College life in the US

I have been at Appalachian State for almost two months, a sufficient period of time to live a lot of experiences related to college.

It’s different from what I was used to back in Chile, and this is what most stands out to me:

Dorms

I talked about dorms in a previous post, but I think that living on campus is such a great advantage! Specially because you don’t spend to much time in transportation.

In Chile, it takes me an hour to get to my campus.

The assignments

This one is definitely not my favorite… there are so many assignments for every class. I don’t know if I just am in classes where the professors give a big amount of things to do or if it’s like this with every course.

The classes

In Chile, we have at least four or five hours of each course that we take, so we have workshops in face to face classes where we can start--and sometimes complete-- an assignment.

Sometimes it can be weeks where you just have to show up and not do any homework outside or inside the classroom. Even though, for that reason professors are very demanding, and they can ask you to read five books, three articles, and view eight powerpoint presentations for an oral test--I speak from my experience--.

I guess that, instead of more classes, in the US you have more assignments.

A seven days week

Since most of the students live on campus, the library, dinings and other buildings must be open seven days a week.

Back home, the faculty (professors) only work from Monday through Friday, but that’s it. And forget about getting a book in the library at 10 p.m. It will be closed.

The campus

I love that there’s a single campus with almost all the professors in it. I'm going to show you where my university is on the map.

In conclusion, I think that both college system have its benefits and disadvantages. For what I know, I wish I could stay here longer than a semester, but with less assignments.