MY FIRST TIME PART2(University life)

When i was in high school i used to be very anxious to get to university.I always pictured university to be like paradise,a place where everything runs smoothly.In movies for instance,they always show university students enjoying themselves,partying,clubbing,doing all sorts of nice things.Watching all this movies you'd probably think university is all about having fun,almost the same as high school life but just wait..!Experience it yourself and you'll see that movies are full of lies.University life is way different from that of high school.Back in my country Botswana high school life was much more relaxed.For instance,you could be given an assignment and have a whole week,sometimes even two weeks before submission yet you'll only start working on it a day before submission.Sometimes you'd just not do it and then give some silly excuses and get beaten then everything was back to normal, after all it didn't affect your final mark.Here in university everything you do affects your final mark.You fail one assignment and you're going to have to work extra hard to cover up for that assignment otherwise it's going to cost you at the end of the day.What's even worse is that nobody follows you around here and tells you to submit anything.the lecturer just gives you the submission date and whether you submit or not it's up to you.They'll just deduct marks for every extra day it takes for you to submit.One other bad thing about assignments is that if you keep on postponing doing them they end up increasing and thus becoming a big burden on you so the smart thing to do is to always start your assignments in time to make room for others.Another thing that differentiates university life from that of high school is that back in high school we were used to being spoon feed.We were taught,given notes and sometimes even past test papers to revise with,i mean,having all that, how could you possibly fail.Here in university it's a different story.Lecturers just come in and give you probably twenty percent of the information.How you get the remaining 80 percent it's up to you.The internet is your teacher here at university.You have to do a lot of internet researching in order to pass here.University is totally not for lazy people.Everybody lives their own life here so if you're used to being spoon fed or followed around with your work,this is definately not the place for you if you're not willing to adjust to the new way of life.