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High School
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Cegep
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University
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Your classes and teachers are assigned each year
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You get to fight, yell, argue, and spend six hours struggling through in-person registration, at which you get the last appointment time every semester
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CARL is your new best friend, or worst enemy, however you look at it
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Every assignment is argued for 45 minutes until the teacher agrees to revoke it
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Assignments are not argued, but done haphazardly in your fifteen-minute break between classes, or else in your boring classes
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Assignments are replaced by term group projects that take hundreds of hours, cause endless stress, make you contemplate suicide at least three times, and must be submitted bound and accompanied by - what else? - a PowerPoint presentation
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No eating in the hallways or classrooms or else you face the threat of detention (but no actual detention was ever given out as far as I can remember)
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Eating in hallways and classes is the only place to eat in school. Unless, of course, you're a caf person, in which case you own a cell-phone, and are playing a never-ending game of cards
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Eating? What’s eating?
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Every student and teacher in the place knows every other student and teacher by name. Your graduating class is smaller than the average football team.
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Small-school atmosphere where you can walk down the hall recognizing many faces and run into friends just about anywhere. But there are a lot of strangers too.
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You're lucky if you find three people you know in the average week. Meetings with friends must be arranged in advance.
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No independence, no respect for or from teachers, little work
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Lots of independence, plenty of respect for and from most teachers, little work
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Entirely independent, respect for and from the good teachers, tons of work
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