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Comparing English courses in high school and college

Anybody feel that taking English in high school felt like a strict and regular schedule?
And the assignments felt 'right in your face' oppressive?

Back then, the teacher had to tell you to do this and do that. The how part was essentially up to you. The teacher almost always would decide what the topic would be for essays and I think I had a writer's block all the time. And I actually went to that class 5 times per week and for 4 years...

Being at a university feels different.

Sure, I know I still have to be committed to attending class and fulfill my obligation of doing coursework, but at the same time, everything feels generally relaxed. This semester, I took English for 2 days per week and 3 days per week last semester during the fall.

For a guy who's just gotten out of high school, I at first felt decentralizing relief, but of course that relief is replaced by responsibility of knowing I have to attend class and still to get work done in the greater span of my free time.

I wonder what would happen if high school could be restructered similarly like college in that we are given relative freedom to choose when we can have class if possible and also choose the number of courses we want.

But for public school officails, I think that's revisionary crap.

During the 90s, I believe high schools in Massachusetts (or at least Lowell where I'm from) there was a study hour and either 5-6 courses per day. Now study hour is gone and is replaced by a total of 7 courses. Each day. Ouch!

Final thoughts

The theme of the class (technology) was at first glance a sort of "been there done that" type of topic in my point of view. After having various class discussions and presentations about the advancement of technology I have come to consider it a topic worth deliberating for a semester. It is so wide a topic that so many interesting sub topics were brought up, such as the dehumanization of war, genetically modified plants, and our future in genetics. This class was very interesting, and I enjoyed listening to people go back and forth with Mara playing the devils advocate half the time. It was kind of funny at times =]

Last thoughts..........

Class was pretty interesting because we got to hear people's ideas. And just to know that we were all in the same boat by learning and finding research from an interesting idea that was later turned to a message for everyone, was pretty exciting. I really had fun this semester and I hoped I did better for my presentation. But I did try and that's what counts. Thanks you all for being very suppotive...............

Presentations

I just wanted to post a "you're all awesome" post. I have really been enjoying all the presentations in class. There has been a lot of really interesting topics, and I have learned new things. I actually like that there was multiple presentations on the same subject, because they provide different points of view, and you get the whole story, so to speak. So far all the presentations have been really good, so I just wanted to say that you are all awesome.