<p>True. The purpose was to refute your claim that I was setting up a false dichotomy between “quantifiable” and “not quantifiable.”</p>
<p>Philosophy is not at all quantifiable, whereas psychology – and biology – are more quantifiable. There’s a spectrum. Outlook on life is entirely non-quantifiable because the starting assumptions prohibit it.</p>
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<p>Prove the statement in bold and get back to me.</p>
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<p>No, for reasons mentioned above – the premise itself is NOT quantifiable, and this takes precedence over the resultant findings.</p>
<p>In other words, the entire premise of what constitutes a good life is not quantifiable, even though one may be able to quantify its implications.</p>
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<p>Your argument is fine. Your assumptions are not.</p>
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<p>You can’t – it’s not worth the PM, but feel free to try.</p>
<p>Cowman- Maybe you should go to a community college near home for a yr or two until you get accepted to the college of your choice. There is still no reason to call the college experience overrated because your problem is just being in the wrong place that doesn’t help you with your goal in life. </p>
<p>That being said, you shouldn’t be so scared of experiencing something new and don’t be afraid of going outside your little bubble of comfort. If you keep this attitude then i don’t see much success for you in the future. How will you cope with life if you are offered a great job away from your friends, or if they move away/change/get busy with their life and you will have to deal with all types of people and make connections and for that to happen you need to be able to give people and new things a chance.</p>
<p>alot of people say “it’s the best years of your life” but i don’t buy that.</p>
<p>what about having children, getting married? college was better than having a child? i think that whole “it’s the best…” is just something people say. maybe because u get opportunities that aren’t present later in life and you can be more carefree. but i dont think it’ll ever be the best of my life. at least i hope not</p>
I don’t think my assumptions are at all unreasonable. But I really don’t think this is worth arguing any more. I think most people understand what I’m trying to say, and that’s all that really matters here.</p>
<p>WantsBrown: As someone on this thread said before, nobody’s saying your college years will be the best years of your life until you die. The phrase I think refers to your life up to the point of college, not the many years of life after college.</p>
<p>Hi, of course I’m not in college yet so I don’t know anything about the ‘college experience’ but I do know what it’s like to be homesick. Basically what you’re feeling is almost a severe case of homesickness. You’re worried about being away from the one place you’ve called home probably most of your whole life. You don’t want to leave your friends, or family, or the family sights and sounds. I know just how you’re feeling. </p>
<p>I’ve been in the military (or apart of the military) for most of my life. I know what it’s like to just leave everything for a place you really didn’t want to move to in the first place. I’m always upset because I’ve made new friends and just started settling down and just when I feel at home I have to move again. Of course this is pretty different from your situation but I’m getting to the comparison. </p>
<p>When I first move somewhere new I’m a very bitter person. I immediately take a disliking to anywhere I go and anyone I see. I only want to talk to my friends from home and think about my previous home. But after a while I just suck it up. I’m going to be there for another three years so I make the best of it. I start making new friends, I go out and see some of the popular spots around where I live, and I just start accepting it. </p>
<p>And what I’m saying is you don’t have to love where you’re going but you just have to accept it. And I think for you it’s not college you’re upset about, it’s leaving home after you’ve made plans to stay there for a long time. </p>
<p>My best advice to you would be to make the best of a bad situation. You’re friends are only a phone call and a couple hours drive away (or maybe more but car rides are always nice). Try to mix your old life and your new life. Introduce your old friends to some new friends (if you hopefully decide to make some). </p>
<p>You can’t stay in a the little bubble called L.A forever. You have to go out and meet new people, and see new sights and what-not! If your dorm is going to be a double than get to know your roommate. Be open to making new friends and doing new and exciting things you couldn’t do anywhere else but college. Go to party every once and a while. You don’t have to drink or do any type of drugs but you can still go. I can guarantee there will be people at your school that aren’t into drinking and partying. I mean you’re going to college for free! That’s amazing! </p>
<p>And if you’re still really upset about going to college so far away from home than don’t go. Go to community college, make stellar grades, and then transfer to UCLA or USC. Stay in your own little bubble with your high school friends (who will more than likely make more than just their small little circle of high school friends), and not experience something that could be simply extraordinary. </p>
<p>*I know I’m not in college but this sounds a little more like homesickness than “the college experience”.</p>
<p>I agree, the things you mentioned should make someone happier than 4 yrs at college. I also agree that college can’t possibly be the best time of someone’s life forever and if it is then i feel sorry for that person. </p>
<p>BUT the things you mentioned should make someone happy but they aren’t fun. Having a child makes a person happy but it isn’t fun. It comes with a lot of stress, and waking up in the middle of the night, giving up a lot of your own desires and putting yourself second. Being married is(should be) great but an actual wedding usually ends up being very stressful, especially for the bride. That’s why a lot of women end up getting sick after their wedding cause the stress weakens their immune system.</p>
<p>My college experience was different then the norm- community college, semester off for internship, and then finally transferring this year. So far I like living on campus pretty well, but at the same time I think that if I had to do this for 4 years I’d probably go insane. But who knows, maybe it would have been different if I started off as a freshmen as opposed to having to deal with living with a bunch of freshmen. Honestly I think I did just fine starting a great post-high school life living with my parents, then in an apartment and all. I learned a lot of responsibility by working through college and living kind of a non-traditional college life.</p>
<p>And I certainly hope college isn’t the best 4 years of my life. Maybe the best 4 years until I actually really go out and start my life and my career and all, but really…it is a little overrated, especially when you’re talking about people being tens of thousands of dollars in debt for this so-called “college experience”.</p>