From 1 in 450 to 1 in 7,500
Today concluded my first proper day of college lectures, it was a strangely satisfying, enriching, and awe-inducing day, as well as causing a realisation of how little each of us really matter as we progress through life.
Coming from 6th year, where we’ve been in a school for 5/6 years, and are the most senior students (usually carrying the highest levels of respect a student can hope to achieve), we go to a place where although we have the utmost respect, we also have a lack of seniority, and yet, it really doesn’t seem to matter. We’re now adults, and that’s all that seems to matter.
One of the “My God” moments, at least for me, was when you remember that there’s nobody there to look over you to make sure you’re in your lectures, nobody calling home to the parents, nobody going around checking you’ve done your work, the fact is that it’s all down to me, I’m the one that needs to be looking over my own shoulder, making sure I’m up and in my lectures and making sure I get my assignments done and submitted in time.
It’s kinda scary when you go from being the big fish in a little pond to a tadpole in the ocean.
Welcome to the ocean. I’ve been immersed in college life for about 3 weeks now and it was a bit of a culture shock at first, but you certainly get the hang of things. Hope you settle in soon
I wouldn’t worry about it, things are a lot easier than they let on. The general gist seems to be that if you just show up to lectures you’ll do fine.
I didn’t do ANYTHING but show up to lectures and I got through it. Three year degree, very few books got read
And then you graduate and find yourself working in some company and you’re back to the dynamics of secondary school.
Then of course you die after 40 or so years.
Welcome to life.