<p>Although I do love the academics at my small LAC, i don't click with the social scene at all. it's very frustrating to me that people around me LOVE it so much, and I don't...or when i see my friends' facebook status saying they can't WAIT to go back to college. i don't love my college. it's ok. i love the academics, but my friends at home are waaaay better than my friends in college. </p>
<p>I don't want to miss out on the college experience. I want to be one of those alums who has nothing but good things to say about their collegiate years. Should I start thinking about transferring, or just give it more time? I just want to fall in love with my school, like others have, but my roommate keeps saying "it's just school." Isn't it supposed to be more than that?</p>
<p>I sure would hope for more than that, personally! I can’t speak from experience, though. I do have a question… Would you say you’re proud of your current school? For some reason, I feel like I’ll be disappointed if I don’t go to a school I truly feel proud of. (That means nothing about prestige, either, at least for me.)</p>
<p>I was proud when i first applied. I told everyone where i was going and where it was. it’s a good school…and i had expectations that the people there would be smart and focused but they’re not…i guess i am still proud of the academics/speakers on campus. </p>
<p>i think it’s definitely important to be proud of your school. it’s your home, the people around you are your family, in a sense…</p>
<p>Based on what the threads that you’ve made (in addition to this one) regarding your school: I attend a small LAC with a decently sized drug-culture. Naturally, being a straight-edge student, I don’t fit in with the majority of the people here. Everyone is incredibly friendly, but our ideas of fun are fundamentally different. However, I’m still quite happy where I am at, as most of my friends are from my dorm hall (substance free). Perhaps you should move into a different dorm hall with people that are more like-minded. I know that I probably could have typed the same message you typed, word-for-word, if I had not decided to live here.</p>
<p>And yeah I agree that it’s important to have that pride. I don’t want to look back on those four years of my life and wish I had gone somewhere else. Sure I’ll probably have experiences that are far more rewarding and having a sense of pride than college, but still. I wanna be like those people who still go to their college football games when they’re 50, who have plenty of swag and memorabilia because it reminds them of some great times. Not like those people who went in, got their degrees and that was the end of that.</p>
<p>If you’re a freshman, your experience may change second semester. Many of the heavy partiers will have either flunked out or will have had to straighten out their acts by then. They may still party, but not as rambunctiously and obnoxiously.</p>
<p>Younger S – a straight edge – was given this advice by a mentor freshman year at his LAC, and S found that advice was on target.</p>