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by cSoze 4207 days ago
We're arguing exactly the design that you seem to be espousing. Taking into account cost, immaturity due to biological constraints at age 18-22 and rampant party culture, college is a particularily bad place to "find yourself". Young adults should be exposed to a wide diversity in age and demographics, not locked into a small area with a largely homogeneous group of individuals to "grow up". All of this was touched upon in the article. In my opinion, the American "college experience" is in dire need of reconsideration.
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chaostheory 4207 days ago
> rampant party culture

This greatly depends on the particular university. I really doubt there's much of a party at places like Cal Poly, Georgia Tech, or MIT when you compare them to FSU or a place like the University of Arizona.

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majormajor 4207 days ago
Can't speak for Cal Poly, but there's a lot of binge drinking at the other two on the list for sure. The parties might just be a little less fun, but just as drunk...
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chaostheory 4205 days ago
The parties at GT and MIT are more like really tame happy hours that resemble office events rather than actual parties. They don't even come close to what you get at FSU and Arizona State which is almost 24/7
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eli_gottlieb 4207 days ago
Ah. Ha. Ha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFbDZyHxL2g
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juliangregorian 4207 days ago
That's what you chose to demonstrate that MIT is a party school?
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eli_gottlieb 4207 days ago
Well there's that, and there's the fraternities. MIT, in my experience of having lived in Cambridge, is very much "work hard, play hard" for its undergrads.
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chaostheory 4205 days ago
Dude, GT also has a drinking song as it's official school song; yet there are no real parties on campus - you know regular events with tons and tons of debauchery. I think this is what you don't get if you've never experienced a real party school: there's mainly only playing hard and there's barely any work for a lot of your time there (or even all of it if you so choose). There are classes where all you have to do is show up and you'll pass...
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eli_gottlieb 4205 days ago
>I think this is what you don't get if you've never experienced a real party school: there's mainly only playing hard and there's barely any work for a lot of your time there (or even all of it if you so choose).

Funny thing: I did my undergrad at the famously party-focused UMass Amherst, and it wasn't like that at all.

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chaostheory 4205 days ago
Unfortunately this just serves to further illustrate my point
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