About college #1 - All time war.
I believe that I am not the only one who fished in troubled water. By here, I mean that these people including me, we don't always put effort in school and studies, but we survived secondary school. I was the badass who copied the homework my classmate squeezed her brain to finish it. I will only study for examination, few weeks or few days before it. And term test basically was the thing I don't really care.
But when I came to college, I realized that burning the midnight oil last minute before final will no longer works. It is because here in college, your coursework which is assignment will decide whether you can sit for you examination or not. This is something new for those who don't do their homework. Coursework are given from beginning of the semester and that basically represents the starting point of your war. And you CGPA will not only based on your final examination, but 40% will be the coursework which mean you need to get your work done close to perfect if you want your CGPA to be high.
In a simpler sentence, last minutes changes in attitude is not enough, you need to give your efforts all the time during the semester.
About college #2 - Group mates.
Talking about coursework and assignment, I am also very sure if you have any friend in college or university, you will definitely see them complaining about their group member. The one you din't hear him/her complaining, he/she must be the one people are complaining. When you come into college, you will meet bunches of people, with different personalities and background. Some care too much, or some care less about their result. This eventually caused problem when you are doing the coursework. Imagine the following situation. IMAGINE.
Situation A
You care less and they care a lot.
When one person does not really care, he/she will definitely not putting much effort in the matter. But with all the despo group mates, you are forced to do extra work to produce a higher quality work. But there are still a lot of people who care less enough about what people say, they just don't mind handling low quality works to their group mates.
Situation B.
Exactly the opposite of situation A, you care a lot but they don't.
The moment you want your work to be perfect and hoping your group mates want the same thing, and they don't. You are struggling whether you should ask them to do it better but you are afraid that they gonna hate you. It is a hard decision between friendship and result. Well, people in situation B normally spent whole night before the day of submission doing correction and finishing work.
Situation C.
The happiest situation. It is either you found group mates who all care about the coursework as much as you do, or you all are just gonna hug each other and die. For those who decide to hug each other and die, I wish you happy titanic-ed.
Obviously I am the one in situation B, and I realized that about assignment, there are just the 6 words, 认真你就输了。
About college #3 - No one cares.
In secondary school, there are teacher keep urging you to do your homework. They would threaten you just to make you do homework lololol. But in college, lecturer and tutor does not really care if you come to college or not, they just do what they are paid for, which is teaching. Study is our own responsibilities in college. It become your own choice whether you want to make a full use of the fees you paid or you are here just because people say you need further education. No one including lecturers, tutors or even friend gonna force you but only you can make yourself do what you should do.
In secondary school, you are begged to study ; in college, you need to beg to study.
About college #4 - Why are you here.
In secondary school, most of us study just to pass our examination. because result is all we need. I seen a lot of people still carrying this attitude in college which i very much disagree. Try to think further, after graduation, you will be working. If we are still studying just to pass the examination and not really absorbing the knowledge, how do you survive working? How do we accomplish our job if we forgot everything that we memorized just for the examination?
You are here for knowledge, not to pass an examination and get a cert.
About college #5 - Underestimating.
Underestimating is an attitude. It does not just happen in college, but so far I have seen it happening in college everyday. Perhaps it is quite hard for you to imagine how it happens, and people who are doing it din't even realized about it. I need to break down into a few part to explain about this.
Underestimate 1 - people
We are all new to each other, we don't know each other. There are so much we don't know about each other, what we been through, where do we come from. We treat everyone as if they are just like us. But remember, everyone is different. There will definitely someone better among the people we know. Don't think everyone is the same, get to know them.
Underestimate 2 - to things
As we are absorbing new things everyday, I see some people underestimate the things which we don't even know it yet. Don't say a thing is easy before you tried it. Difficulties can only be judged after you do it.
About college #6 - Dry.
Here a little good thing, if you are looking for love life, you are in the right place. Fucking a lot of dry guys and bitches in school. The development of love can happen in one day, so may you get laid soon.
HAHAHAHAHAHA About college #6 is just a funny fact. When I say funny fact, I mean it is real and not a joke. You know what I mean.
So going into college or university is entering another stage of life like everyone said. It is new, there are things that we din't see it coming. Don't be afraid of it. Like the movie line from "After Earth", danger is real, fear is a choice. Fear will always be your weakness if you don't overcome it, get over it and it will be your ability. Get yourself out of the boundaries like what I intended to say in my blog's link. Let your choices for life be naked, not limited by society or anything. Push yourself over the limits.
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| Only you can free yourself. |
