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[quote=Anonymous]It's a pretty broad spectrum between being disappointed in the culture of a dream school and failing out of it...so it's hard to know which to respond to.

But I'll bite. I went to my "dream school", which my parents also really fought against. I had a terrible childhood in many ways, and I wanted to be in as different as an environment as possible. By Thanksgiving, though, I realized that there were some things about the culture where I grew up that I really missed...and for the first time in my life I didn't get straight A's. Guess what, though? I also remembered the reasons I picked the school, and I guess growing up as I had I was excellent at finding the bright spots wherever I was. By the end of the school year, I loved my experience. By the time I graduated, I was selected class speaker for my major.

I never had the expectation that college would be everything, even though for me it was a very real escape from a not very good home life. I thought I'd get an education, meet new people, and live in a place other than I had my entire life. That's what I expected, and that's what I got. Anyone who expects a lot more than that is bound to be disappointed.[/quote]

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