First Impressions of University

My overall first impressions of university have been good.

Having lived in Colchester all of my life there wasn't a lot of culture shock or anything of that sort when I first started coming here because, well, things haven't really changed for me all that much in that respect. Living off campus, at home, also helped reduce any sort of "shock" that I might've gotten coming to university.

It was a slight shock in losing everyone that I knew before, only a single person that I knew from college comes here, the rest have all moved away to other areas of the country to go to other universities.

Was there a shock coming to university in respect to the way that the education works? Sure.

Being used to the way that school or college works and moving to university there are some differences, one being the timetable.

At School or College it's very restriced, you go in every day at 8:30 and leave at 3 irrespective of whether you have a lessons throughout the day or not.

In complete contrast; at university it's completely diffrent, it's much more of a free learning experence, you're not expected to come in if you've got no lessons, you're trusted to use that free time effectively, which is nice. It doesn't feel like you're being babied at all here, unlike what School or even College felt like.