A thirteen year old is going to be commuting.
I commuted when I went to college and I heard all kinds of stories about what went on in dorm life, (not during class time mind you) and I certainly believe them. But commuters are very removed from that.
As a commuter, you don’t have to get involved with anything you don’t want to and I’d lay money on the fact that this girl is not going to be spending her evenings in the dorms drinking, smoking pot and having casual sex.
As a commuter, you don’t have to get involved with anything you don’t want to and I’d lay money on the fact that this girl is not going to be spending her evenings in the dorms drinking, smoking pot and having casual sex.
I went to both a commuter college (in a bigger city) and "on-campus" (in a college town) -- and there is a big difference in the overall living atmosphere, but -- that's not to say that things don't go on right in the middle of the day, and in the dorms, along with the multitude of adjacent apartments that are going to be surrounding the university.
And also, it's not like high school where you are occupied from the beginning of classes to the end of the school day. In college, you may end up with two courses, only for that day, separated by three hours, and ample time to either study together or have rap sessions or goof around. And there will be plenty of that during those down times.
And you're not going to go back and forth from home to campus and back again for a gap of only (let's say), anywhere from one hour to three hours. In fact, sometimes you might have a 9 AM class and then a 3 PM class... and you're going to stay on campus during that time (or ... in someone's apartment or dorm during that time ... :-) ...).
In high school there is much more supervision, while at the university level -- it's pretty much "anything goes" and the professors figure they are not "babysitters" and whatever the students do, it's totally up to them.