Online education is a fine, but for many part of the joy of being in college is being there, around new kinds of people talking about new kinds of things in their own way.
I would not trade my college-days experiences and the connecting friendships for any online course anywhere.
Part of being away at college is learning to become a self sufficient adult, who does not immediately crumble when things go wrong. No one knows how they’ll react to life’s challenges until they have been tested in some fashion.
I agree with you, the memories I have of my young college days are priceless. The saddest thing is how unlovely and sordid colleges have become these days. If I had teenagers now, I would have great misgivings about sending them to one of these places for fear they would lose their souls.
How old are you and how much did it cost to go to college then.
For me, tuition started at $169/quarter as a freshman and was up to $209/quarter as a senior in 1975. Room and board was about $1,000 to $1,300/year.
At today’s prices to go away for school, you can buy a very nice house in many parts of the country.
eyeroll... You have not been paying attention as to what is going on at our Universities...
“Part of being away at college is learning to become a self sufficient adult”
Your college days may have been wonderful but - you have no idea what college is like now.
If you went to college twenty years ago you would be shocked if you had to go back and experience it now. You wouldn’t recognize it.
>>Online education is a fine, but for many part of the joy of being in college is being there, around new kinds of people talking about new kinds of things in their own way.
I couldn’t stand the years I went to college on and off while working. It was a horrible and depressing place full of liberal idiot students and teachers. I hated it so much that I couldn’t even manage to finish and instead just concentrated on work in IT.
“No one knows how they’ll react to life’s challenges until they have been tested in some fashion.”
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Going away to college is hardly the only way to get “tested”.
As soon as you leave home you get tested,whether it’s a college dorm or an apartment with roomates and a full time job.
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I went to a “good school” and did get a Master’s degree.
I had to read vociferously outside of school to get the education that I wanted, that I couldn’t get in school.
And this was 25 years ago...