College Education: A Comparison Of High School Vs. College

School is an exceptionally important phase in our lives. Elementary, middle school, high school, and college are the places where besides our homes we learn most of our principles and moral values. I consider high school and college as the most important chapters in my life. However, high school and college education systems differ from each other in various aspects. Back when I was in high school, I thought that college would be just a follow-up, but slightly more complicated. Now that I am a college student, I realize that it is considerably more complex than high school. I personally categorize college significantly harder than high school for the following reasons; complexity of subjects, treatment of the professors towards students, and

I personally think that people have a different mid-set when they are in high school than when the are in college. Students who attend to college have different priorities than the students who attend to high school. In addition, having different priorities makes students experience differences between college and high school. For example, students attending to high school have more leisure time because they have a regular schedule every week, so their weekly planning is considerably easier. On the other hand, college students are busy most of the time because they have to study throughly. Most high school subjects don’t require extra time doing labs or extra work; therefore, most high school students do not struggle because of the complexity of subjects. Mathematics is a perfect example to illustrate the different complexity of such subject given between high school and college. Students in college take mathematics at a deeper level, to point where a single problem could be solved in one or two hours; making students consider math assignments intolerable. in contrast high school students experience mathematics at a more broad level, so the assignments given are mostly done in matter of