Reply to Big state schools - lot of fun, great networks, but do you really learn there?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Big state schools - lot of fun, great networks, but do you really learn there?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]He didn't go to the big U expecting to hang out just with HS friends.[/quote]

What are you babbling about? At a Big U, you are NOT going to hang out with your HS friends, even if some of them are actually there. The campus is so big and the freshman classes so big that you will only see them from time to time by chance, and you will be forced to make new friends.[/quote]

Way to take that quote out of context. I said he did not expect to hang out with just HS friends but that is what ended up happening. They set up things to encourage meeting more people -- different roommates and lived in different LLCs. But still because he found it really hard to make new friends, it was easy to fall back on the safety net of the HS group rather than be forced to make new friends. Obviously at a huge school you don't have to see HS friends if you don't want to. And if he really wanted a new friend group he could have persisted. But he likes his friends and is very happy at college so it's fine. He certainly has a lot of acquaintances from different classes and those will naturally grow as he takes more major classes. While meeting new people is something to aim for in college there is also virtue in lifelong friendship bonds. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics