"The Full College Experience" -- Overrated? Rediculous?

[Axion004]

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college isn’t job training, it’s an experience in itself. you have the rest of your life to pay the electric bill and work in a cubicle, but you’re only going to be young once and you should enjoy it.

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<p>If you work hard in College you might not have to be that person sitting in the cubicle wondering why they are in the cubicle and the other guy is in the office. Maybe, Maybe Not.</p>

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it’s entirely possible to have fun and still be responsible. I live off campus in an apartment, pay my own rent, have a part time job, get good grades and still go out at night and have fun. and most people I meet also have jobs, do well, and have fun.

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<p>Okay. But what if people don’t consider going out at night as fun? Going to the party/club/bar doesn’t appeal to me and it probably never will. Rather read/do homework, design, and do Math.</p>

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Go to community college instead and see what you think of the college experience then, when you’re living the life of a high schooler with your parents while everyone else is getting to be independent and practice real life skills they didn’t have access to at home-- even if they are screwing it up in the beginning, eventually most people hit a roadblock and realize they’re screwing up. Learning to deal with someone else, learning to ACCEPT someone else, and learning to be courteous so that person can accept you are all things you can get from dorm life. Learning to find your limits and be responsible without parental intervention is something to be gained from the college experience. Learning to do things by yourself without anyone to help you is something to be gained-- so many parents just step in right away and you never have that chance to figure it out yourself, and the advantage to being in college is that in many situations there is no harm done for a mistake or two, when in the real world you can instantly lose your job or your home. And most importantly to me, being able to be part of an environment where everyone is living and learning and achieving great things is part of the college experience. I am in an environment where I don’t have to care about anything but personal growth and education, which I think is a great environment to grow and learn in. If that’s important to you and you aren’t getting that, perhaps you picked the wrong school or the wrong group of people in the school to be around. I know in my dorm I am surrounded by freshmen who do nothing but party, but the rest of the school isn’t like that. I have to branch out a bit more to find my peers.

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<p>The only real advantage of living with mommy and daddy is that you don’t have to pay rent. Other than that; it is living like a 16 year old.</p>

<p>What many people don’t understand is just how lucky they are to be able to live in the dorms. I read that slightly under 30% of the general population in American can even afford to go to College. And with the current recession; a lot of students will inevitably be living at home for at least part of the process.</p>

<p>I’d wager that a 20-year old living with mommy working 30 hours per week and majoring in Engineering is more responsible than a 19-year old living in a dorm majoring in English/History/Psychology/TheEasiestCirriculumPossible and wasting their parent’s money and taxpayer’s money for a so called education. I’d argue this point to death.</p>