College Visit-Uncomfortable w/ Activities

JHS
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:17 +0000

Jolynne, when you are thinking about colleges and their culture, it’s probably also appropriate to think about the culture of young working adults who are NOT in college and not necessarily living with their parents. Or the military. In other words, the real alternative to college culture. I do not think it’s a whole lot more wholesome. (However, as mini has pointed out in the past, having to be at work in the morning does effectively limit one’s binge drinking and drugging on week nights at least. Cold comfort.) 18-year olds are pretty much going to walk through the valley of the shadow of something no matter where they are.

I apologize for being so testy and confrontational in this thread. It really interests me how different people read this story differently. I looked at it and thought, “Gee, that’s pretty great. Girls go on a road trip to an arty college, feel all grown up and edgy, but do absolutely nothing bad.” Yet lots of others were tsk-tsking with all their might. I know there is something of a culture war going on, and that there’s lots other posters and I might disagree on, but there’s lots that we agree on, too, and I never dreamed that the front line was fire-dancing clubs.