College and Schools Can Be this Much Different! By Vaishali

College and Schools Can Be this Much Different

In life there are those key- make or break moments that if bridged correctly, takes us to the next important phase of life. After school comes college, and young people who have undergone the transition from one to the other realize how different both lives are in spite their seeming similarities, while this transition is pleasurable and exciting but can also be very challenging. Some find it easy to shift from school to college, adjusting to all aspects of their new life. However, others struggle to face the changes and may even find them disappointing or depressing, but eventually endures it.

The phase of admission process is about to start as results are pouring out. Cut-off being declared by the university and counseling dates being announced, seems to be the gravest period for the students because of the increasing competitions, it triggers a great deal of anxiety and stress. Gone are those carefree days where everything was seemed to be served on the plate or can be quoted as spoon fed to us but college gives us the sudden bash of responsibilities and obligation on our shoulder to move forward and accept the reality.

·         In school we are more structured than college, which tends to address our personal freedom. Time is usually structured in a tight schedule of six long hours and has back to back class whereas college gives us free time in between classes.

·         School means everybody knows you and your life history. College means an opportunity to start from scratch, reinvent yourself, and be cooler than you were in school. You usually go to a local school. However, in the college, students are coming from the different parts of the state or country. This means everyone is given the chance to repackage their personalities.

·         School attendance is carefully monitored and is taken only once in the morning by the class teacher, whereas in college there is attendance for every class you attend, professors may not formally take attendance but certainly the percentage criteria is followed.

The school phase nurtures us for the further moral and higher studies whereas college phase becomes the mentor for us, which prepares us for the survival and moulds us into the reality of life. So the student should be armed with the right resources to cross each of life’s critical bridges. Moreover school, institutions, college and university, faculties, must have the fullest possible picture of the human being they will be working with in order to set up the best possible conditions for the success.