"Difference No. 1
The teachers won’t spoon-feed you like how your school teachers did. On the first day of class, you’ll only be given the course outline and the reading list. After that, you’re supposed to find all the books in the list by yourself at the library. It’s just up to YOU, the students, to take the initiative to study hard!
Difference No. 2
Your timetable MAY not be up to your expectation. Unlike school, your classes will be scattered throughout the day.
Difference No. 3
You’ve got to be more independent in university. No mother to cook you home-cooked meals every day. But if you live near home, then lucky you. If not, you’re stuck with the canteen food or outside food.
Difference No. 4
At school, you’ll meet your classmates every day and then get to know them easily, right? At uni, you won’t get to know all your course mates in the first semester. That’s because there are so many of them and you won’t meet them every day. It depends on the courses all of you are taking. Maybe you’ll meet some people more often than others. So, basically, you’re meeting new people almost every day until you won’t be able to recall their names.
Difference No. 5
In uni, you’re in charge of your own life! Nobody, and I mean NOBODY will boss you around or nag at you. Nobody seems to force you to go to your room and study, etc.
If you don’t study, you won’t be able to cope up and then you won’t know how to answer during exams too. If you go online too much, you won’t have time to study. It’s easy to get lost in cyber world because there are free Wi-Fi spots all over campus. But do make sure you spend your time wisely. Don’t get too caught up blogging or chatting on MSN because then, you’d have wasted time that you should have spent on studying.
But the most important thing is, you’ll experience new things. You’ll learn a lot from your courses, your activities, your friends and your teachers. You will learn to stand on your own two feet. University really prepares you for life."
By a foreign student