Is the transition from high school to college as hard as it may seem?

Is the transition from high school to college actually as hard as it seems?

Here’s what I found :)

Yes it is hard because …

~ you are changing your lifestyle and your surroundings

~ you are learning to become more independent and self-reliant all while balancing your

  schoolwork and maybe a job

~ its harder to make friends and find ‘your group’ of people on a huge campus

No it is not hard because …

~ the type of work your doing is pretty similar to high school

~ the demands are close to the same as well, and you figure out your own way to study/take

  notes rather than being forced to do it a certain way

~ most college professors are like high school teachers, and allow you to do your work within

   a reasonable amount of time, at home

What I learned from looking at different articles was that it seems pretty clear that the hardest part about the transition from high school to college is the atmosphere changing. Many people addressed their personal struggles they had with adjusting to the independence and self-reliance that they had not had in high school, and how they overcame it. Those same people also commented and said that on the academic side, it was close to the same as high school. With a few exceptions, most of them did not struggle because many of their professors taught the same way as their high school teachers. This is not to say that college level work will be ‘easy’, but to expect about the same workload (maybe a little more) when attending college next fall. :)

Sources :

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/from-high-school-college-transition

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/young-adult/Pages/The-Transition-from-High-School-to-College.aspx