I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why so

I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why some students (including my wife) do not like it, and may never like it. The ingestion of facts is actually only a minor part of the college experience. Exploring concepts with your peers in organised and ad-hoc groups is a huge, huge part. Not to mention if you go to a name-brand college like Harvard the networking opportunities, and at every college, the social side and the experience of living away from home for the first time. It is absolutely not worth paying the tuition at Harvard to get what you could get on EdX or Coursera.