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I think it’s both true that most people do a lot of growing up at university and that it can make the experience worse if you are younger than everyone. From a
by dan-robertson 5y ago
I think it’s both true that most people do a lot of growing up at university and that it can make the experience worse if you are younger than everyone.
From a U.K. perspective one issue is that many student things generally assume everyone will be over 18 and therefore able to enter places that serve alcohol and only admit people over that age. Even if you don’t want to drink you may still be barred from participating. But this might not be such a big deal in the U.S.
If you’re only interested in your studies and you excel at them then maybe things don’t matter so much but I think for most people, university is mot so much about learning the subject you are reading as it is about being socialised into the middle class, and this is harder to do if you come in with one hand tied behind your back.
- erosenbe0 5y agoCollege in the US is usually about getting a piece of paper in order to be a nurse or teacher or accountant or social worker or civil servant. At many schools,, people show up for class and go home. Nobody cares what age you are and it is a service.
- kjeetgill 5y agoI think this is a fairly cynical, narrow take. There are a lot of schools and a lot of people in them doing more than a handfull of degrees.
- sgillen 5y agoI think the college experience in the US varies pretty widely depending on what sort of college you are at what you are studying, and your own attitude. An average state school, a small liberal arts college, an MIT/caltech, business school at Yale or Harvard. These will all be vastly different experiences.