I want to talk about the big differences that I noticed between High School and the University, not only in an academic way, but in a personal way. I don’t know if it was my lack of maturity, for being at an awkward age or because in fact it was like this, but I found the High School harder than the University.
When I study in the first one I was always studying for doing my best, for being the first in class and have good marks. I had a lot of homework and exams and it made me feel every time distressed and nervous. I had the moral duty to be the best and I couldn’t disappoint the rest, so I was under unnecessary pressure that I built myself. I got worried for simple things and if something didn’t success as it was planned, it was the end of the world! But since I have change to the University all became different, all is better. In the firsts days I was afraid, like everybody, but while time passed I notice that it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, maybe because you mark the rate, therefore you choose if you want to study or not. When I realize that if I leave a subject for next term or next year, it doesn’t matter, so I was the happiest person in the world (in the context how I used to be). And after time and years of experience, I’m able to don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
The teachers were different too. In the High School they were closer than the University, they were more thoughtful and worried for your progress. In the University maybe they are too, but is not usual norm: you are a number in their lists and they are more worried for their projects than the “new projects” we are going to be. That’s my impression. Obviously, we are adults and we don’t need to be on top of them.
But the best change was the friends I’ve done in the University and the times I’ve spend with them. It’s strange but when you are in the University you have more abilities for doing friends as you used to.
It’s a cliché, but it’s real: it’s the best time in your life! You don’t have important worries yet, like a mortgage or a family to grow up. It’s the time to start to do whatever you want (with some boundaries) and begin to fly by your own, discover new experiences and do things that when you are older can’t.
I’m between the end of that period of time and the beginning of next one and I remember with nostalgia the first feelings of that time. I hope that my news concerns of the new period can be like I had when I start the University: with time they will become to silly worries.
When I study in the first one I was always studying for doing my best, for being the first in class and have good marks. I had a lot of homework and exams and it made me feel every time distressed and nervous. I had the moral duty to be the best and I couldn’t disappoint the rest, so I was under unnecessary pressure that I built myself. I got worried for simple things and if something didn’t success as it was planned, it was the end of the world! But since I have change to the University all became different, all is better. In the firsts days I was afraid, like everybody, but while time passed I notice that it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be, maybe because you mark the rate, therefore you choose if you want to study or not. When I realize that if I leave a subject for next term or next year, it doesn’t matter, so I was the happiest person in the world (in the context how I used to be). And after time and years of experience, I’m able to don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
The teachers were different too. In the High School they were closer than the University, they were more thoughtful and worried for your progress. In the University maybe they are too, but is not usual norm: you are a number in their lists and they are more worried for their projects than the “new projects” we are going to be. That’s my impression. Obviously, we are adults and we don’t need to be on top of them.
But the best change was the friends I’ve done in the University and the times I’ve spend with them. It’s strange but when you are in the University you have more abilities for doing friends as you used to.
It’s a cliché, but it’s real: it’s the best time in your life! You don’t have important worries yet, like a mortgage or a family to grow up. It’s the time to start to do whatever you want (with some boundaries) and begin to fly by your own, discover new experiences and do things that when you are older can’t.
I’m between the end of that period of time and the beginning of next one and I remember with nostalgia the first feelings of that time. I hope that my news concerns of the new period can be like I had when I start the University: with time they will become to silly worries.