college vs. high school

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After completing the first year of college, the student can see a great difference between college life and high school life. I have been out of school for a month, having just completed my first year in college. I'm now back at that same college, preparing to start working a full-time job for the summer. That alone is a difference between the two lives of students. I'm also a music major. I was warned as I started my freshman year of college that music majors tend to look as if they are from desolate lands. I finally realize how true that statement is. In high school, being in music is just something you truly enjoy doing. In college, being in music is your life. You have no room for anything else. Add in a second major, and you really have no life whatsoever. So, differences I've noticed: 1. you can work at your college - not so much at your high school 2. your involvement with music in college is your life - in high school, it's just something you have fun with. 3. college means having to wake yourself up - you have a safety net with living at home in high school: your parents can make sure you're up 4. parents aren't going to call you constantly asking "have you got your homework done yet?" when you're in college 5. if you're at a lucky college, you have no curfew...meaning you can stay out until 4 in the morning and have nothing to worry about 6. procrastination is 10 billion times worse in college...you have no one forcing you to do what you need to do. Anyone wish to add other differences you've noticed so far?