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[quote=Anonymous]I chose not to do the honors residency program because the residence hall was at the far fringes of campus and I was worried about feeling too far from everything else on campus or (direct quote) "being sequestered with all the other nerds." I wound up struggling to make friends and I think I would have had more in common with the other nerds.

But I also think I am blaming my social struggles in college on this one choice when in reality it was a bunch of things, probably the biggest one being that I was coming from a super dysfunctional family and started college with a metric ton of rage I wouldn't acknowledge for like another 10 years, crippling insecurity, and few healthy coping strategies for the normal stresses of every day life. I still managed to do very well in college and get into a top law school (the only tool I had for dealing with my insecurity was extreme overachievement) and I do sometimes wonder what I might have been able to do, or the life I might have been able to have if I hadn't been dealing with all that garbage. The truth is that the thing about the honors residency was minor in the grand scheme of things, more of a symptom than a cause of anything.[/quote]

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