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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was out of control fresh year and I wish someone would have notified my parents. I shouldn't have been allowed to go back in January but my parents didn't know about any of the trouble from the fall. Drugs and liquor handles found in our room (after multiple warnings), an MIP ticket, meetings with the dean, barely attending classes. My grades were awful but I just BS'd my folks about adjustment period and promised I'd do better. I didn't do better. Winter semester I was blacking out so much, ended up being sexually assaulted by an upperclassman. I basically quit attending classes and failed all but one course that semester.

In retrospect a large college wasn't for me. But also, if I knew my parents would be notified of infractions and interactions, I wouldn't have indulged so much. Kids absolutely go extra crazy because they know their parents are 100% in the dark.[/quote]

If my parents had been called and tried to drag me home I would have refused to go.  I would have gotten a job in my college town and shared a crappy apartment with other young people.  I would not have gone back home because I loved where I was and I was having a blast.

Should I have gone home? Well, I guess it would have been the responsible thing to do.  But, looking back, as much as I screwed up, I really apparently needed to learn things the hard way.  Some kids do.

Thankfully my life has turned out really well in spite of my wild and crazy college career.[/quote]

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