I was that kid in high school who didn’t appreciate anything about it. I couldn’t wait to get out, meet new people, not live at home, and never step foot into my high school again. I never expected to one day be studying for a test and mutter the words “I miss high school”

1.Personal relationships with my teachers

In high school you had a teacher for an entire 10 months. Its safe to say you would get to know them. When you have personal relationships with your teachers you can easily get leniency on late assignments or get points back on a bad test. Now, if its your problem if you do bad on a test or miss an assignment. Your teacher is not going to give you special treatment.

2.Extra help

Unlike in college, in high school your teachers were required to hold extra help sessions every week and usually your teachers have some kind of work sheet or power point prepared. Once you’re in college you have to take it upon your self to go to office hours with prepared questions.

3.Test review

Anyone else miss the day or so before a test when your teacher would review all the material that was going to be on that weeks test? Because I do.

4.Family support

Until arriving at college I didn’t realize how much I relied on my parents for support. (I even miss my mom nagging me to study). It’s much harder to be motivated to study when you don’t have the pressure of your parents checking your grades on parent portal or calling your teacher with concerns. It was also helpful having someone to give you guidance and advice when problems arise.

5.Getting credit just for doing the homework

As a bad test taker, I realized heavily in high school on the credit I got for simply doing my homework. Even if I quickly scribbled something on the paper the period beforehand. In college, all assignments are graded, so you have to try a lot harder.

College is an adjustment, but just keep trying, use the resources that your college offers, and eventually you will get used to your new life.