1. Teachers will start to care less and less about you.
Through your 13 years of school from kindergarten to senior year, every teacher took the time to learn your name, help you and you always knew they cared (well at least most of the time). Then you get to college and the professors don't learn your names, they
seem bothered whenever you try to ask them a question and you're feeling sort of lost. Don't get me wrong, there are college professors that do care and will learn your name and will help you, they are a blessing, but very rare in their own. At this point, you learn to fend for yourself in the world of education.
2. You might think your sleep patterns will get better, but they will really get worse.
In high school, you stay up until midnight, wake up at 6a.m. and then regret your decision for the rest of the day, but that didn't stop you from doing it all over again the next night. But now you're in college, you don't have an 8am and you will finally get enough sleep, but then comes the parties, the homework, the all night essay writing and the study sessions that you're staying up until 4a.m. for. And although your class doesn't start at 8a.m., it starts at 10a.m. and that's not much better.
3. High school is MANDATORY and College is VOLUNTARY.
In most states, going to school is required by law and if you don't go, you get penalized. College is voluntary, college is nothing but your hard work and money putting itself to work. It can be difficult to the transition because you go from being told what to do 24/7, to deciding if you feel like getting out of bed today to make it to class. Studies have shown that the reason that kids fail in college is because they are not used to doing everything on their own and they have no self- guidance.
4. It is going to suck being a freshman again.
You just graduated high school and you feel like you're on top of the world but then boom, you're back down to the bottom of the totem pole. You're going to have to enjoy being confused all the time and not knowing where you're going about 95 percent of the time, you are going to annoy the upperclassman because although they were freshman not too long ago, you're still a child to them and it's just in their nature not to like you.
5. You're going to learn to be yourself.
Lastly, you're going to learn that high school was nothing but a popularity contest and you were just pretending to be someone you're not, just so people liked you. But in college, no one really cares what brand of clothes you're wearing, if you got the new Jordan's, or if you shop at Forever 21 or Old Navy. You learn that it's okay to be yourself because no one is going to judge you.
