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[quote=Anonymous]I think many kids get to college expecting it to be amazing and then can't figure out why they are so unhappy. Students work very hard in high school to get to these "perfect" colleges. I think what they find is a lot of stress to keep up and then the extreme opposite when students let loose and spend all their social time getting drunk. I went to a private east coast college 20 years ago. I was a low income student. I thought college would be amazing. It was not. I had never seen so many drunk people, girls with eating disorders, students doing drugs, students hooking up and then pretending the next day they didn't know each other. The work hard, play hard mentality has been going on a long time. There is no real sense of self worth at your on pace or real meaningful relationships being formed. It is a social environment run by teenagers/young adults that have immature brain formation. I was reading one of the online guides about my college a few years ago. A student was saying that many freshmen tried to pretend they were happy and figure out how to survive the party hard/hookup culture. Unless you are like the Wolf of Wall Street, I think that work hard/play hard environment sucks for girls. But teenagers look around and see everyone with a smile plastered to their face and think what is wrong with me. Parents on this board saying if only you let your kids start drinking early so they can handle it are just contributing to the problem. [/quote]

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