@MYOS1634 Don’t you feel that whether @wormholes lives at home or at school, she will innately grow and mature her lifestyle and habits? I remember living in the dorms freshman year of college was like living with a bunch of immature monkeys. NOT the case commuting from home…
Sure, living on a quiet/substance free floor helps. But dealing with the experience freshman year is better than having to deal with it for the first time when you take your first job.
Your growth is just different when you live at home and when you build your own ‘home’ on campus. Now, if @wormholes must live at home in order to attend ucsd that’s one thing but if s/he’s got a choice living on campus at least the first year helps in making friends, building a community, getting involved, and thus growing. It also helps a lot academically because you’re on-campus for study groups, office hours, tutoring, late hours at the library. You can succeed living at home, especially if you can stay on campus till late, but it takes more work. Not to mention the fatigue of driving back and forth in South California, just having to commute every day when your friends will be 10mn on foot from dorm to class, or when you have to drive at midnight and they just go crash in their dorm.
If you have to do it, it’s one thing, but if you have a choice being part of a residential college will make a difference.
I’m not convinced. On the one hand, it is important to experience moving out of home. I agree @wormholes should experience that before going to med school (likely away from home). On the other hand, what stops her from moving out junior or senior year, after having established an academic track record of success vs making making the move freshman year, dealing with a bunch of immature idiots, and adjusting to college classes all at the same time?
In theory, it sounds nice, but in practice the moment students leave home is freshman year, rarely junior year.
A flawed practice. Why follow the masses that are average by definition? Time to think it differently