Which is why ours didn’t come home for Thanksgiving. 
“Having” to go visit one in Jordan while he was studying abroad was a nice perk for us. Definitely doesn’t suit everyone though considering we fielded a ton of questions asking us both why we would go and how in the world we could let our son go. It was awesome.
To each our own. My post meant there isn’t a wrong way unless one is trying to fit the round peg into the square hole. There are many colleges out there in many different places, any one of them is right for the correct student.