College is hard. With 8am classes, professors who can’t teach and competing for the best internships possible, you start to wonder if paying thousands of dollars is even worth it and you reminisce the days when adulting wasn’t so hard. In high school, your parents did the laundry for you and you didn’t have as much homework as you did now. But now that you’re in college, you realize that there are reasons why you’d rather suffer in college than suffer in high school, and here are only ten of them:
1. School Starting Way Too Early
In college, everyone tries to avoid 8am classes like lava on the floor. By some miracle, you were once able to get up at 5am, or any other time when the sun didn’t even rise yet, to get ready for school. Imagine if your Philosophy class started at 6:30am.
2. The Dress Code
The basic collegiate wears a comfy t-shirt or tank top paired with athletic shorts or leggings to school. Only the comfy t-shirt would be able to make it through the infamous high school dress code. For some reason, if you dared to show your shoulders or a little bit of leg, you had to change your clothes or you wouldn’t get your education. Also, who cares if leggings are real pants or not? They’re comfy!
3. Tardy Passes
Through divine intervention, you were able to wake up early enough to catch the bus and make it to school. However, the bell already rang and you were 3 minutes late, and now you have to do the walk of shame to get a tardy pass. Get enough of these and you would have to go to Saturday school. Get even more and you could be suspended.
4. Bathroom Passes
Your professor doesn’t care if you have to use the bathroom during class. Apparently, your high school teacher does, and what sucks is when you ~feel it coming~ like a song by The Weeknd, but your teacher takes forever to write you a bathroom pass.
5. Passes in General
You were a minor in high school, meaning that you were not to be trusted as much as an adult. Maybe the school faculty read too much YA novels about rebellious teenagers and decided that you needed to be monitored wherever you go.
6. School Lunch
There are so many places to go eat at college. At UGA, you can choose between Bolton, O-House, Joe Frank Harris or Snelling if you’re on a meal plan. There’s Jittery Joe’s in MLC and near the Science Library, as well as the Niche and a billion other places around Athens. No one forces you to get bland school lunch from only one cafeteria.
7. No cell phones allowed in class
High school teachers seem to have this radar that lets them detect phones from up to 50 feet away, and they act like you just insulted their mother by having your phone out in class. Thankfully, there are no teachers in college that would take your phone away.
8. No computers in class, either
You couldn’t take out your laptop without getting dirty looks from other students, so you had to take notes using multiple notebooks and binders. It’s just the norm in high school. In college, you could get away with only taking your laptop to class because it’s the new norm.
9. High School Fights
Most people who go to college are mature adults getting a degree that would hopefully lead to a job. In high school, you’re still growing up and learning how to be more mature, and unfortunately, some people mature at a much slower pace. They can’t control their emotions and they haven’t quite figured out how to solve problems peacefully, so they just fight it out. It’s not uncommon to see girls yanking each other’s hair or guys giving each other a black eye in the middle of the hallways when you’re trying to go to class. Thank goodness none of that really happens in college.
10. Slackers
What separates college students from high school students is that college students realize the value of a good education when it has a $30,000 price tag each year. Most high school students’ parents pay for their school if it isn’t already paid for by the government, so they don’t value education as much. Therefore, a lot of them slack off, and the ones who are proud slackers are really annoying. They just get in the way of anyone who actually cares about their future.
Of course, high school wasn’t all that bad. You had a lot of clubs you were able to join. The homecoming dances and prom were some of the most amazing nights you ever spent with your friends. You had a chance to really grow as a person during those four years. But the next four years in college will be even better, trust us.
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