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FWIW, I had that college experience, and it was fun, but definitely not worth the cost of admission. On the other hand, junior/senior year at college was fantas
by IggleSniggle 5y ago
FWIW, I had that college experience, and it was fun, but definitely not worth the cost of admission. On the other hand, junior/senior year at college was fantastic and really formative. So imho you got the best of both worlds.
- secondaryacct 5y agoI think this college experience is really a PR thing. It's what you pay the most for and it is more entertainment than anything else. Most countries' universities seem to work like the community college: it's near your high school, you go there and just study, the dorms for people from other cities are just cheap flat in the surrounding area, and you try to make your campus as small and focused on study as possible. At least that's how it was in France, and my memories or universities are full of technical discoveries, amazing teachers and passionate friends. Not lifestyle changes, but intellectual ones. The drinking games and parties, they stated at 16 and felt not very different at uni, just normal part of youth.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoYes, from the US side, I agree entirely. I think it relates to our Puritanical heritage. Parties / drinking are illicit, and most Americans live with their parents and kept in a sort of forced continued adolescence / stunted adulthood, until they “go off to school,” where they suddenly are free to do whatever they like. And so there is an explosion of exploration, and only some of it is intellectual.