College Is More Demanding Than High School In college the student is responsible for their own education and sometimes that responsibility can be very challenging and a daily struggle. The days of mom getting you where your suppose to be when your suppose to be there are gone. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the kitchen table have been replaced by the long lines of the cafeteria. Clean clothes, clean sheets and clean bathrooms that were taken for granted and done so lovingly by mom is now just one more thing on your list that needs to be done. Teachers are now called Instructors and they don’t seem to care if you get your assignments turned in on time. They hand out a syllabus on the first day of class and they don’t remind you when they are due. They didn’t understand that you study a whole hour for the test, thirty minutes longer than you have ever studied for any test and you got a C. There are sometimes more than one assignment due for the same class and a ton of required reading. They don’t understand that students usually take more than one class and shouldn’t require so much work in one week. There are so many other things that need to be done. There is so much class work to be done that it’s hard to fit in time to take part in the social activities that are available. There are all kinds of academic clubs for almost every subject. There are several sporting events every weekend played by both men and women all over campus. Then there is the 24/7 activities of the Greeks. The parties, pledge lines, balls, and interest groups take up a lot of time and it’s hard to get to all the events for all the different sorority and fraternities. Collage requires a balancing act between work and play. You can’t do it all so prioritizing what has to be done first and what you want to do second. Keeping your grades up will keep you in