Gossip in college- different from high school?

AUGirl
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:33:59 +0000

I’m probably in the minority, but I encountered WAY more drama in my first year of college than I did in all of high school. My high school friends (mostly girls) were pretty much all drama free. My college friends (a mix of guys and girls) had lots and lots of drama.

Gossip wise, I guess my high school was bad because there were only 120 students in the entire high school, so stuff went around really fast. But I’m not in a sorority or involved in any super social scenes and there’s still a lot of gossip that goes around. It’s just mainly in my friend group though or in my major department. (My major only has about 80 students). It’s probably about the same as it was in high school.

The main difference that I’ve seen is that people care less about the gossip going around about them, so I guess it’s less hurtful.

But that’s just my perspective.