Is this college as in UK sixth form (16-18 year olds) or college as in university level (18+, degrees etc.)?

Being able to experience first hand in a lab what we covered in class the previous week. Learning about it from a book alone would just be boring. Oh, plus we got to guillotine a frog's head off. That was pretty cool.

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I was just thinking the same thing

im at UK college

best things are: My course is great, really interesting and im doing well; my coursemates, all are cool and we have a great time on the course; im living away from home so no mum nagging me constantly, lol

the people I'v met, seriosly so many new freinds

my program is the best in the world and I cant wait to hit the real world with what Iv learned

That is a good one.  Thankfully my girlfriend is in a doctorate program so i don't have to do without.

My favorite part was not needing to get a "real job".

As much as i enjoyed college... the stuff it taught... was largely stuff i either learned on my own, or could have learned on my own.

Well now we know how you got into your doctorate program... and here I thought it was through you being smart and working hard....

but no it was you taking the option to do "work in bed in the morning."

Haha, I do have to admit I only did it two or three times in the last year of my degree at all. But the first two years there were plenty of times that I had lectures after mid-day and so I worked in bed. I have fond memories of that. And in reality it's surprising how much work you can get done in bed .

I suppose all students have lie ins at points, it's one of the perks in the early years. I just used mine vaguely constructively. It was usually on mornings I gave myself off too, because it was during light periods of workflow.

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But no, hard work does help, I work extremely hard... I can't say I'm particularly smart; In fact, to be honest, I'm actually a complete idiot. But I work my ass off and I have to get everything perfect before I submit any reports and projects, etc... I also work smart, well structured work results in high grades. I've always been confused how many people I know don't organise and structure their work, I couldn't do it; But then again those people often do badly.

Since when has college been free?

Working for a scholarship to an Ivy League (hopefully). And get insanely hard classes. But independence seems nice.

Don't even know what I want to be when I grows up.

 Interesting.  I worked in a different way.  The first thing I did in every class was breakdown the teacher.

What they like, don't like what kind of writing style would best work in that class etc.

It really helped when it came to where you needed to apply extra effort.

For some it was in making the papers and essays perfectly constructed, with others it was doing outside research, one guy it was remembering  the stuff he taught but didn't expect people to remember because it was off the cuff inspiration.

My favorites though were the ones impressed by technology.  Not so much around anymore... but man when computer classes were a new thing in schools...

One time I got an A on a biography of George Washington largely because instead of an oral presentation I made a little biographical "best hits" of his life using a videogame that i recorded with my VCR.  Of course... that was like the 7th grade.  God bless the NES.