Does college delay real world maturity?

[James]

Obviously this applies more to the "traditional" student.

But I was wondering if colege actually delays a kind of real world maturity and social sophistication.

If you graduate high school and go straight to a normal four year college it will have meant you went froma very sheltered experience to another sheltered experience. Its almost like being insitutionalized . . . add graduate school and it might be 4 more years until your life takes off into the real world.

The people around you are artifically limited both by age and to a certain degree experiences.

I have noticed on Greekchat that a lot of people speak in terms of "shoulds" as if life has these concrete rules that have to be obeyed. As if things are black and white.


And then I notice some of the people that have been around just shaking their head to it. I have go to run or I would post some examples . . .