|
| |
Next year, I'm going to college, and I am freaking out =(. I'm worried that it will be really hard and that I won't be able to maintain a 3.0 GPA (the requirement to keep my great scholarship effective). So a few questions.
1. Is college really hard? How much time would you say do you have any free time (meaning not having to study, go to college, or work)?
2. Is maintaining a 3.0 possible? (not only possible, but probable?)
3. Are teachers/professors as understanding/nice as high school teachers, or are they "down to business and won't take any crap"? (lol)
Thank you!! Please add any other things that I should know (besides not partying hard and stuff like that..I know) (link)
|
Colleges vary. But it's sure to be a very different experience from high school. For one thing, you'll be treated as an adult; you'll get more respect from professors, and that's a fundamentally different relationship from HS.
On the down side, they're much less likely to nursemaid you. If you screw up, they'll eventually take action, but the feedback on your overall academic performance may not come to you (not to mention your parents) anywhere near as quickly as it did in HS.
Is it hard? That really depends on what courses you take, and what your academic strengths are. And, of course, how hard you want to push yourself. For me, it wasn't as hard as high school; but that's partly because the whole social scene was different. Having said that, I will say that it's a mistake to take a route that's TOO easy for you. I took a lot of sociology courses, because they were easy for me. And while I learned some interesting stuff and ended up picking up a second major in soc/anth, to be terribly honest that degree has been useless to me.
If I could go back, I'd almost certainly go all-out for computer science. And the SINGLE course that has proved most useful to me - BY FAR - was a Computer Literacy 101 course that was taught by a sociology professor. Because before that, I was afraid of computers (this was in the late 1980s); after that course, I loved them.
And now I work heavily with computers. Go figure.
3.0 is certainly possible, and even practical. Just keep on top of things. As you obviously already know, it's really easy to get into a partying scene that will totally destroy your standing. I saw that happen a LOT.
College is a time of INCREDIBLE opportunity. Try to make the best of it. I wish I had.
Good luck!
|
|
