College vs. Highschool

College and high school are both technically educational institutions. However, they're completely opposite in nature. While classes in high school didn't truly seem difficult as far as curriculum went, they did seem time consuming at the time. In retrospect, it seems that I never really did any work in high school. There have been at this point, at least three nights in the last 2 weeks where I haven't slept. I can't really complain, because at least so far those nights were my fault on basis of procrastination. College, even more than high school, seems to be a learning experience through which all aspects of life are taught. Relationships in high school seemed important at the time, but there again in retrospect a lot of things in high school seemed somewhat childish and misinformed, as if they held an importance that didn't truly exist. So I suppose high school kind of seems like something that was no big deal now, the course work looked childish as well as those ridiculous social aspects that we all clung to so tightly. But at least this can be said, the fake importances that we placed onto everything in high school really has helped us prepare for the real importances of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

I think that as much as Georgia Tech is all about education, it is also about becoming who we are meant to be, through joining a fraternity and finding brothers or realizing that you're better off alone, we transform while we're here, even in the first month. We are thrust from the sheltered arms our parents where we have everything provided for us and prepared for us to college where while yes, it's not quite the harsh cruel world, we still basically fend for ourselves. It is our responsibility to get out of bed on time, to actually go to class, to eat like we're supposed to, and even go to the health center when we're sick. Most of these things don't really seem like a big deal, as a matter of fact they really should't be. It should be something that's easy to adjust to, true, but at the same time for kids becoming adults who have never had to truly do anything for themselves, it's a true learning experience.

High school and college have nothing in common really, of course when I'm out of college and into the real world I will have once again gained new perspective and will probably think otherwise. Meanwhile, it seems that here at Georgia Tech if you can master or at least tame your grades/schedule, everything else falls into place as long as you're not one of those kids who hangs out in their room their entire lives.