25. In high school, you do homework. In college,
you study.

24. No food is allowed in the hall in high school.
In college, food must be provided at an event
before students will come.

23. In high school, you wear your backpack on one
shoulder; in college, on both.

22. In college, the professors can tell you the
answer without looking at the teacher's guide.

21. In college, there are no bells or tardy
slips.

20. In high school, you have to live with your
parents. In college, you get to live with your
friends. 

19. In college, you don't have to wait
in a certain lunch line to be cool.

18. Only nerds e-mailed in high school. (Cool kids
hadn't heard of it.)

17. In high school, you're told what classes to
take. In college, you get to choose; that is, as
long as the classes don't conflict and you have
the prerequisites and the classes aren't closed
and you've paid your tuition.

16. In high school, if you screw up you can
usually sweet-talk your way out of it. In college,
you're lucky to ever talk with the professor.

15. In high school, fire drills are planned by the
administration; in college, by the drunk frat boys
on their way home when the bars close.

14. In college, any test consists of a larger
percentage of your grade than your high school
final exams ever did.

13. In high school, when the teacher said, "Good
morning," you mumbled back. In college, when the
professor says, "Good morning," you write it
down.

12. In high school, freshman guys hit on senior
girls. In college, senior guys hit on freshman
girls.

11. In college, weekends start on Thursday.

10. In college, it's much more difficult to
figure out the course schedule of the man/woman
you have a crush on, in order to figure out where
he/she will be walking around campus and at what
time to find them there.

9. Once you've obtained the information described
in #10, it's much more time-consuming to run
between classes to that place where you know
he/she will be in order to "just happen to bump
into him/her."

8. In college, there's no one to tell you not to
eat pizza three meals a day.

7. In college, your dad doesn't pay for dates.

6. In high school, it never took 3 or 4 weeks to
get money from Mom and Dad.

5. College men are cuter than high school boys.

4. College women are legal.

3. In college, when you miss a class (or two or
three), you don't need a note from your parents
saying you were skip... uh, sick that day.

2. In high school, you can't go out to lunch
because it's not allowed. In college, you can't
go out to lunch because you can't afford it.

1. In college, you can blow off studying by
writing lists like this.