Author: cookie dough fudge

My overall college experience is a seven on a scale one through ten. Many college students are on their own for college and live by themselves. For me, I commute to school, so I never feel alone or worried that I cannot get a healthy meal. I really enjoy being able to have a fresh cooked meal my parents made, and sometimes I cook for them. I can use a full kitchen and prepare a meal I otherwise wouldn’t have in a dorm. However, because I live at home, I am not able to meet as many friends that I would have if I lived on campus. This makes it feel like I am missing the ‘college experience.’ I am seeing my friends post on social media the different things they are experiencing while I am at home having a very different experience. While, sometimes living at home makes me miss out on college, it has also taught me a lot and allowed me to mature more.

By not living on campus, I have been able to see my high school friends and continue making money. I can visit my friends whenever and have a ‘college life’ without paying thousands of dollars. I am very grateful to have the friends I met in high school because they constantly invite me to come down to their college for the weekend.  By visiting on the weekends, I can get a taste of college and what it is like living in the dorms. Because I am commuting, I can keep my jobs I had in high school. Throughout the week when I am not at school, I work on my family farm as an office assistant. And, on the weekends I spend my nights working at a local bar and grill. This allows me to make money I may have not been able to if I was living in the dorms. Overall, college for me looks a lot different than other people, but I still rate my experience a seven out of ten.

High school and college have some similarities; however, there are a few differences that have stuck out to me so far. The major difference for me is not playing sports. Throughout high school I played three sports, so each season I was involved in something at the school.  However, now I do not play a sport on campus, so I do not feel as involved at school.  Could I play intramural sports? Yes, and I have, but it is just not the same type of commitment and competition as it was in high school. In high school I was always up super late to work on homework because I had games or practices at night; however, now I can work on homework after my classes get done around 3 o’clock.

With this, time management is something that is another difference between high school and college. In high school I had to work very hard to manage my time because of sports, clubs, and the friends I wanted to make time for. But, in college my free time is all the time. You only have class 2-3 times a week, so you have time to get the homework done.  I don’t have sports to worry about either, so all the time I used to spend playing sports, I spend studying and doing homework. If I’m not doing homework I am hanging out with friends because you have your own schedule.  You are not on school time anymore. Overall, I feel high school teachers scare high school students that college is harder than it actually is.

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