Is College Just High School All Over Again For You?

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So far, it's more similar than different. I still get good grades but don't socialize much, maybe even less.

I have been in college for three years (starting my 6th semester next week), and I'm already ready to get the heck out (course-overloaded and CLEPed my way through to make it a reality).

I have met a few people who are intelligent and mature, but most people where I go to college are immature and just plain boring. It's a decent school so there aren't too many full-on morons, but the general "college culture" definitely runs supreme.

People were sincerely surprised that my kind of a "good time on Friday" would be ordering Chinese food and watching movies with a couple other people, and that I hate parties. Oh well...

Here in Colombia there's no such thing as dorms and I live with my sister, so that part is taken care of nicely. Because of that, college is a way better time for me than high school, since a social life isn't forced upon you and there's not such a marked popularity system. People are there because they want to, at least in theory, and if I spend my time alone in the library or anywhere on campus, people don't think I'm a weirdo for that, tons of people do it. When I want to go out and party, I generally count on my sister and her friends, who are sort of my friends by association. It does present a different brand of challenges, though.

For me it's totally different. University is everything I wished school was. My only complaint is that I'm lonely - it's hard enough making friends when you see the person most of the day for years at a time, even harder if you see them only once a week for one term before you have to actually arrange things for meeting up with them.

But I've never stayed in dorms. Maybe it's more cliquey and such in the dorms.