Very often we will cry for freedom, especially when we are in secondary school. We may think we are being monitored and programmed by teachers and parents, so we hope to become adults so as to get away from their control and to control others.
Many university graduates say that we have freedom when we study in university. As a fourth year undergraduate student, I can say that this is totally true. Everything is under your control. We choose our major and minors, we arrange our schedule, we hang out wherever and whenever we like.
I remember my first semester in university was such a honeymoon year. Our class always had teatime together and I had always watched TV in my dorm in the afternoon.
However, is having freedom always good? Well, I no longer think so if we are still not mentally mature. With the temptation of freedom, we tend to choose unsuitable things at unsuitable times. For example, I chose to have tea and watch TV instead of looking for references and reviewing what had been taught. And in an extreme situation, sometimes chose to skip classes to sleep for longer or to sing karaoke. This just shows how immature we are.
If we do not have self-discipline, sometimes too much freedom would be detrimental! Take studying in university as an example. Unlike in secondary school, you no longer have class teachers and class monitors. No one would remind you of tests, examinations and deadlines; no one would point out how badly you behave. Everything is just controlled by you.
As a result, some freshmen approach this 'shock' with excitement like a compressed balloon being released, they 'expand' to a point that they eventually 'explode'.
