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College gives kids thousands of other kids to hang out with, at a critical point in their lives when they are just entering into adulthood. College gives kids

College gives kids thousands of other kids to hang out with, at a critical point in their lives when they are just entering into adulthood. College gives kids a chance to create their own social identity, as seen through the eyes of their peers, rather than their parents. If you are a social recluse, and spend most of your college years hiding behind your computer screen, then yeah, you might as well not go. If you recognize that human beings are herd animals, and that in order to learn how to be a leader in the herd, you need to have a herd to practice on ... I learnt some really important life lessons in college, most of them outside of class. I heartily recommend it. Challenge your expectations of what you can and can't do. You may be surprised by how much more you can grow.

pchristensen 19y ago
True. It's easy for me to look back and say that college wasn't that useful, but that's because I have the maturity and experience that came from going to college and then leaving for the real world! You can bet for darn sure I'd get more out of college if I went back now.
yummyfajitas 19y ago
>I learnt some really important life lessons in college, most of them outside of class. What makes you think you would not have learned the same things (or equally valuable things) if you did not go to college, but did stop living with your parents?
- dusklight 19y ago
  As yters points out correctly, the real world is not like a college environment, where you are surrounded by other people your own age. There is something about being surrounded by other people just as clueless, inexperienced, and eager to experiment as you, that stimulates the creation of convention-defying ideas. That said I would like to think I did not need college to become an intelligent, aware, adult. But it sure did help and it sure was fun.
yters 19y ago
In my very limited experience the normal work world isn't a lot like college or public school, where all my peers were people my own age. I think learning to socialize with older people is much more useful.

pchristensen 19y ago

True. It's easy for me to look back and say that college wasn't that useful, but that's because I have the maturity and experience that came from going to college and then leaving for the real world! You can bet for darn sure I'd get more out of college if I went back now.

yummyfajitas 19y ago

>I learnt some really important life lessons in college, most of them outside of class. What makes you think you would not have learned the same things (or equally valuable things) if you did not go to college, but did stop living with your parents?

dusklight 19y ago
As yters points out correctly, the real world is not like a college environment, where you are surrounded by other people your own age. There is something about being surrounded by other people just as clueless, inexperienced, and eager to experiment as you, that stimulates the creation of convention-defying ideas. That said I would like to think I did not need college to become an intelligent, aware, adult. But it sure did help and it sure was fun.

yters 19y ago

In my very limited experience the normal work world isn't a lot like college or public school, where all my peers were people my own age. I think learning to socialize with older people is much more useful.