School plays a vital role in my life. I have spent more than fourteen years of my life at school so that I can have all the qualifications, credits, knowledge, and the degree to do anything and to be anywhere I want to be in life. Two out of the four levels of school, high school and college, are the most important. Sometimes I think that high school and college are the same, but if I break the aspects of both high school and college, there are a lot of differences between the two. Although high schools and colleges both function as essential houses of learning in our modern society, they vary in class structure, athletic programs, and student responsibilities.
             The first significant difference that I experience in high school and college are the classes. In my high school classes, it was always easy to get away with assignments and classwork. What I mean by "get away" is that even if I do not pay attention or miss a class, I can easily go to one of my classmates and get all the material that I missed that day. Most times, I could even go to my teacher, and they would let me know and give me all the classwork or assignments that I have missed. In college, if I miss a day, then I would have to play catch up and try to recover from the work and assignments that I missed. It is not easy getting away with missed classes and assignments. Even if I try to get away with missing classes in college, it will most definitely affect me in the long run. College classes are harder because attendance is part of my grade, and the more class I miss, the more my grade will drop. I cannot afford to miss class because I need to know everything that my teacher instructed that day because I do not have the same classes every day for five days a week as I did in high school. In college, I have either two or three days a week of class. Therefore, if I miss a day of class, it is very hard to catch up because one day of class in college is like a whole week o...