CU Boulder: Kick ass and Kicks assI was a really good student in high school and thought that CU was below my level. WAS I WRONG. To this day i am getting my butt kicked in the business school- most every class is a million times harder then i imagined. Not to mention, there are many many temptations. Make sure you are confident that you can balance school and partying. Freshman year was the wildest of my four.