@Ail
So you pretty much learn everything you need to know before college, to get into college and then college is kind of a joke right? A couple of my friends from Japan said a similar thing about colleges in Japan. Once they got into the college they pretty much just celebrate. High school was the hardest part of their education and the most pressure.
For me it was the opposite in the US. High school I didn't need to put much effort in to get A's or B's. But in college I worked hard and put a lot of time into what I was doing. It certainly helped that I loved what I was studying - film and video editing.
And I'll share a couple of movie collection stats: I currently own 127 DVDs (down from about 200 from trade ins). And I just hit 95 blu-rays this week. Unfortunately I never watch my DVDs anymore. Standard Def just looks too bad on my HDTV even with ps3 upscaling. So I am trying to limit my blu-ray buying buying because I know at some point we'll reach resolutions that will make blu-ray look blurry and I won't watch those! Well it will look blurry on future higher resolution monitors... of course it will still have awesome picture quality on a 1920x1080 HDTV.
