All sort of economic theories are on offer, and because you're not obligated to work or have the public buy what you're selling you don't learn their effects. All sorts of sexual ideas and opportunities are on offer, but you're not likely to learn about the side effects for at least a few years--by which time you're gone and naive new students have taken your place. All sorts of social theories are on offer, and they seem good to you and your friends, but you really don't know that many different kinds of people yet. By the time you start to get past your college parochialism and meet them, you're gone.
Yes, I know people who worked their way through college, and first generation-ers, and so on. The "college experience" is pitched at the group I describe.
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Even in the 70s, a friend from straitened circumstances described being in college as the "Golden Ghetto." Food without cooking, art and culture without effort, multiple entertainments, friends only yards away..."and pretty maids all in a row," he always ended. Money not much needed.
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