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Originally Posted by AchtungBaby80
Of course college delays "real world maturity." That's what's so great about it! Who wants to be a hardened, jaded, world-weary person by their 21st birthday? Not me! I look at myself and the kids I graduated with who didn't go to school and got married at 18, and I'm thinking, "Whoa...glad I didn't go down that road"...because now those people have multiple kids, way too much responsibility, and they've never experienced anything except their hometown. College is a good thing!
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I agree with his completely!! I grew up in a small, rural area. The night I graduated high school I saw a guy propose to his sweetheart. While I was personaly appauled, most of my class thought it was cute. Where are those two now? Divorced and both have been remarried 2 more times. So 13 years out of high school they both have multiple children and multiple failed marriages. For the kids who didn't leave our town and go to college, that story is fairly typical of what their life was like. I'm tickled pink that college delayed the onset of those types of adult issues!!!!
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