I really enjoyed my high school years.

Most of the teachers I had weren't bad at all. In contrast college was boring as hell. Seriously the 'required' classes such as Comp 2 and the ilk... Well I had already learned all that as early as 9th and 10th grade. I was completely out of the league of what the professor was used to. Apparently most schools(even the private ones) in this area are crap. So many people at that college that were fresh from high school couldn't even do basic math or comp. I knew so many in the college that had to take a remedial math course!


Thankfully out of the required courses was much better. My poetry classes and some of my computer classes were a lot of fun. Since these courses were not needed the teachers taught in a very free-form fashion(the college forces the 'required' classes to be taught in a very specific way when I was going there. The Professors that I spoke with were livid about that!).

Probably my favorite professor was my Networking instructor. He taught both Microsoft(required) and Linux(not required). The Microsoft class was more or less a drag. He had to hit on very specific points and being required for a couple of majors we had some people who really should never have been in the class. And he had to slow down and try to bring them up or else he could risk getting into trouble. Meanwhile the Linux class. He warned anyone who took it(you needed one microsoft first) that it was hard as hell so don't take it unless you want a challenge. The class had a very freeform structure. If we were interested in furthering something he had just touched on. He would research and in the next class we would be taking an indepth course on say using Linux as a secure password authentication server. And this was in the Linux introduction class. Not the Linux security class. Good classmates + good professor = fun class!


Really this depends on the schools you go to. A bad college is a bad experience. A bad high school is a bad experience. The difference is since colleges are more likely to fall under if they get too bad, you are usually less likely to run into a horrible college.