2025-08-21 05:13:09Nick C:
kinda helped build a bridge between learning in hs and in college
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The best way to travel to NYC, aside from carpooling, is splitting an 8 person Amtrak ticket. Amtrak has group discounts available at amtrak.com/group-travel-discount, where you can get up to 60% off on a bulk order. With this, it's possible to get tickets for as low as around $35 round trip.
# Classes, Academics and Careers
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### The Key Difference Between Learning in College vs Learning in High School
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For many freshman, its a tough shift changing from a more laid back style of learning from a standard high school classroom to a lecture hall in college, and RPI is no exception. While going to your first few weeks of classes, its important to make the distinction that **in high school, there are _teachers_ who _teach_ students and in college there are _professors_ who _lecture_ students**.
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To go a little more in depth, the difference in the learning between teachers and professors is NOT that they (typically) have less education, but rather **what their educational background is**. When teachers went through college, they did learn a large part of what they were going to teach (sciences, ELA, history/social studies, mathematics, etc) but they also learned how to effectively and efficiently convey their knowledge to their students to help them get through high school and pass any necessary exams or standards. In college, the professors' educational background is almost always only in the subject that they are teaching or have their doctorate in (not always a PhD!), meaning that they only know the knowledge that they have to teach and a large background of information supporting it, but have little to no knowledge of how to effectively and efficiently convey that knowledge to their students.
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Not all professors are like this, and this does vary based on the subject matter, but this is the typical standard in change from learning material in high school and learning material in college or a university.
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It can therefore be said that when in college, its largely up to the student to effectively and efficiently teach themself by whatever means necessary and to ensure that they are learning the material at a normal (ish) pace (this is in my opinion, the person writing this little section, but might vary based on who you ask).