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[quote=Anonymous]I'd say I was happy 50% of the time in college.  I had a decent group of friends, but I had two part-time jobs and I was focused on my future goals.  I never got to go on a spring break vacation (no money) and I paid for most things without help from my parents, they did take out some loans to help which I really appreciated, but I was limited in what I could afford to do outside of classes whereas most of my friends didn't worry about money.  I hated a couple of my required classes and I didn't have a fake ID so there were a number of nights I spent by myself because everyone else was at a bar.  Regardless, I feel like I was a bit of a late bloomer and my time after college was when I really started to come into my own and enjoy life.  I particularly enjoyed grad school because all of my classes were focused on the topics I was truly passionate about. When I was settled in my career, I took the time to do the things that I'd always wanted to do like travel. I look back on my time in college fondly for the most part but those four years were not the best years of my life by any stretch.

Please make sure your daughter understands that Facebook is fake, the point is to make your life look amazing even when it's not.  I also know that part of the let down in college for me was that everyone told me how amazing it would be comparatively to HS but the truth could have never matched up with the idealistic picture I had in my head.  [/quote]

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