and all the students are really weird.
Ah thanks for clearing that up. I am not too worried about the grades. I got denied from my top choice (Cornell), so now I am just going to an instate college and I will try to transfer next year. I am kind of "overqualified" for the college. Not saying that I can just show up to classes every now and then and still get an A, but I don't think maintaining a good GPA will be too hard.
I am more worried about doing the "real world" things like getting a job and whatnot. I know I probably sound snobby and lazy right now, but I haven't had to find a job or do too many household chores so far. I don't have a problem doing my schoolwork, but whenever it comes to household chores, I turn into the laziest person ever.
However, based on all the responses thus far, I think I should be fine.
Msg for lockerz invite.
