I was told by my teachers "high school is the best time of your life"; if that is so, then teachers must be living their "best time", after all, they're still in high school ;)
Clearly from my experience as a college Freshman, people who think "high school" is the best time of your life never went to college. Here, I'm going to reveal to you the differences.
Academics
High school academics is a joke. Look at the limited number of courses you have, especially if you went to a non-private Ontario high school. In high school, I took almost every course there is to take, and still didn't learn much. Remember getting 98 and 99s on your report card? That's because your classmates are dumb (on average) and you are smarter...or your teacher likes you. Obviously you decide to go to college to have a better future, harder academic is expected.
Teachers
Unless you had a super tough, awesome, cool teacher, whatever you learned from him/her, you'll unlearn, and re-learn in college, except this time, you learn it the right way from Professors who really know what they're talking about. Ever had one of those dumb teachers who's not as smart as you? Doesn't happen in college (or very very very VERY rarely).
Homework
Ya gotta do them homeworks in high school yo! What-a-lie! I remember getting away with a 98 without doing much homework...and that when I was in Gr. 10! Then...Calculus II came, and blew everyone out of the cold water. Homework homework homework, not only you have to do them, sometimes you gotta do them twice. Remember the essay extension you had in English class? You're lucky if the Professor accepts your paper 2-hours after the deadline (you usually will get lucky). However, the machine is much colder, senseless. One time I submitted my Physics assignment 2 minutes late, I got a zero.
Projects/Labs
Bigger, funner, more dangerous than whatever you did in high school. You may now blow up stuff in chem labs. Your TA will laugh and high-five you instead of giving you the "OMG, you are a duchebag, report to the principal's office immediately" look... ya know what I'm talkin' a-boot.
Campus
High schools are just ugly compared to university, especially a pretty one like McGill, but Waterloo or U of G on the other hand..... Instead of having a bell to tell you when to go to classes, there's a silent alarm clock in college. Lectures end on a high-note; when you are on the edge of your seat to find out what the professor is going to say next, Professor dismisses the class, never will you EVER have to hold your binders and wait at the door for the bell to ring.
P.S. I love walking around on campus, I get to be outside and enjoy the brief outdoor. Bonus point if your campus is pretty. I remember walking in the high school hall ways; people walk WAYYYYYYY TOOOOOO SLOWWWWW. Whatever, that is not a problem anymore.
Friendship
Can you even make many real friends in high school? Probably a few real ones. It is after college, an only recently, I realized who my real friends were in high school. Most of the time high schoolers "hang-out" in a clique. You may not like everyone in your clique, but for social purposes, you gotta be there and pretend you like them. You have different dreams and passion, but still you hang out together because you're in the same group. In college, no one has to "fake" it. There are too many awesome people to hang around, if you dont like someone, exclude him/her out of your life. Because of the diversity and population, you'll find many people who you truly like to spend time with.
Parties
I laugh at those high school parties. Somehow, high schoolers find it "so cool!" to have a picture taken with a beer in hand. If you think high school parties are good....wait 'till college. And if you think college parties are good....wait 'till you go to a McGill Party - it makes college parties, and subsequently, high school parties look like your five year-old cousin's half-birthday party ;)
Nightlife
Nightlife doesn't exist in high school, and therefore will not be discussed here.
Relationship
Most of high school relationships, much like friendship, are for social purposes only. Real relationships take place in college (excluding long-distance, because that's just a 5D engagement). Unlike in high school, one has a lot more freedom to keep a healthy loving relationship.
Love
It is not so naive as it is in high school, but still with its dreams and "what if's". It makes us to crazy things, illogical, unexplainable. It gives us emotions and feelings that occupy much of the spaces in the mind and the heart - it wonders yonder, and grows fonder.
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