University vs High School

>>34691179
>Are all the classes in the university this big?
Your general classes would be that big. 100 levels to keep you well rounded. Your classes where professors grade your answers and more sophisticated material will be in 30 person classes.

>How can you all stay in classes that big without having a anxiety/panic attack?
Stay near the back and to the side. You'll talk to maybe 3 people during a semester

>How you all socialize with the classmates?
If you WANTED to socialize, you talk to somebody your age or dressed in bright colors/freshman gear. They're all thinking about meeting a wide cast of people. There's a mutual nervous excitement about what new people have to say/how they think because of the new environment.

>Just how?
Not everybody does. If you show up, keep a planner and read the book, you should be able to find a niche that captures you.

>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?
You don't always. That's why the supplementary material is so much more important. You study or you sink.

>>34691322
thanks for the reply it really helped me understand

>>34691322
this guy is pretty on point anon. another thing to point out is that if you're living in a dorm, the first week or so is gonna make or break your social life. i know it's gonna be hard to try and make friends with all these new people, but freshmen will be starving for any form of social validation and will make social groups fast. just try your best to not sperg out and join a circle and get used to the people there. good luck

I switched from on-campus to online.

Best decision I ever made, so much more flexibility to sleep in, go to the gym, do assessments in my own time. Can email lecturers questions anytime. Can do all my assessments early and hand them all in online and NEET around for the rest of the semester.

No energy expended being stress/anxious to be in class, no energy expended in having to have something different to wear so I don't look like a bum wearing the same shit all the time.

You will fail hard with on-campus learning if you actually have social issues, it eats into your ability to concentrate on the actual work.

You still have to do group-assessments though.....they're done using Skype. It's all the same classes, but just online. Check to see if your university offers it.

>>34691420
>the first week or so is gonna make or break your social life.

>Became close friends with my apartment neighbors during my sophomore year
>Fall down the rabbit hole end of junior year and into senior year
>Join a karate club during/after that

I would disagree. There are 100 ways during the first semester and your final one to get involved that go beyond the small groups of friends who live next to each other. If I had to do it over again, I would run to the university's teet and get involved with on-campus life. I'd consider being a "floor manager" for the dorm life or trying to climb the ladder trying to become the one who sends out campus wide emails. Even if you don't want to get into your school's student government, there are 300 clubs like the League of Legends, Super Smash Bros. or debate, chess, DnD, circus club or what have you.

My experience and on-campus life are both also different than if you choose to pursue Greek life, some kind of amateur band or something related to your major.

>>34691398
For sure. Just don't become that kid who fucking died.

>>34691179
>Are all the classes in the university this big?
>How can you all stay in classes that big without having a anxiety/panic attack?
>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?

When you're knocking out your early general education core credits you'll probably wind up in a few auditorium classes. Biggest class I was in had about 150 people.

They do those for the really basic classes everyone has to take, the 100/1000 level English and History classes and stuff like that.

Once you burn through the early classes, which I admit are basically high school 2.0, you actually get to REAL university.

I'm a junior in a fairly niche field and I'm taking a 400/4000 level class right now that has a whopping six people in it. We're all on a first name basis with each other.

First year classes are often that big before everybody diverges into their respective major streams/electives. My third year math classes have about 30 students attending lectures, and I think 60 enrolled total per unit. Lectures are actually a lot like sitting in a cinema as there's rarely interaction either between students or between student and lecturer (this varies of course, some lecturers like audience involvement). If you can watch a film in a full cinema, you can sit through a lecture.

I don't socialise with my classmates. If we do talk, I keep it on our coursework.

Some other tips: don't brag about your scores in high school. This immediately marks you as new, and you'll soon find all those bragfags getting absolutely raped by their first year coursework because route learning will no longer cut it. Once you reach uni, high school no longer matters. Seriously, only the newest and most desperate for attention will care any more.

Don't buy a textbook unless you actually want the book for its own sake, or it is genuinely needed for the course. And never buy from your university bookstore - go for amazon, old editions, borrow from library or pirate. There's a huge racket for uni textbooks and chances are your professors are in on it.

Stay away from the political clubs and organisations on campus, they bring nothing but trouble.

If you want friends, there are social groups for this specific purpose. They usually label themselves as something like the [insert faculty] Student Society, but really they just go out drinking and party. Very little work being done.

>>34691179
Protip: don't fucking go unless you're studying STEM or medicine. Anything else is a debt trap. Modern universities are basically just leftist hives and glorified pyramid schemes now. Even if you're studying something STEM related, you have to be in the top-tier nowadays to get ahead because all the mid-tier and entry-level work is taken up by Indians and the Chinese, and I doubt you are in the top-tier, no offense meant. In the long run you're better off either attempting trade school or just getting on NEETbux.

>>34691796
>NEETbux
>Better off than anyone

Aren't they the guys always threatening to kill themselves because they hate women?

>>34691613
you're very much on point. i guess i was trying too hard to emphasize how important it can be to find good people in the beginning.

don't fall for the jewniversity meme. go to a community college part time while working some dead end job. DO NOT FALL FOR THE JEWNI MEME, it's a huge waste of money and filled with normals to the brim.

>>34691930
Thanks!

I agree, socializing should be a priority. Make no mistakes: you go to college to learn and to make opportunities for your future success. You are not a robot and, over the course of 4 years, you will begin to behave strangely and perhaps risk your health by not trying to go out and meet people. In fact, you will miss out on networking if you do not meet people while you are there.

You should make a big effort to socialize during that first week like anon said. I think a lot of that energy is better served by getting involved instead of playing dorm politics.

>>34691179
>Are all the classes in the university this big?
lower division lectures are sometimes that big, but your discussion section is the size of a normal high school class

>How can you all stay in classes that big without having a anxiety/panic attack?
it's literally not a problem anon
it's like a performance
you sit there and watch the lecture, that's all

>How you all socialize with the classmates?
discussion and other things like that
I don't

>Just how?
if you are a robot you will not make any friends, just telling you that now
there's your answer

>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?
lecture is not a problem anon, sitting in this room with others is just like sitting in a movie theater with a bunch of other strangers, you just watch the front

>>34691833
I guess so. But there's plenty of people here who work and still want to kill themselves. I say, either trade school or NEETbux+self-learning skills is the way to go.

OP here I want to thanks you all for helping me.
I'll go to the biggest college of my city(Temple University) in august.

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>>34691420
>the first week or so is gonna make or break your social life

Just fucking kill me. I haven't had a real friend since middle school.

I legitimacy cannot connect with anyone in a meaningful way. I can't take four more years of this shit.

>>34691179
>>34691322
>Your general classes would be that big
That depends how specialized they are. When it's a component of lots of different degrees, you can get hundreds of people in the lectures. But if the class only features in one or two degrees, it could be as small as 20.

For engineering degrees, classes are usually biggest in the first year, as there is a lot of stuff that all engineers need to know. Then they get progressively smaller.

>>34691179
If you go to some giant Jew rip off college then maybe. My personal experience has pretty small classes.

>>34692308
To be honest, though, pretty much every engineering class I've taken through senior year has had 100 or so people in it. Lab classes are smaller, and my two electives ranged from 3-15 people, but every required course has been pretty big.

>>34691179
>How can you all stay in classes that big without having a anxiety/panic attack?
By not noticing or giving a fuck about anyone but myself, and the subject being taught?
>How you all socialize with the classmates?
You don't. You are not there to make friends, you are there to learn and get a job. This meme needs to stop.
>Just how?
kys
>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?
Selective something-or-the-other, Are you really that attentive to the other walking sacks of flesh around you that they overwhelm your senses?
>I almost payed attetion to the lesson with 20 people in the high school classes
>payed attetion
And you got accepted into a university?

>>34691747
>Once you reach uni, high school no longer matters.

This is one of the biggest things I try to explain to teenagers.

Beyond your GPA and ACT/SAT scores, nothing you did in high school is going to matter more than six months after you graduated. And those two factors only matter for getting admitted, afterwards they become pointless as well.

Your professors couldn't give less of a shit about the three years you spent in chess club. Employers don't give a fuck that you were valedictorian at your small suburban school with a graduating class of 70.

It just doesn't matter. You're in an entirely new stage of life. Everything you did prior to age 18 was to get into college, and once you're in it's like overwriting the old game with a new save.

>>34691179
Thats only freshmen/sophomore classes. Everyone has to take english and calculus. Fluid dynamics will have about 20 people in it

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>University scares the shit of me.

But why

>Sit in back
>Study
>Take notes
>Ace shit

t. getting a Masters

>Are all the classes in the university this big?
Yes but only occasionally that full. Usually you have space between others
>How can you all stay in classes that big without having a anxiety/panic attack?
Because it's comfy as fuck. You just sit in the back and are invisible. No one gives a shit about you. Like learning alone. It's actually amazing for robots.

I was scared of these lecture halls too but I got used to them so quickly that by the end of the semester I now abhorred regular (20-30 people) classes.

If you want to just go to class and be invisible, it's great.
>How you all socialize with the classmates?
I got literally lucky and made friends by chance. I honestly don't know how.

>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?
Perfectly fine because I'm alone. Much more alone than in 20-30 people classes.

>I almost payed attetion to the lesson with 20 people in the high school classes
It's better. Trust me.

>>34691179
The classes are all that big and everyone farts and poops in their pants. The longer you sit there not farting and pooping in your pants, the more people will stare at you and eventually get out of their seats and start surrounding you and chanting CLEAN PANTS DO A DANCE CLEAN PANTS DO A DANCE and they won't stop until you do a little dance, and then they'll laugh and mock your dance for the rest of the class while they take turns putting their shitty underwear over your head. Best chance to avoid this is to walk to the front of the room and announce to the class "Look everyone, I pooped in my pants!" and then pull your pants and underwear completely off and eat the poop and then say "Eww, yup! That's poop all right!" so they don't think it's chocolate and you're just trying to fool them.

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>>34693223
>But why
I failed high school and I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to handle the classes.

I feel like going to university would be a potentially great experience, but if I'm shit right off the bat, then oh well.

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>>34691179
I don't know if you are American or European but this comes from my experience as an American college student

>Are all the classes in the university this big?
No, I go to a small state school and the only classes with lecture halls like your picture are very early general classes
>How can you all stay in classes that big without having an anxiety/panic attack?
I don't get anxiety from being around people but people irritate me generally so if you stay towards the back and the corners you won't have to deal with them as much for your first year and a half or so
>How do you all socialize with classmates?
I went into accounting which attracts a certain kind of utilitarian mind. Therefore people either seemed to already have a group of friends they know already or have no interest in socializing at school. The same goes for your early classes as people are there just to listen to the lecture and go home.
>How can you all pay attention to the teacher with classes full of all those strangers?
In the early classes you can get away with recording the lectures if you are careful about it and re-listen to them later. Once you reach smaller classes you'll just have to try your best to focus on taking notes and not smell too bad

Good luck. I didn't really do anything at college at this year and to be quite honest its just more shit piled on an already demanding school and work schedule so I wouldn't really stress it