Contrast/comparative paragraph: My life in high school and my life in college

POINT-BY-POINT METHOD

Even though high school and university are both institutions of learning, they differ for me in at least three ways. The first difference between high school and university is their social atmospheres. In high school the building is usually smaller, and students are, for the most part, well acquainted with each other. In addition, students in high school have the same timetable everyday, thus helping them to know one another better. On the university, the building is bigger and people are constantly coming and going, therefore you rarely see the same person twice in a day, which accounts for fewer people being acquainted with each other. The second difference between high school and university is their policies about homework. In high school, homework is required because is supposed to help motivate students to study. Knowing they have to submit assignments in algebra or history gives students an incentive to keep up with these subjects. However, in university most homework consists of studying; very little of it is written and turned in, and that is because in college we are supposed to be more mature. If students do their homework, it is to their advantage; if they do not, the teachers will not force them to do it. The student is only wasting his own money if he neglects his course work. The third and last difference between high school and university is their attendance policies. In high school, students must attend class to get assignments and personal help in a certain area. Furthermore, high school students are less responsible; therefore, they need more guidance, which they can receive by going to class. In university, students may skip classes if they choose and ask their classmates to acquire missed assignments or tests (although I feel the same guilt when I don't go to class as when I went to high school). It is the student’s responsibility to make work up. In short, in spite of these differences between high school and university, they both serve me the same purpose: their function is to prepare me for the real world.