Freshman Patti and the tough test

Patti Sponaugle is a Torrance High School graduate writing about her freshman year at Kenyon College in Ohio. This week, she learns that college is a little tougher than high school.

I had always gotten by in high school with fairly minimal efforts - good grades just came naturally. Why would I assume college would be any different? What knowledge had I to contradict this thinking?

And then my first exam was returned to me.

Let's just say that I was more than a little surprised by the result of the Roman Art History test. It was mind-set-changing. Kind of like learning that the friendly and lovable Mickey Mouse that used to hug me ever-so-sweetly at Disneyland was really just a teenager in a mouse suit who was probably wishing he was home in bed instead of coddling hyperactive tykes and their overzealous parents in the heat.