Is college more relaxing?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if you've heard from your college-age DCs if college life is calmer and moves at a slower pace than the average crazy DMV lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

lollllll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if you've heard from your college-age DCs if college life is calmer and moves at a slower pace than the average crazy DMV lifestyle.

Completely depends on the college. My oldest wanted to get far away from the crazy competitiveness of Arlington and is thrilled to be around normal people in his mid west college. No. 2 is at UVA and it's pretty much the same as here.

[Anonymous]

- depends on the college
- depends on GPA (big difference between a B student and an A student)
- depends on the major

[Anonymous]

Omg. What a joke. My DD reminisces about how easy her big three HS was and how little she was expected to learn. Her brain is currently being expanded far too rapidly for her to comprehend it all. There's her part time mentoring job, her research with a post doc, her internship, her kickass classes in way upper level math and science, and her boyfriend. You should see how excited she gets over the Galaxy simulation she did or how she found that coding error on the project that being released to the public next week or how thrilled she is over getting to take another class with that crazy professor everyone wants. Then there's that damn laundry piled high, the jelly that she's been eating that she didn't know had to be refrigerated, the tank of gas with water in it that made her brand new car stall midway back from a conference two states away. Best time of her life but not without stress. The only thing that helps is that she doesn't pay for any of it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, college was much easier than ncs - in went to a top five liberal arts college

You have more time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, college was much easier than ncs - in went to a top five liberal arts college

You have more time

Perhaps time would have been better spent in English Comp 101.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg. What a joke. My DD reminisces about how easy her big three HS was and how little she was expected to learn. Her brain is currently being expanded far too rapidly for her to comprehend it all. There's her part time mentoring job, her research with a post doc, her internship, her kickass classes in way upper level math and science, and her boyfriend. You should see how excited she gets over the Galaxy simulation she did or how she found that coding error on the project that being released to the public next week or how thrilled she is over getting to take another class with that crazy professor everyone wants. Then there's that damn laundry piled high, the jelly that she's been eating that she didn't know had to be refrigerated, the tank of gas with water in it that made her brand new car stall midway back from a conference two states away. Best time of her life but not without stress. The only thing that helps is that she doesn't pay for any of it.

I think this confirms that the answer is "it varies." I went to an extremely competitive high school and college seemed like an absolute breeze in comparison.

[Anonymous]

More relaxing in that you don't have to deal with DC traffic!