Is college better than high school?

Does college have a better environment than high school? ?

  • I've just graduated from high school this year and I'm going to start attending college after this summer is over. Now that I'm done with high school, in retrospect I realize just how shallow and petty the high school environment was: -Rumors (esp. fake and/or slanderous ones) usually spread like wildfire. -The people whom you consider to be friends generally talk trash behind your back. -People obsess over what kind of branded clothing/items you wear. -Many of my fellow classmates (usually guys) are absolutely obnoxious. They also crack lame/racist/insulting jokes (backed up by obnoxious sarcasms), which I find tasteless but many of my peers find to be funny. -any quiet person is immediately picked on and/or bullied. The chances of this happening are especially high if the person is quiet AND smart. -everyone is obsessed about Facebook. You can't go 2 steps without hearing someone say "ZOMG DID U SEE HIS/HER FACEBOOK PROFILE?!" Knowing about your friends is good and all, but the conversations get annoying after a while. One instance that especially sticks to my mind was the time when I wanted to have normal chit-chat with one of my good friends, when my friend suddenly started ranting about how angry he was that some random guy "snatched" the 1000th post from his (my friend's) gf's wall. I told him to calm down and that it doesn't matter, but my friend argued that the 1000th post is a "special case." -all the pointless drama. 'Nuff said. So after enduring 4 years of high school, I'm wondering whether or not college is more of the same.

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    Expect a lot of the drama stuff to be in college also. However, you can hope that by soph or jr year many people have matured past high school years and you won't see a lot of this In the beginning you might see a lot of the same things since EVERYONE is fresh out of high school...but expect major change as people realize that they have to start acting differently.

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Yes, college is a better environment. It is a bigger world-- people are older and getting more mature...there are so many different types of people everyone can find their own niche. Facebook won't be all that important again until AFTER college when people are trying to reconnect.

Melissa

There will be cliques and drama wherever you go in life, even after college. Some people mature, and some people don't. However, I've found that the biggest difference between high school and college is that in college, people are responsible for their own lives (at least more so.) People go to class because they want to - not because it's the law or because their parents make them. Many people are also working. As a result, they don't feel the need to relieve their boredom through stupid things like getting the 1000th post. People are still in the middle of growing up in high school and college, so many people are still very immature especially in high school. So to answer your question, yes, it gets much better.

sanfranciscorain

It will depend on who you choose to hang around. If you want to hang with those kinds of people then it will be the same and even more of it, Facebook is still very popular but the quiet people just get ignored for the most part. Who wants to be hang with someone who won't talk and have fun? I saw less people getting bullied in college, because it can get legal really fast and you don't have to wait until they are of age to sue them and make their life hell. Also getting kicked out of school is more serious at the college level. So if you want to be a nerd in college all the better, if you want to be popular you can do that too. College is what you make of it, and who you choose to spend time with. Good luck.

Future Citizen of Forvik

well. regardless of where you are in life there will always be drama. it will always follow you. its up to you whether you let it affect your life and the choices you make. as long as my space and face book is going around there will always be talk about so and so's default picture, and top eight. its just the way the world as become. its sad.

Meghan R

It's better. But all of these idiots are just running around unsupervised now, so you can imagine... Nice thing is it's a lot easier to avoid people like that and I wouldn't say the college scene overall is like that. There's still stupid, annoying people around... but they pretty well stick to other stupid and annoying people. And college students still love facebook. You're a lot freer to hang out with people you like and only people you want to be around. Hopefully that's something to look forward to! :)

luckynumber_five

Completely different. College is very calm. People in the classes are generally quiet and respectable. And no one really spreads too much gossip around because the campus is huge and people don't know everybody! You will LOVE college after the high school experience.

lovelikewinter00

its all about da univ.

InfamousD

I couldn't agree with you more on what i hate about high school. as for youre question, yes i think it does get better. everyone, and i mean everyone, of my teachers has told me that i would do better accademically and socially in colledge than i do in high school. I also notice that i get along much better with colledge students (the relponsible ones anyway) than i do with my peers. But ofcoarse it all depends on who is there, and of coarse how long they have been there. i would expect freshman year of colledge to be similar to one or two steps more mature than senior year of high school.

logic_is_the_begining_of_wisdom

It depends on where you go to college and who you associate yourself with. I think there is an equal obsession with Facebook at the college level, but most people will become less obnoxious. MOST. Not all. The college years seem to be the time when most young people are really figuring out who they are and who they want to be, although some won't really get to that point until after college. Another point to consider is that by the time you graduate from high school, you have known some of your classmates for 12 years and that might be part of the reason you find them obnoxious - they are just wearing on you. Ideally, you'll not be in college for more than 4-5 years (excepting graduate programs) so you won't know the people you meet there as long as the people you see now in high school. Also, I hate to crush your dreams, but some people will be absolutely obnoxious for their entire lives because that is just their nature.

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