DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY (TRANSITION)

Most students create some different new characteristics , change their life or their friendships, environments and habits when they start university because university and high school life are quite different from each other. I think there are two major differences between high school and university.Firstly, students' educational life (school life) changes. In high school , for example, teacher -student contact is very close , but in university it is nearly impossible to have a close contact with teachers. Students sent email when they have a problem , mostly they do not even talk each other face to face. Morever, academic expectations are not always high in high school and minimum effort is enough for good grades. However, in university academic expectations are much higher and minimum effort usually produces poor grades. In edition, in high school while there are limited forms of assessment, in university there are varied forms of assessment and different kinds of information which provide students with critical and analytical thinking.. Finally and most importantly students' life style changes very fast.When students study in high school , they generally live with their family and they always feel themselves under control , so they can not do what they want. However, in the university they are free, they can do what they want. This freedom also provides them to learn to rely on themselves and begin to experience the results of their own good and bad decisions. Therefore, they become a real adult and individual.After away from the family , students also learn how to manage time, money, deal with some daily tasks such as meal, ironing,washing and solve problems by their own.At beginning they can sorry abouth these things and miss their family , but then they get used to this situation. In university habits can also change because of new friends and environment. For example, most students start to drink alcohol or smoke with friends. In university there are a lot of facilities, so students have a lot of chances to be social , active and educated people. All in all, university life is different from highschool life in terms of students' educational life and life style.