There are many positive difference between high school and college. The freedom, the enjoyment of learning something one's truly interested in; my favorite part, however, is the freedom professors have when teaching. What I mean is, professors are not as restricted as high school teachers are. There are no regents, no SAT's, there is only what the professor deems necessary.

This freedom professors have has it's downsides as well. We all have had professors who seem to think we are all part time students who are alive solely to take their class. They pile on work and do as they please. I never seemed to mind; I took the hardest class I have ever had last semester with one of these professors. I had a five page paper due every week, it really wasn't fun. Yet, I learned more in that class than I ever had before. Granted this class brought down my GPA because there was simply too much going on to balance that amount of work with. I still didn't mind; that class was the best I ever had.

I can still ramble off statistics to prove that the criminal justice system is inherently racist. I can discuss different methods on how the rest of the civilized world treats their prisoners; many treats them better than us and have lower recidivism rates as well. It's classes like these that, when you forget the material discussed throughout the course, you can still be educated on the topics. That is what education is after all, being able to form an opinion after viewing all possible perspectives.

At the end of the day most of you will still prefer the pushover classes, I know I will, but I still want it noted that nothing worthwhile is attained with ease. Education is not a piece of paper one receives after four years of mediocre effort; education is something one can never fully achieve. It is the strive to know more about the world than the previous day.