Reasons Why Freshmen Find It Difficult To Comply With Class Expectations

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Reasons why Freshmen find it difficult to comply with Class Expectations
Freshmen students do formulate various expectations about both class and college life even before they leave their homes. Being young adults, they look forward to starting a new life with a lot of eagerness of experiencing a kind of freedom they never had before. Some of them who were initially enthusiastic end up discovering that the experience they get few months after joining college falls short of their expectations when they do not certain requirements especially in classes. Others find it difficult to leave home thus dreading the idea of going to college. Regardless of the expectations, almost all students encounter various challenges that they did not anticipate for after joining college. However, even those who encounter positive experience do undergo stress situations. The challenges that freshmen encounter during their transitional phase to college are some of the reasons why they do not comply with class expectations.
Joining college after high school is a great achievement for most students and it is an exciting rite of passage. However, despite making it to college, some students get anxious. Every year, more than two-thirds of high school students enter institutions of higher education, a third of them do not return for sophomore year, some transfer to another college, others drop out because they do not comply with certain class expectations. The bottom line, college can turn young adults’ life upside down.
The first challenge the teenagers encounter is adjusting to college academics. Unlike high school education, college academics do not emphasize on memorization and tend to require the students to analyze, research and solve various problems in the practical world. To the delight of freshmen students, they realize that their instructors do not assign homework tasks, or take class attendance list. Despite tutors not giving out pop questions, there is more reading, writing papers and fewer tests in college. This shift for freshmen proves to be challenging and most of them fail to adjust their study habits making it difficult for them to comply with class expectations. However, as they try to adjust to the classroom expectations, college tends to be a major social and emotional transition for most of the first year students especially for those who it is their first time to leave away from their homes for the first time. To some of them, it is their first time to do most things such as doing laundry and waking up on their own. Additionally, it will be their first time to share a room. Even those who commute face various adjustments since they meet a new body of students and different set of norms and expectations than what they were used to during their high school life. The tough transition the freshmen undergo contributes to their failure of complying with class expectati...