@“aunt bea” many “underprepared” young adults sure are prepared to drink at an illegal age, but cannot do laundry? If they got admitted to a UC school, don’t you think they should already be good at “disciplining themselves to study” and “managing their time effectively”? Unsure whether or not “bathe” was meant to be on that list. I can agree that kids can get homesick and miss home, but there are times when kids need to grow up and fend for themselves, no one stays a kid forever (by “kid” I mean young adults).
Yes, my feelings are different from the university’s and their views. But that was more of a suggestion rather than a request. It isn’t that I want to live with 17-18 year olds (really, 2 years is a big difference? I can’t agree on this).
By “micromanaged”, I see it as there are rules to which one should respect and IF you are partying in your suite and disturbing the peace of those around you, it is obvious that you should not do that.
TL;DR Kids mature at a different pace from personal individual values and their environment. I’m still 18, but I realize that there are things that must be done, like getting a job, prepare my own food, doing my own laundry, realizing when play time is play time, and study time is study time, and later in life I plan to work with a bachelors degree or masters, and take care of my parents and send them money every now and so and heck, maybe have my own family and live with them if an opportunity for a big house allows.