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Originally Posted by doydie
I know this is a little off subject but this is also why I think it's important to live in a dorm in college instead of at home if it can be managed. I had to learn my down to the laundry room, manage studying vs social life, get along with some one I had never met, manage problems without my parents intervening. Of course this was back in the late 60's and it was female dorm only. Now dorms are coed, apartments are coed. Nothing is the same. I also think I learned differently than my fellow students that their parents payed for everything. I had to earn my way through school and it meant something different to me.
Sorry for hijacking your thread
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You're definitely not hijacking the thread!
I agree with you as well. I know a girl who's lived at home the entire time she's done post-secondary education. At age 34, she sleeps in Mom's bed every night, has no social life, and is in constant depression (and severely obese, where she once was quite in shape and tiny, healthy). One may argue there's a LOT more going on 'behind the scenes' there, and no doubt... but isolating herself to the confines of Mom and family and never forming any bonds/socializing.. not a good thing at all!
PS: I lived in an all female dorm at University. 1996-1997 (then I moved off campus with friends). I did go to a University that prides itself on tradition though, so no surprise that while most are co-ed on campus, there's still the female/male dorms for those who prefer. I had picked co-ed and was put in an all female lol!