They require effort and sacrifice and there can be bumps along the way regardless of what university you attend, or in what course you enrol. One bump can be transition handling the change from Year 12 at school to first year study at university. The transition from school to university is only one of the many life transitions that people make. For a number of students this transition is generally a smooth and comfortable one but for others their first semester or first year at university is a time when they can be unhappy, disillusioned, lonely and worried. All students will experience some problems but these will be to vastly different degrees and in all sorts of areas.
Students undergo a number of lifestyle changes.
Many leave home and also have to manage the demands of university study, part-time work and their social life. They will form new friendships and experience a range of new freedoms. We would expect that the majority should perform as well at university as they did at school but in many cases this does not happen especially in their first year of study. There are two significant reasons for this. There is a loss of a learning network.