How To Equip Me For College

Preparing for college is a strenuous task most students face throughout high school. Students have to be confident that when they graduate they will be readily prepared for the workload and responsibilities that college demands. Some high schools prepared their students for college much better than other high schools by pushing students to succeed academically. My high school, West Allegheny, is well known for our winning sports teams. They were more concerned that our sports teams thrived before they focused on academics. I didn’t participate in athletics, so I was overlooked by most faculty. I had to be responsible and dictate if my high school career would equip me for college. I prepared myself for college more than my high school did

My English teacher, Ms. Fox, treated us as college freshman. She graded tough and was strict with deadlines. When she graded papers she wasn’t lenient so when something was wrong, she marked it incorrect. In our papers she made sure we had college level sentences, words, and essay length. In December, a student from Robert Morris University, Miss. Pietrangelo, came to my English class to student teach. She told us stories from her college experiences and told us what to expect when we all left high school. She let us ask her any questions we had about college, and she would answer them as best as she could. She told us that we will basically live by the syllabus that the professor would give us. If we lost it, we would be lost in the class for the rest of the semester. Mrs. Fox and Miss. Pietrangelo held us to college level expectations and didn’t treat us as kids but as

During my senior year, I turned 18 years old, but I still had to ask and sign out to do anything. If I had to use the restroom, go to the water fountain, or get food at the snack bar, then I had to get a hall pass and the teacher had to sign it. If I needed something to eat, but it wasn’t during my lunch period I had to go to the principal’s office and have him sign a pass for me to go. If a student didn’t come to school, their parent had to call to say their child wouldn’t be there, and around lunch time the school would call again to make sure the parent knew their child wasn’t in school. College was a massive change from my high school. I have watched students get up in the middle of class to use the restroom, and I think it’s rude because I was taught that it is disrespectful to get up while the teacher is talking. The freedom in college was an extreme change for me that took three months to adjust to. Most of my professors don’t understand that in high school we were sheltered, so the higher level of responsibly is difficult to achieve for some freshman. I felt like I was being babysat in high school, so this didn’t prepare me for college because I was surprised by the freedom students were given here. Coming to college, I assumed I would still be treated as a child, not an