<p>I liked my undergraduate college, but I don’t feel that it shaped me in any particular way. I had the same sense of identity coming out as I had going in. I just knew more. But I was a first-generation student who viewed education as pretty much utilitarian; I didn’t expect my life to be changed, and so it wasn’t. I hope my kids’ experience in college is much different, and I’m sure it will be, because they were raised differently than I was. I guess I agree with the tired saying, “College is what you make of it.” If you want it to shape you, it will, because you’ll be open to life-changing experiences. If not, you won’t, and it won’t.</p>