High School vs. College

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TOP 25 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE

1. In high school, you do homework. In college, you study.
2. No food is allowed in the hall in high school. In college, food must be provided at an event before students will come.
3. In high school, you carry your book bag on one shoulder. In college, you carry your book bag on both shoulders.
4. In college, professors can tell you the answer without looking at the teacher's guide.
5. In college, there are not 'Tardy Slips'
6. In high school, you live with your parents. In college, you live with your friends.
7. In college, you don't have to wait in a certain lunch line to be 'cool'.
8. Only nerds e-mailed in high school because the cool kids 'didn't know what it was'.
9. In high school, you're told what classes to take. In college, you get to choose, that is as long as the classes don't conflict, that you have the prerequisites, that the classes aren't closed, and that you have paid your tuition.
10. In high school, if you screw up you can usually sweet-talk your way out of it. In college, you're lucky to ever talk to the professor.
11. In high school, fire drills are planned by the administration. In college, the fire drills are planned by drunk fraternity guys coming home when the bars have finally stopped serving them.
12. In college, any test consists of a larger percentage of your grade than your high school final exams ever did.
13. In high school, when the teacher said "Good Morning" you mumbled something back. In college, when the teacher says "Good Morning", you write that shit down.
14. In high school, freshmen guys hit on senior girls. In college, senior guys hit on freshmen girls.
15. In college, the weekends start on Thursday. (WOOHOO!!)
16. In college, it's much more difficult to figure out the course schedule of that man/woman you have a crush on, in order to figure out where he/she will be on campus at a certain time so you can 'accidentally' bump into him/her.
17. Once you've obtained that info, its much more time-consuming to run between classes to that place where you know he/she will be to 'accidentally' bump into them.
18. In college, there's no one to tell you not to eat pizza three meals a day.
19. In high school, you drink Coca Cola. In college you use it to dilute Vodka.
20. In high school, it never took three weeks to get money from mom and dad to go on a date.
21. College MEN are 'hot' while high school BOYS are 'cute'.
22. College women are legal. (WOOHOO!!)
23. In college, when you miss a class, you don't need a slip from your parents saying you were skip-... uh, sick that day.
24. In high school, you can't go off campus for lunch because it is not allowed. In college you can't go off campus for lunch because you can't afford it.
25. In high school, people that were on drugs, drank, were zoned-out, had untidy clothes or hair were called dorks. In college they're us.

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