>As a European, US colleges/universities seem more like boarding schools. Here, no university would think that they have any business interfering with students'

>As a European, US colleges/universities seem more like boarding schools. Here, no university would think that they have any business interfering with students' personal lives or anything they do outside a lecture hall, because they are considered adults. Seconding this. It was quite a stark difference in university culture and expectations to me between US and NL.