I’m going into my last year of college and I kinda felt like I did college wrong. Like, my grades are good but everything else about college I failed at. Like socially and stuff, after 4 years I barely know anybody. I commuted(to avoid debt, and did so successfully) so maybe that’s part of my problem.
But I feel college was supposed to be special time in your life and to me it has been indifferent. :/Thoughts?
Short answer: this is what the university marketing departments want you to think.
The long answer is that college life is different for each person, especially with respect to why they’re going to college and what they want to get out of it.
Personally, I think one of the reasons why people find going to college to be such a special time of their lives is that they are exposed to a larger cohort of people, many of whom may have very similar interests and hobbies.
Popularity in high school means SFA once you’re in such a large cohort that you don’t need to interact with people you don’t care about.
But while some people need their college to provide this environment for them, other people are perfectly happy to seek out the same things from other network they already have. Those people may not get the same level of benefit from being in college for their social lives as other people.
=sweet fuck all, for those playing at home.