Hi readers,
I know I have been talking a lot about research lately, but I wanted to switch gears a little bit. Currently, I am home in Seattle. My parents wanted to see me, so I took the quick flight up and came home for the weekend.
Anyways, as I sit here, my brother (a sophomore in high school) is doing homework, and it got me thinking about the differences of doing homework in high school and doing homework in college.
Let’s go back to high school…
After a long day at school (consecutive classes starting at 8:25 and ending at 2:50), I would pull out my planner and look at all I had to do. Physics test, math homework, english questions, Chinese essay. As I worked on my physics homework, I had my teacher’s powerpoint in front of me, using the equations. For Chinese, Google Translate was open, ready to be used. History reading took the shortest amount of time, and math homework only took about an hour.
Physics!
If I got done with my immediate homework, I would sometimes go look ahead, or I would just go to bed early.
Differences in college:
I find there are some differences between doing homework in high school and doing homework in college.
- In college, there are always people around- I like to do my homework in the library, but that usually means I am sitting with a friend at a table. While I enjoy being with friends, this also causes more distraction.
- More collaboration in college- on the flip side, because I am usually with people doing my homework, I can also use them as resources. If I get stuck on a math problem, I can find someone pretty easily to help me. In high school, I would usually wait until seconds before the homework is due so my friends could help me before class.
- In college, the time to do homework is less linear- In high school, I knew from the time I got home to the time I went to bed was the time I would do homework. However, in college, going to class isn’t in such a huge chunk of time. What I mean to say, is that I do my math homework in college in the hour that I have before my math class. I know I can do my english homework in the morning because I don’t start class until 12:10. My time to do homework is more broken up in college.
I can’t say which one I like better, but they are different. Comment below and tell me which one you prefer.