The Importance Of College Life

University, to me, is a totally different concept from high school, where teachers, expert in their specific field, would introduce you to the beauty of it. Yet, after my two-and-half-year college life, I gradually come to realize that although professors at college are good at teaching, the most important thing I have learned is to learn by oneself.
You may probably say that it sounds a little self-contradictory. In fact, it is. But, as for me, it is also the truth.
Here is the reason why I believe so.
Back in China, there is a world difference between college life and high school life, especially in terms of the way of studying. During senior high school years, despite the fact that our time table was full and fixed, the assignments and tests

Nevertheless, unlike the teaching-learning pattern in high school, college professors, from my perspective, allow students more “freedom” and “independency” in studying. I am not saying that they do not care students as high school teachers, but they do in different ways. Based on my understanding, college professors are more inclined to guide students to the entrance of a new world, and let you yourself explore and discover, instead of dragging you at all places without voluntary self-involvement.
That’s why it is widely believed that college courses are more a presentation, or an idea-sharing session based on what students have learned on their own, than cram all the knowledge into their minds during class

You know where to start with, how to find reliable data, and when to call it a day, because you have got a map in mind, to guide you, step by step, until go deep beneath the surface and dig up what you want to know. This map is gradually formed by the tracking of your thinking, day after day, and ultimately, becomes a acquired and fixed pattern to consider things.
In addition that it is presumed to be the requisite skills of a human being, learning independently also offered me a taste of the abstract philosophy—one can never rely on others too much, both physically, and psychologically. There is no doubt that people have plenty of close families and intimate friends out there, willingly and eagerly to help. But, still under certain circumstances, you have to count on yourself and deal with everything on your