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[quote=Anonymous]Guess I'm another oddball who loved my college years. I went to a low-income high school with unmotivated kids. When I arrived at my HYSP college, it was heaven to be around smart people who were funny and fun. People got my jokes and thought my curiosity and ambition was normal. I didn't have much spending money, but I mainly spent time with other kids there on scholarship and the ones with money would gladly drive us to get tacos or Chinese food. We didn't have any real responsibilities other than showing up to class or for our work study job. You could meet someone and just keep talking and hanging out for hours on end. When everybody in your little world is living together under these circumstances, you form friendships that aren't really possibly in normal life situations. I was also very active in campus activities like student government, social justice advocacy, cultural performance, and journalism. Those are definitely things that don't exist in the real world for people at that stage of life. Over 30 years later, my closest friends are the people I met during college. They live all over the country but we still do vacations together every few years.

I sure hope that the students at my school aren't focused on summer internships. Back then, it wasn't a big deal. I worked in the summer mainly to explore things I was interested in, like social science research. The challenge was to find someone with a pot of grant money to pay me for those efforts since I needed to make enough to cover my family's financial contribution out of those earnings. I worked hard in my classes, but because I wanted to. I didn't feel pressured that way that some people here did. Maybe that is because at a top elite school, you know you'll be fine when it comes to finding a job or getting into a good grad school.

My only regret from those years was not realizing how gorgeous and skinny I was. Oh, and at no other point in life have there been so many available smart and attractive young men all in one place.

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