“skipped more lectures and recitations than I can hope to count, joined no clubs, and actively rejected making conversation with peers.”
Making life tougher than it needs to be- and burning some bridges. I don’t find these choices to be the college’s fault, nor about peers.
This is an odd take on the old “X and Y college are beneath me” excuse, but applied to an Ivy. Kinda arrogant. Maybe homesickness or what. But it starts with the patterns he did establish.
I’m not unsympathetic to initial adjustment issues. But he’s reporting on a full year, is a soph.