College vs High School

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For those who have been to both did you notice a difference between the two?
I find that the people haven't necessarily changed in College, but I get along better with them,(than I did in High School). Its still the same socially/relationship wise, etc.
Sometimes Im bullied, but for the most part I talk with a-lot of people. I havent succeeded in getting anyones phone number or becoming close but I do go to a-lot of clubs when Im on campus. The same was true with HS. I know what's instyle and whose going out with who, etc, but I dont get involved in those things.(Same with HS).

I do seem to notice though, that Im not always wanted in the subject clubs I really like, whereas HS I wasnt involved in many school clubs.(I did have other clubs outside of school though). Sometimes I think the HS jealousy is still in College, though I don't get why nerdy men in College wouldn't appreciate a woman whose interested in the same subjects/clubs? Or someone whose maybe not as smart as them in the club events?

Socially, it's no different in the early years.
I'm 23 though, so I just stay away from the young kids who act like University is still High School.
With that said, I'm pretty sure my University, and especially my department (Math) has a HUGE population of aspies so it's not entirely difficult to find people with that in common.
(and pretty much all of them are socially awkward in some way to be honest).
There is another University down the street, that's more business/sports oriented.. everyone there seems to be a freaking social butterfly, so I'll stay where I am

The only other difference with HS/College or Uni is that your learning is independent, and the teachers don't nag you about anything.

hated high school.
loved university.

I liked high school more than I like college so far.

I've liked college better than high school. People are generally more willing to socialize because I go to a huge school where people are just as long as I am. There is also a lot more freedom in college. Sometimes I will have three hours in between classes that I use to hang out with friends. I am also in a few student groups that I have met some great people in. In college it's a lot easier to have an intelligent conversation with people. Most of the people I talked to in high school didn't care about anything but what happened on The Bachelor last week and the random guy the were obsessing over. Now I can actually talk about more intelligent topics, or even really nerdy topics like science and video games. A lot of college students are surprisingly nerdier than me.

what's freedom in college when you are starving because you can't find a job, mother can't afford to give you money and nobody gives a damn? high school is much better

I never liked college (because I took something I had no interest in) but it was night and day! In college I could actually be accepted for who I was and could even sit next to someone with them immediately moving to another seat. I spent a day job shadowing at a college in Grade 11 and I wanted to stay there instead of a place where I learned more about gang turf wars than Geography. I would NEVER go back to High School but if I could go back to College I would. I missed out on many great opportunities because of how jaded I was due to bullying.

For me, high school sucked but everything got SO much better in college. They give you the freedom to organize your own life. Some of my teachers were really funny and I even had days with no classes!

Also NO BULLIES!

College was a vast improvement.

College is harder than high school, class wise. I took Chemistry in high school, and aced it. When I took Chemistry in college, I got about 3.0 on average between the 3 quarters I took.

If you are majoring in any of the sciences, it gets harder in college. I'm a physics major, and it is only going to get harder for me. One of my professors has been warning us once you get into upper division physics (junior and senior level), it's a step up from college.

. High school wise i enjoyed sort of, had a few classes that really changed my life in both regards. socializing. has changed i talk to alot more people than i ever did in high school but i still go home alone every night, watching movies, listening to music and reading. Pretty much one friend and my family, to the determent of my mental well being, are the only engagements i have people wise. t AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. the students I've shared classes with are no more mature than high school dingbat idiots i saw before i arrived, with off course the few exceptions i have encountered, a pity they are the exception rather than the general rule. In both settings, the lack of socializing has caused me to miss out alot, college though has helped improve me social skills because my world no longer consisted of the street between my parents house and the school. At college, going to different building across the city has done something, but i went to a local community college in the beginning so lived at home, virtually no social life, i don't know how for the life of me i didn't go insane, I took very few a giant auditorium GE course so i have meet fewer people. There are some buildings on campus I have never been in and never will because of that, which to me is interesting. There are perhaps 2-maybe 3 building on campus i have never been in and never will see inside. I never studied at the library or lived at the dorm so that pretty much made sure I would have no social life. I realized, my last semester as a senior, that alot of students study at the library so i guess that is how most of them develop their social lives either studying there or living in the dorms even for just a little while.
Right now I really hate college because im still dealing with people who don't do the work or put much effort and are not very intelligent to begin with. Classic typical scene in class is a dead awkward waiting for the crickets to come home and rigor mortis to take over and one thinks to himself: "really I have to sit through this lest i get a B+ instead of a A? consequently the lectures don't get very far and therefore all one has to do to get an A is read the book. So in my eyes both have been about the same, feeling intellectually fulfilled only a few times and very briefly.