From: Maximiliano James
Date: October 18, 2011 10:38:09
To: President of High School
Subject: My personal experience from high school to university.

Dear Director,
First of all, I would like to thank you for requesting information on my personal experience in order to prepare your future high school graduates. After starting at the university, most students realize that they are not prepared in an optimal way. However, the faster they adapt to the university rhythm, the better they can evolve in the future.
For most of my colleagues and myself, the transition from high school to university was not easy. The university world with its routines was a different one than the high school world I used to live in for years. Our habitudes had to change radically in order to adapt to the new world. The methods of teaching were new, the professors behaved differently, the assignments were done in a different way and the exams’ difficulty level was incomparable to high school tests. Since my start at the university, I faced the experience of not understanding properly my assigned tasks and familiarize myself with the professors’ style. I figured out very soon that the university professors were teaching us in a much more professional way than my high school professors. At the university I was treated like an adult, while in high school, my professors treated me like a teenager. I can almost say that within only a few months, I changed from a teenager to an adult person.
Generally speaking, the problems that I was facing need to be solved by everyone who leaves high school and starts studying at the university. Undergraduate students clearly feel the notable difference between the high school world and the new university environment. Another point is that many students are not sure yet about their choice of the academic field. The high school certainly should