{"id":32,"date":"2013-08-29T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-08-29T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:28:07","slug":"college-its-not-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/2013\/08\/college-its-not-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"College: It’s NOT High School!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be only the first week of classes but I\u2019ve already discovered that college and high school are VERY different. Here are some of the main things I’ve noticed so far:<\/p>\n

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    You probably won\u2019t have classes with your friends. Shocking, I know! If you and your friends happen to go to the same university but are completely different majors, DO NOT expect to have classes with them! We\u2019re all big boys and girls now; I think we can deal with being alone for a few hours a day. I was a little crushed my first day when I didn\u2019t recognize anyone in three of my four classes, but I\u2019ve been okay so far. Some of my classes are actually pretty small, between 15 and 20 students and mainly freshmen, so hopefully I\u2019ll be able to make friends. On the bright side, if I come to absolutely despise someone in one of my classes, I\u2019ll only have to see them a few times a week!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Your mom won\u2019t be there to wake you up in the morning. My mom has woken me up for school pretty much every morning since Kindergarten, and one of the only times she didn\u2019t wake me up I slept through my alarm. It just so happens that that was the day of my graduation practice. Luckily I was only about 15 minutes late, but this could have turned out badly. It\u2019s important to know what time your first class starts at and estimate how much time you\u2019ll need to get ready. I brought an alarm clock with me because I know I sleep through my phone alarm, and I put it far enough away from my bed that I have to get up to turn it off. My mom usually texts me in the morning, but I have actually been able to get up on my own.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    You walk A LOT more. Before I came to campus, I made myself cute little notecards with bus schedules on them because I thought I would take the bus a lot. Well, I pretty much wasted my time because I\u2019ve only used the bus to go the CRWC or the west side of campus. Plus there\u2019s an app that tells you the bus routes, stops, and times. PLEASE bring comfortable shoes with you to college. I can\u2019t stress this enough. I\u2019ve already had to change my shoes a few times because I could literally feel the blisters developing on my feet. I\u2019d also like to point out that the walk from any building at the bottom of the hill to the top of the hill is no joke! I\u2019m pretty sure my legs will be super toned by the end of the semester. Right now, it\u2019s been a lot easier for me to walk to class rather than taking the bus, and in some cases walking is faster. It\u2019s been super hot this week, but so far I\u2019ve made it to all my classes alive and not too sweaty.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    My handy bus schedules for each day of the week. So far I haven’t used them at all.<\/p><\/div>\n

    There are definitely more differences between high school and college, but these are the main ones I\u2019ve discovered as of today. Don\u2019t be scared of college either! It\u2019s a big transition but I\u2019m really enjoying it so far!<\/p>\n

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    It may be only the first week of classes but I\u2019ve already discovered that college and high school are VERY different. Here are some of the main things I’ve noticed so far: You eat alone\u2026a lot! At least I do, anyway. And people don\u2019t care! I\u2019ve never been ashamed of eating by myself, and in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuslife","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jaelyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}