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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys aren't getting it. It's the expectations you develop for yourself and what your life will be like that matters long after you graduate. Yes, you work hard, are challenged academically. But that's not all. You learn how people from more successful backgrounds think and act. How smarter and academically more accomplished people think and act. You change. 
--small town girl from MC high school[/quote]

I agree. Can you share how your educational experience changed your life beyond your sense of the possible?[/quote]

I didn't go back to my small town. I got a job in a field that had very few women, hired because of my school. I excelled. I made good money and put myself through grad school  with savings. Met spouse, who was a professor lol. Had social circle very different from people I grew up with. Life has been very different than HS classmates.[/quote]

Similar experience here but I went to a non-flagship state school on a full scholarship.

You sound like you’re still rather provincial, to be honest.[/quote]

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