What do you like about university/colleges?
By snoopy88
@snoopy88 (452)
Australia
July 11, 2008 1:14am CST
I am on my last year of uni and I have to say that uni is better than high school.
In uni, there is more freedom to do whatever you like and there is no high school issues as in popularity. I can go to uni and attend classes whenever I want or I can go to uni just to meet up with friends.
What do you like about university/colleges?
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@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
11 Jul 08
Hi! Frankly I love high school more than college. Sure there might be issues in high school but the friends are real and lots of them. Maybe thats just me because all 95 of us in the batch are pretty close. Even when the other migrated to other countries and transferred to other schools whenever we get together its like we were still classmates or something to that effect. With college there's not much friends. There are instances that sure you know lots of people but you just dont really know the real them or all of them. They are more like acquaintances and buddies. The good thing about college is the freedom, you are right about that. Freedom to go to class, freedom to choose profs, freedom to slack or work hard. The good thing about it is that we hold our time in college and we are our own boss.
@snoopy88 (452)
• Australia
11 Jul 08
Wow 95 good friends, no wondering you like high school more than college. For me it turns out opposite, the good friends I know are from college. At high school, there's too much rumors and popularity issues including gossips. No one really bother to talk to me when I was in high school as maybe I wasn't cool enough for them to talk to. Peer pressure issue you know.
@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
11 Jul 08
yeah so I guess it just depends on where we found our own place and sense of identities. I have to say eventhough we had lots of good times in high school, there was also some conflict but mostly against the admin. For some reason the admin has anger towards our batch.tsk3 LOL I still have close friends in college but I only have 3 very very close college friends. Anyways, no matter whichever we pick I guess its where we enjoyed more.^_^
@CornishAustin (147)
•
11 Jul 08
I love the freedom of learning!
The fact that you don't have to listen to a teacher talk for ages and having to write down everything the teacher tells you word for word. You are, in a sense, free to explore and learn as you feel. And, you are free to study when you like. At the end of it all, every child has to go to school, but when you're an adult you get to choose if you want to stay in education.
I made that choice to stay in education because I love learning, but I never agreed with the school system as I don't believe the system allows or encourages adequate, individual learning, and doesn't prepare them for eventual College and University life.
@snoopy88 (452)
• Australia
11 Jul 08
Talking about freedom to listen to teacher, you also got the freedom to sleep or take a nap. It is very rude I know. There was this situation last year where we were having lectures in this huge theatre where the seats are very comfy with kind of a head rest thing. So basically, with this comfy seat I could have lie down with my head resting on the head support thing. This may lead people to sleeping in lecture.
Yeah, I agree with you the system is kind of corrupted. For me, my university decided to switch from 14 weeks to 12 weeks which adds heaps of pressure. Even the professor doesn't like it but they cannot do anything about it. Well, the person who make this 12 weeks schedule is a person who made his previous company gone nearly bankrupt. Unbelievable huh?!
