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After my abortive attempt about a year ago to get hooked up with a Cessna 172 to fly, I am now in the process of checking out in another one. I flew one with an instructor the other day. I didn't get signed off, but I should be able to in the next lesson.
That isn't me flying, by the way, this is me on the ground taking a photo of the same 172 taking off.
Interestingly, this particular airplane has a feature that I've never seen in a small aircraft. I think every other one has had a battery master that was a toggle (in the case of older airplanes) or else a rocker switch. This one has a plunger that you pull:
One thing I didn't do in my training flight was turn on nav lights (like "parking" lights in a car) or the collision beacon. I'll have to work on remembering that.
As I mentioned in my earlier flight, the elevator trim becomes far more important in the 172, because it has much greater elevator forces:
At the bottom of that same photo is another big difference from the 150. The C-172 fuel selection can select either of the main fuel tanks, or both, wheras the 150 is just on/off.