To What Extent Does University Education and Student Life Differ from School?

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Every period of person’s life differs greatly from the previous one. There are a lot of reasons for those changes in our life. Every day we grow up, we get some experience, day by day we make mistakes and make some conclusions, we develop physically and mentally. So, logically, every day of our life is different (or at least has to be). Studying plays a great role in our life. First we go to the kindergarten, where we are surrounded by small children and where we are taught some basic skills of reading and writing. Then we go to school where we have to study a lot of different subject and after 10 years of studying at school we have to make a decision and to chose our future vocation, to understand whom we want to become. After passing some exams successfully, we have to enter the university, where we continue to study and to receive a proper education, linked to our future profession. As you can see, studying also requires many years of hard work. What concerns the difference between the university education, student life and school education…frankly speaking I don’t even know where to start from. Well, first of all I should admit that being a student means being almost an adult, a person who is conscious and aware of what is she or he doing, who is more responsible for her thought, decisions and actions. But when you are a pupil, you are also a teenager and your thoughts and attitude to the world is different. Maybe that’s because you think different during these two periods of your life. When at school, you still have some time to think about your future. But when at university, you already have to create your future. It was much easier to miss a lesson at school. Why? You could just say you didn’t want to go or you were ill and that would be enough (at least that’s the right explanation for you). But you cannot do smth like this at university.

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