Does college have a better environment than high school? ?

Question

I've just graduated from high school this year and I'm going to start attending college after this summer is over.

Now that I'm done with high school, in retrospect I realize just how shallow and petty the high school environment was:

-Rumors (esp. fake and/or slanderous ones) usually spread like wildfire.

-The people whom you consider to be friends generally talk trash behind your back.

-People obsess over what kind of branded clothing/items you wear.

-Many of my fellow classmates (usually guys) are absolutely obnoxious. They also crack lame/racist/insulting jokes (backed up by obnoxious sarcasms), which I find tasteless but many of my peers find to be funny.

-any quiet person is immediately picked on and/or bullied. The chances of this happening are especially high if the person is quiet AND smart.

-everyone is obsessed about Facebook. You can't go 2 steps without hearing someone say "ZOMG DID U SEE HIS/HER FACEBOOK PROFILE?!" Knowing about your friends is good and all, but the conversations get annoying after a while.

One instance that especially sticks to my mind was the time when I wanted to have normal chit-chat with one of my good friends, when my friend suddenly started ranting about how angry he was that some random guy "snatched" the 1000th post from his (my friend's) gf's wall. I told him to calm down and that it doesn't matter, but my friend argued that the 1000th post is a "special case."

-all the pointless drama. 'Nuff said.

So after enduring 4 years of high school, I'm wondering whether or not college is more of the same.

Answer 1

It depends on where you go to college and who you associate yourself with.  I think there is an equal obsession with Facebook at the college level, but most people will become less obnoxious.  MOST.  Not all.  The college years seem to be the time when most young people are really figuring out who they are and who they want to be, although some won't really get to that point until after college.  

Another point to consider is that by the time you graduate from high school, you have known some of your classmates for 12 years and that might be part of the reason you find them obnoxious - they are just wearing on you.  Ideally, you'll not be in college for more than 4-5 years (excepting graduate programs) so you won't know the people you meet there as long as the people you see now in high school.

Also, I hate to crush your dreams, but some people will be absolutely obnoxious for their entire lives because that is just their nature.  

Answer 2

its all about da univ.

Answer 3

College means the end of adolescence, and most of the people in college are pretty much adults, meaning the environment is far, far more mature.  

Answer 4

I couldn't agree with you more on what i hate about high school. as for youre question, yes i think it does get better. everyone, and i mean everyone, of my teachers has told me that i would do better accademically and socially in colledge than i do in high school. I also notice that i get along much better with colledge students (the relponsible ones anyway) than i do with my peers. But ofcoarse it all depends on who is there, and of coarse how long they have been there. i would expect freshman year of colledge to be similar to one or two steps more mature than senior year of high school.

Answer 5

It will depend on who you choose to hang around. If you want to hang with those kinds of people then it will be the same and even more of it,  Facebook is still very popular but the quiet people just get ignored for the most part.  Who wants to be hang with someone who won't talk and have fun?  I saw less people getting bullied in college, because it can get legal really fast and you don't have to wait until they are of age to sue them and make their life h**l.  Also getting kicked out of school is more serious at the college level.  So if you want to be a nerd in college all the better, if you want to be popular you can do that too.  College is what you make of it, and who you choose to spend time with.  Good luck.  

Answer 6

It's better.

But all of these idiots are just running around unsupervised now, so you can imagine...

Nice thing is it's a lot easier to avoid people like that and I wouldn't say the college scene overall is like that. There's still stupid, annoying people around... but they pretty well stick to other stupid and annoying people. And college students still love facebook.

You're a lot freer to hang out with people you like and only people you want to be around.

Hopefully that's something to look forward to! :)

Answer 7

i hope its the same..im gonna miss high school

Answer 8

Oh Yeah, college is more exciting than HS life. You  will meet different kind of people who has different kind of goals in life... less drama but more on plans for the future.....When you show even the slightest interest in any college or university, they are great about putting their best foot forward. You will get their most impressive numbers and phone calls that seem to come daily. But, like any major decision you will make in life--and don't kid yourself, this is a major one--you'll approach it with a good amount of reserve. The same people who are asking for your money are trying to substantiate why you should give it to them. In that respect, every school you look at will be a little biased.

Answer 9

Expect a lot of the drama stuff to be in college also. However, you can hope that by soph or jr year many people have matured past high school years and you won't see a lot of this

In the beginning you might see a lot of the same things since EVERYONE is fresh out of high school...but expect major change as people realize that they have to start acting differently.

Answer 10

i have experienced only one of those situations at my college campus and that is the ZOMG Facebook one which isnt bad at all, people i feel are just a lot more chilled and focused on their education opposed to their social settings.

Answer 11

There will be cliques and drama wherever you go in life, even after college.  Some people mature, and some people don't.  However, I've found that the biggest difference between high school and college is that in college, people are responsible for their own lives (at least more so.)  People go to class because they want to - not because it's the law or because their parents make them.  Many people are also working.  As a result, they don't feel the need to relieve their boredom through stupid things like getting the 1000th post.

People are still in the middle of growing up in high school and college, so many people are still very immature especially in high school.

So to answer your question, yes, it gets much better.

Answer 12

you will not believe how much better college is.  there is no drama, nobody is cool, and you make lifelong friends. class sucks though. Also regarding the answer right above mine, yeah he dosen't know what he is talking about

Answer 13

I think the college environment is way different than high school. There is way less drama and that other stuff that you have listed in college. Quiet students certainly dont get picked on or singled out because he or she probably isnt the only one that is just sitting there quietly and taking notes. College students dont even talk about clothing brands for the most part (not even among friends)

There isnt this pointless drama in college (in general) and i think part of the reason is because college students have more important things to worry about (and they are more mature...)

Answer 14

College is for sure different. I love college I go to Texas A&M and a senior Chemical Engineering student. 34 thousand undergrads at A&M and everyone is really cool. You will find your group no matter what university you are attending. Be excited because its a way different experience than you've ever had

Answer 15

There will still be a little drama, and still be people who will talk about you behind your back. But for the most part, life in college is SOOOO much better than high school. I love the college life. The environment is calmer, and people don't really care what you wear.  

Answer 16

Yes

Answer 17

Yes, college is a better environment. It is a bigger world-- people are older and getting more mature...there are so many different types of people everyone can find their own niche. Facebook won't be all that important again until AFTER college when people are trying to reconnect.  

Answer 18

Completely different. College is very calm.  People in the classes are generally quiet and respectable. And no one really spreads too much gossip around because the campus is huge and people don't know everybody!

You will LOVE college after the high school experience.

Answer 19

well. regardless of where you are in life there will always be drama. it will always follow you. its up to you whether you let it affect your life and the choices you make. as long as my space and face book is going around there will always be talk about so and so's default picture, and top eight. its just the way the world as become. its sad.