It's more than just classes - it's student life, it's the library, it's meeting friends, it's bad overpriced food, it's sneaking past proctors, it's doing stupid shit you'll never again get to do in your life.
That's it exactly. If you live home, you risk never growing beyond the person you are with your parents. You will have a very hard time experiencing the fun and the freedom of being 18 and on your own with a safety net. Your friends get to go back to the dorm after a bout of drinking and watch Letterman; you get to go home.
Doesn't matter if your college is two minutes or two thousand miles away from home. It's being away from home that starts to make you an adult.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2005-07-21 09:55 pm (UTC)That's it exactly. If you live home, you risk never growing beyond the person you are with your parents. You will have a very hard time experiencing the fun and the freedom of being 18 and on your own with a safety net. Your friends get to go back to the dorm after a bout of drinking and watch Letterman; you get to go home.
Doesn't matter if your college is two minutes or two thousand miles away from home. It's being away from home that starts to make you an adult.