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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree: Peer group.  To use your example: the students may read the same books, but the class discussions are likely to be very different.  One thing that stands out to me is the large number of students and professors who are genuinely excited about their work.  They do extra stuff — just because it’s fun.  There may also be lots of students deeply interested in multiple things.

When I was in college, I briefly chatted with a cute guy on the football team.  I later found out that he was not only the Captain of the team, he was a future Rhodes Scholar. Pre- Med students doing independent research and developing community based resources in their free time. English majors who are also writing operas. So the intellectual curiosity that the students are bringing to the discussions in and out of class is pretty heady.  [/quote]

Just to add: not all of the students that I knew were scholars or into their classes, but all of them had intense and often varied interests that brought incredible energy to the community.[/quote]

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