If you're like most folks in the West, attending university is the first time in your life you're finally out on your own. Put differently, it's the first time you've got near-total freedom, and don't have Mom and Dad looking over your shoulder, telling you to behave, and acting shocked when you want to do the same things now that they wanted to do when they were your age.
Which is wickedly cool... and often incredibly disorienting.
College shakes people's worlds up. It's where the artificial statuses and divisions of high school fall away -- especially if you're in a bigger school -- and where people get subjected to a far more diverse criteria for judgment than they did in high school. Often, that kid who was the coolest kid in school in 12th grade ends up being just another face in the crowd in college -- and that guy who was a complete geek in high school ends up find a degree of acceptance in university he didn't know existed for folks like him.
No matter who you were before, you're probably going to find college jarring.
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