College Confusion...

Yes I rember when I frist went to college. It was so differnt than high school. so much more harder. I was not prepared for colege and I had to learn how to deal with many diffuclt subjects there, espicaly math. Parents enouch ther kids to go becase there is this perception that by haveing a degree that you will be able to make more money than a HS deplomia. I did go to college myself and it took me a long to to grad. sotimes I do wonder if it was worth it or not.

college life is very interesting so enjoy itt man as i thnk u are

Yes, I would go to college if I could, but first I would have to get a G.E.D. because I dropped out when my mom had a heart attack and I had to stay home and help her. She also had had a light stroke 8 months before that and had lost the use of her arm and had alot of problems. Then she went to specialist in another state since our doctors are mostly quacks..and she got the help she needed to get back on her feet. I also ended up getting married at a young age of 16 a month away from my 17th birthday. So if I had the chance Yeah I would..but I would be lost probably in a sea of confusion. Maybe they wanna keep the kids confused and make it as hard for them as possible.

So I was correct all those years ago.When I was 16 I told my mom I would pick a college with the highest tower so I could jump off. I Knew I couldn't take the pressure even back then. What is funny is that I have studied on my own all the subjects I would have taken in college. Silly me,I thought that objective of college is to Learn something. If the professors are speaking a language the students can't understand then how will they learn the subject?

I have graduated from college for one year.I have the same feeling about that. But that is perfessionally saying.Different major has different sayings.So we should adjust to this kind of teaching method. Do not think too much and take it easy.Because we are faced the same condition.It is at least fair.

Just follow some guidance who had finished their college life successfully, College is a beautiful life for everybody, those days will never come back in life, so enjoy every moment, don't worry.

I always heard that colleges try to flunk out as many freshmen as possible.Instructions from lots of "intelligent" people.

I wonder. I will say that those who can weed through all the verboseness of professors usually finish college. My son in law has a degree. He is a writer now and I have discovered that he tends to take forever to tell something I could have said in two sentences.

A 30-something friend of mine quit her job to go back to University and become a Lawyer. She stuck it out for the first year, and never went back. She said most of it was Bull. She went to lectures and could not separate the wheat from the chaff. Most of the students slept through the lectures anyway, so they could stay up the following night. She was just fed up with the whole curriculum. The New Wave is Study Online. Go at your own pace, No lectures to endure, live at home and save a bundle. The hurdle in that is- the kids love the wild all-night parties, the comradery, and the horsing around. Their parents need to lay down the Law! "Get your a$$ in gear, and get doing that course on the internet!"

They do it on purpose to a certain extent. Mostly because the kids need to organize their minds, improve their vocabularies, solve problems of all kinds (including understanding oblique instructions, something they will run into all the time in real life), and various other reasons. It's a real training ground for the 'idiots' that will be their bosses in the future! lol

I think that if anything professors do this to weave out those who aren't going to be dedicted because maybe they feel by the time students hit college, they should be out of their rebellious and party stage and dedicated enough to do their best. I guess it's also a test to see if the student is really ready for the field that they are going to be entering after college. Either way, if it's just plum unnecessary a professor shouldn't do it. Using bigger words doesn't make anyone anymore intelligent then another. If that's what the professors are basing it on, then that's just sad.

That is a terrible thing to do when someone is trying to better themselves. My stepfather was a college professor. He was a super nice guy but had no common sense whatsoever. NO, I never wanted to go to college when i was young & i sure don't now that i'm old. I didn't need a college degree to be a hairdresser or run an antique shop.

I graduate with my 4 year degree in December and while I have only taken about 15 classes online I would never attend an online only college because it really can get very confusing. I have had a few professors that intentionaly make life hard on their students and I have had a few professors that make you wonder if you are taking a college level class or an elematary level class. I also know that in majoy Universities they intentionaly make the freshman classes difficult so that some of the students will drop out. They want to only keep the students who are willing to work hard. As far as the drop out rate goes, I attended college right after I graduated high school and I was not a good student. I treated my college classes like they were high school classes and I did poorly. I did stop taking classes for 5 years and I worked. I worked hard at horrible jobs. Then when I had the opportunity to go back to school I did. I have worked my rear end off the past 3 years and have only made 2 C's and 2 B's with the rest A's. I do not think that I would have done so well if I had not had the experiance working without an education in the real world. Encourage your students that it really is worth it to try hard and do well in their classes, even if the professor makes it hard intentionally. It is worth it.

I am finishing up a 4 year degree and have taken online classes. I believe instructors do purposely make the work harder just to focus on the people who really are committed to learning. Then again, I've had some professors that I think just had absolutely no common sense and didn't even realize how bad the instruction for their assignments were. Most professors only want to deal with people that are willing to focus and learn.