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Originally Posted by bruza80
hey i'm 28 and live in Australia. i've spent my whole life obsessed with US schools and colleges. I'm finally at a stage in my life i could go to America but would i be just passed the fun and miss out on meeting friends and partying because of my age. i'm married and would be coming over just for the experience of seeing how people live in a culture that fascinates me. married or ot i still have fun and call shenanigans with the best of them so i was just wondering am i going to spend my holiday in a hotel room or am i likely to be called out for some fun times if i research the right pubs for a few late afternoon beers
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What about the "US schools and colleges" are you obsessed with? Where did you get your information? Where do you plan to go? What does your wife think about you flying across the world to party with a bunch of 18-year old strangers?
What makes people friends in college - or at work, church, or even volunteering at the local animal shelter - are the shared experiences. In college, people are living together in dorms, apartments or fraternity/sorority houses. They are going to class with the same people in their major, working together in campus activities and clubs. They are eating their meals with the same people, over and over. People spend hours and hours together every week/month/semester/year. It's rather insular in many circumstances.
I don't know what you are expecting to happen. Are you going to roam "college bars" and pubs looking for college coeds to drink with? I'm trying to envision you sitting in a hotel room, waiting for strangers you've never met to "call you out". Sure, you might meet people in a random night in a bar and hang out for a few hours, but nothing is going to give you, on holiday, the "American college experience". And honestly, if I was in college and some 28-year old guy visiting from another country suddenly wanted to "call shenanigans" with me, I'd run the other way.
I do encourage you to find places of interest - the mountains or beaches, museums, sports games, concerts, town fairs, the big cities, the cozy towns -wherever you plan to stay.
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