Frankly, the only thing I wish I would have realized beforehand is that you’re basically forming your young adult friend group with a bunch of people who ar

Frankly, the only thing I wish I would have realized beforehand is that you’re basically forming your young adult friend group with a bunch of people who are going to be spread out over the globe in ~5 years. For a lot of us, this is a problem with standard 4-year college as well. It's frustrating that it's so hard to colocate with college friends once your careers have taken you all in different directions (often with very little choice in the matter). I suspect that's responsible for a big chunk of social dysfunction in the USA today: so many people spend 4 years building a circle of friends, and it fractures irreparably 5 minutes after graduation.