Those who say college is a lot different from high school are right. College is a lot different than high school. Those who disagree with me are the ones who haven't had their reality check yet. Below are just some of the things that give you the reality check that you aren't in high school anymore.

1. The faculty at college actually care about your future and your sanity.

2. You take a trip back to your high school and find out you are so much more mature because you are in college.

3. Bullying is actually NOT tolerated.

4. You begin to think of something that happened whether sad or funny and nobody understands because you aren't with your high school friends anymore.

5. Sometimes attendance isn't mandatory.

6. You can show your shoulders and not get kicked out of class.

7. There is no dress code.

8. When you pull out a pack of gum, there isn't a crowd of people around you asking for some.

9. Your professors will usually not care if you have your phone out in class.

10. You usually have 3 tests and 2 different projects all in one week.

11. Professors are most likely pretty chill about extensions on essays and projects.

12. You have to learn how to save your money because your parents won't be around to give you any spending money.

13. You eventually realize it's time to say goodbye to your high school years and move onto bigger and better things.

When you have your reality check, you won't truly know how to feel or what to do. It will just be a spur of the moment type of thing and it'll hit you so fast, you won't know what happened, You'll be sitting in one of your classes, your brain will stop working, you'll blink your eyes a few times, and you'll start to think, "Wow, I'm really not in high school anymore."