Did/Does High School Challenge You?

• iclfan2

  

  High school was a joke. College wasn't that hard either. The first 2 years were simple, then it got a little harder into my major focus. I actually had to put in effort my Senior year and Masters program.
• BRF

  

  I agree with all the freehuddlers who have said that hs was easy, then run into the wall in college. It took me two years to right myself.
  

  ccrunner609 wrote: HS wasnt hard but then again I didnt put much into it. I was very smart but didnt care.

  ^^^ and didn't care about grammar and spelling, either!!! ha ha.........know that I will ALWAYS call you out on that...........AND....I have the special privilege of knowing what you look like now!!!
  
  Just a couple more days, ccrunner609, and we get a nice break! What shall we tell all the "haters"?
• BRF

  

  BTW, swamisez, I like your avatar.
  
  It reminds me of a good old pal.
  
  
  
  DERF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <-----miss ya.............you, along with me, would have had a great time with belly on here!!!!
• mtrulz

  I'm 4.0 this year.
• mtrulz

  bcubed wrote: I went to high school as a freshman and the next thing I knew they woke me up and handed me a diploma!

  Aww what?! I wish they'd do that to me!
• NilesPacMan

  As a current high school student, I feel as if my high school isn't really all too challenging for myself. I'm top of the class with a 4.0 along with three others. Out of us four, the other three are challenged more than I am as they actually study for tests and junk while everything comes absolutely naturally for me. In fact, we'll learn something in Calculus on one day, and the next day, our teacher will have to leave the room to talk to our principal or something else like that, and she'll send me to go over the homework with the class as I actually comprehend it very well.
  
  From what I'm reading, I'm guessing this isn't going to prepare for me for college that well, and I'm actually kinda getting nervous reading this thread. I'm not the type of person who spends more than 15-20 minutes learning a concept, save mitosis (never have and never will understand mitosis), so I don't really study all too much. I guess this scenario applies to my cousin, as he didn't study much in high school, and he didn't do well at all his first year of college.
  
  So, to answer the question, high school isn't really challenging myself.
• kiksfomikee

  I didn't do a thing in high school and got a 3.9 first semester in college I got about a 3.7...
• sjmvsfscs08

  I got a 3.0ish? (maybe?) in HS because I had the same math teacher throughout all of my years at Cardinal Stritch. I got straight D-'s and yet somehow got a respectable 28 in math on the ACT. My senior year I caught her backtracking on changing my grades and she got canned. However the GPA stuck. Fucking bitch. I probably had a 3.8ish GPA in the other courses.
  
  It didn't help that I was smarter than the majority of my teachers, and I went to a Catholic school (translation: authority is always right. If you disagree you must be an incorrigible hedonist and your grade will suffer. Just shut up and do homework.).
  
  In college, I've found it's different. Not easier or harder. I broke up with my girlfriend and turned into an alcoholic my first semester and only got a 2.7. Once I got that out of my system, I got a 3.8 and and 3.5, respectively, for the next two semesters. Two years down, two to go.
• Mulva

  

  High school was pretty much a joke. I got a 4.0 with very minimal effort.
  
  College has been more difficult and getting progressively worse for me. I have a 3.5 cumulative but only got a 2.7 this quarter.
  
  I don't think the work is necessarily harder though. It's probably more because my study habits haven't changed. I study for 20 minutes, then get distracted by beer, pizza, and fusion frenzy. And also if I have any class earlier than about 11 a.m. there's almost no chance of me getting up for it. I didn't have the option of skipping class in high school so I actually retained a lot of information.
• Gobuckeyes1

  Graduated HS with a 3.4 and College with a 3.0. Both had their challenging moments, and I could have done a little better at both if I had tried, but I don't regret it. I had a lot of fun in college and wouldn't trade a higher GPA for my college experience. I am a firm believer that what I learned in college was 10% in the classroom and 90% out of it.
• myron pater boswell

  krambman wrote: I graduated from New Albany High School, and if you know anything about that school you will know that yes, I was challenged. I did graduate with about a 3.5 taking AP and honors classes, and I did have to work hard for it. College was about what I expected, and not much hard than high school for the first two-and-a-half years or so. It wasn't until midway through my third year that I had to start trying harder than I ever had. I could no longer start a paper a day or two before and knock out 10 pages and get a B. I actually had to start doing research and begin crafting the paper two weeks beforehand to get a B. It was a very difficult adjustment to make at that point, because I now had to work harder than i ever had before. Now, that's not to say I had just breezed through, I had just figured out how to maximize my work before that and now things were tougher and that didn't work anymore.

  
  Similar situation. I went from Upper Arlington--everyone's favorite suburb on this forum--to Ohio University. OU was cake for the first two years, thanks to how I was challenged at UA.
• GeneralsIcer89

  Agreed with the TC. I got through HS with no trouble and a 4.6, and loved several subjects. I've hated everything about college. Granted, I've had some downright asshole professors that have been out to screw their classes over (including one in which I had the highest grade in the course - with a low C), but much of college has been hell to me. I honestly think much of my issue has been realizing I've not enjoyed anything I've pursued as far as a degree, and I lose interest in almost everything. I still get mostly A's in college, and will be getting my degree in May, but I've had courses in which the workload has made me scratch my head as to when I was supposed to complete everything. It has been humbling in many aspects, but it is the fact that nothing interests me that scares me the most.
• Barry Badrinath

  High school didn't challenge me at all. I literally never did homework outside of school once my senior year including AP chem labs, papers, etc. and still graduated with a 3.8.
• fan_from_texas

  A big factor is the choice of college/major. Going from high school to study communications at Toledo shouldn't be much of a change, and I don't think most people would be overwhelmed by the challenge. Going from a bad high school to study physics at MIT is going to be a different story. I had college classmates who found undergrad to be much easier than high school, though for many (and for me) the opposite was true. In general, tougher high schools prepare students better for college. But there's a flip side to that, too: a friend who attended one of the top private schools in TX (avg SAT in her class was in the low 1400s on the 1600 scale) found college to be much easier, but at the same time, there were people in her HS who had great test scores, but bad GPAs (from the academic rigor) and struggled to get into truly elite colleges. Were they at a public HS and could pull a 4.0 to go with the SAT, they'd be Ivy League. Instead, they were at Texas A&M.
  
  Probably the ideal is a super tough high school with rampant grade inflation.
• OUgrad

  se-alum wrote: I had a conversation last night w/ a buddy of mine who is a teacher, and we both had the same thought. We think that those who it was tougher for to get good grades in HS, typically fared better in college? I know personally for me, high school offered no resistence. I took college prep classes, was in the National Honor Society, and not once in 4 years did I take a book home w/ me. I think I finished 3rd in my class. I didn't fare so well in college the first time around, because I just wasn't used to having to put forth effort. I had no study habits. I had never faced adversity in the class room. During this time, alot of my other HS classmates were doing much better than me in college. I eventually got it together, and got my degree, but it was more difficult for me, than it was for some of my HS classmates that didn't have the grades that I had. As a teacher, my buddy said he tends to see some of those same trends.
  
  Thoughts?? Did your HS experience translate well into college??

  No. Hated hs and didn't put any effort into anything. Took regular classes (not AP). Farthest I went in math was geometry and I got a D. Can't remember my gpa but I'm sure it was around a 2.0.
  
  When I went to college my father threatened me that if I messed around and got bad grades he'd pull me out of school which is what ended up happening. I then had to go to work, take out loans, and bust my butt when I went back. I graduated summa cum laude b/c I wasn't going to waste MY money. lol
• Thunder70

  

  High School was a breeze for me which is probably why college was pretty difficult...
• dlazz

  High School was a joke, I got average grades.
  
  College isn't a joke and I get average to below-average grades.