Hello!

I'm about to go to college and i would like to hear your story about you going to college and stuff. I'm interested to hear how you chose your course and how you prepared for your entrance exams. you know what i mean. I'm hoping to see a glimpse of other people's experiences and hardships growing from high school to college.

Why hello just to let you know I graduated college just a month ago so its still fresh in my mind.

I chose to go into Psychology and Sociology because despite being a "soft" science that certain people bash I found them to interesting a eye opening. I chose this field because I plan on being a social worker or working in any sort of human relations field. I wanted a job where it wasn't just a paycheck but a both selfish and altruistic feeling of helping someone and assisting in making some ones life better.

Through college I found myself, I met great friends, went through crap but not a lot of it and overall it was a good experience.

The best part about college though was that my views were challenged. Everything I thought of was put into to question from political, social and personal. Now I'm not going to say this made me perfect or self actualized but it helped me immensely in so many ways. Even if I run into parts of my life that conflict with my world view I can better handle it and understand it than I would of back in high school.

When it came to choosing courese their our the gen eds and course to you major. The course for your major were usually my favortites even to really hard ones. I found I did better in certain instructors classes when compared to others.

I would suggest that you spread out your gen ed course. Some want to take them all at once but that puts on to much of a work load. Also your class will be scheduled on certain days and you will have a lot of free time between classes. I basically made sure I put study time to make use of this free time. Though I will admit I suffered "senioritis" my last semester and I fell off.

Overall I wish you luck on your future endeavors.

I just completed my first year and am now a rising sophomore taking summer classes.
Since you asked about how to study for an entrance exam (or SAT since I'm in the US) is to do your best to study hard and cover everything from high school, focusing on your weak points and on what your chosen major probably looks for (such as focusing on math if you want to be an engineer).

As far as choosing a major is concerned, you have to pick something that you enjoy enough to geek out on. I like problem solving, making things work, and computers. Thus, I chose computer science. One good way to start is by figuring out what you like and what you are good at, then brainstorm and perhaps do a little research to help decide, or even look up more possibilities. You should definitely look at what classes you liked so far as a start. Also, your choice of a major affects what jobs you might be able to get in the future, so if you know what you want to be, that may help.

Once you get in, keep on top of your studies and homework, they will pile up fast. Fall semester was tougher than I expected and I got swamped with work pretty easily. It's not necessarily the next difficulty step up from high school, it's more like two steps harder, so be ready for the difficulty. That being said, if you're prepared, you'll do fine.

You might make worse grades than in High school. In high school, I made all 'A's and 'B's, but in calculus, a 'C' is still passing, and calculus is known as a "weed out class" to weed out the good students from the bad ones. Thankfully, I haven't failed any classes yet, but understand that your grades may be different than you're used to.

Good luck!

Highschool is better, collage was so flippin boring, geez. in school you got taken their by a bus rather then having to buy and maintain a car, you had friends you knew since childhood, it was free (collage is usualy not lolz), less work. seriously highschool was epic, collage was dull and life after collage is worse, sigh, how depressing.