The journey from high school to college will be challenging as far as time management and personal responsibilities. In high school, scheduled school days are structured based upon the portion of time during the day that stays the same every day. In college, the individual must make a drastic change to a more unpredictable and flexible schedule. Time management will be challenging for students because one will have to decide what time the courses will be taken and how those courses will align with other responsibilities. Personal responsibility is a wake up for call for college students. In college, the individual is responsible for what happens in their lives. One is responsible to make sure they are up for their 8am class because no one is there to wake them up to be sure that they are on time. It is the students’ responsibility to make sure that their assignments are complete and are turned in on time because the professor may not remind one of these things. In one’s younger years, it is easy to put the blame on others to make themselves feel better about their own fault. Both failures and success should be appointed to the person individually. Making the transition from high school to college will be the most challenging experience of many students’ lives. The transition from high school to college will build one’s character. School overall, both high school and college, help discover, refine, and test students’ character. Values and ethical systems of students individually are already set before college, but college experience accentuates a student’s values development course. An individual attends high school with students they have basically known all of their lives from elementary up to high school. The difference between high school and college is in college one is surrounded with new people of difference races and ethical backgrounds. With that being a factor in character building, one learns to understand and gains knowledge about people from other races and backgrounds. Frequency with which students are exposed to diversity in the classroom, community service or working on community projects that are related to a certain course, conversations with other students who have different social and political views and volunteerism contributes to character development. Opportunities to interact across racial, religious, and socioeconomic lines are important to the development of character. Many dimensions of character are refined through different experiences that take place over an extended period of time. These experiences challenge students into developing new ways of thinking, approaching issues, and contribute to them working effectively with others. In high school, students usually end a busy day by going home to a peaceful household, and spend time alone or with their families. However, in college, “alone time” is very rare. It is difficult to transition to college where one is surrounded by people all the time. Spending so much time with other people can be a very difficult thing when one transitions from high school to a college campus. Students spend all their time with peers from going to class together, studying together, eating together to even sharing a common bathroom. Disagreements are unavoidable when one spends a substantial much time with the same people. One must learn to maintain control when the tension is high. Patience is the key to successfully living in close quarters with other people. It allows one to deal with others whether they are friends or strangers. It helps one to work through hard times with understanding and compassion. The ability to live and work with others is important, and college helps in developing the necessary skills and virtues to make it possible. Patience is a vital virtue in helping an individual transition from high school to their college years. The journey from high school to college is the reward itself, and not the destination. Reaching the destination is not as important as the things one learns along the way. The journey is not often easy, and it may be a great struggle but at the same time it is a reward that is always positive. One must overcome challenging obstacles to be rewarded. College is a major step from high school for students who are used relying on others. It enhances the individual’s character and helps them become a better person than they were in high school. That step from high school to college can be challenging for freshman students, it builds the individual’s character, and tests one’s patience.