Six Reasons Why College Rocks (In Comparison to High School)

I have completed my first sort of week at college. Classes started Tuesday not Monday so it hasn't been a full week, and also I'm not technically a "college" student (as I'm dual enrolled at both my high school and college), but nevertheless it was almost a full week and I'm sort of a college student. Therefore I bring you a blog post (in list form!) about college and how it's not like high school. At all.

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1. You Can Eat

In high school it was completely forbidden to eat in class, and if you were caught, God help us all. Eating in class was grounds for being written up and sent to the office if your teacher was feeling particularly mean although most of the time it ended with a warning and embarrassment as you got yelled at to put your food away. Now why on Earth can you not eat in class? Because ants I tell  you, and apparently at 17 we are messy eaters that attract bugs and ants and other things we do not enjoy to learn around. But somehow in college you can eat in the middle of class because maybe ants stay away from institutions of higher learning? I'm not sure. All I do know is that I ate animal crackers in the middle of my sociology class Friday and no one batted an eye.

2. You Don't Have to Ask for Things

Do you need to pee? Or maybe you want some water? Or how about stepping out of class to make a phone call? Well, go for it because this is college. In high school, you have to ask to use the restroom and depending on where you are in the middle of class and who your teacher is they may or may not let you go and it may or may not require a bathroom pass and you may or may not get a scolding about how you need to fix your pee schedule around the school's bell system. But alas, this is college and you can literally get up and WALK OUT OF THE CLASS WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD and no one cares. The professor doesn't even blink. This is insane I tell you, INSANE.

3. Somehow Everyone Can Learn Without a Dress Code

This past week I have worn athletic shorts, leggings, and/or a tank top (without a sweater!) and somehow the guys in my class managed to learn despite the distraction of my legs and shoulders. Life is crazy man.

4. The Magical Syllabus

In high school I had a few teachers who managed to give out a class syllabus at the beginning of the semester but they RARELY stuck to it. Come to think of it, I never had a teacher who stuck to it. But in college you get a syllabus with all of your tests already planned out and handed to you. There are no more teachers who give you a test with only two days to prepare when you already have a test in another class on the same day and generally a paper due in another. Sure you may have multiple tests or papers due in on the same day in college, but you would have already known about that at the beginning of the semester. College makes it so much easier to be organized because (generally) the professors have their lessons mapped out more efficiently. 

5. Less Time in Class

In high school I had four classes an hour and a half a day, yet in college all my classes are usually 50 minutes a day and we only meet three times a week. One of my classes meets a little longer because it's the lab for one of my science classes, but even then the lab only happens once a week. Although one of my friends has a class that meets an hour and a half, they only meet twice a week. Regardless, you're going to be spending a lot less time in class. 

6. No One Checks Your Homework

This might quite possibly be my favorite thing about college. No professor is there to hold your hand and make sure you answered every question on the outline in accuracy. I like this not because I'm a slacker who doesn't do my homework, but I like that the teachers no longer baby you by making sure you always do your homework completely and properly. Professors know that if kids don't do their homework they'll pay for it come time for the exam.

And I do believe this concludes my list of why high school sucks and why college is worth the thousands of dollars in debt.

Have a fabulous day.