Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by saagarjha on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:37PM
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For many, living in a dorm is a chance to slowly learn how to do things like laundry or cooking or paying rent without a parent directly involved.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by JCharante on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:40PM
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Although undergrad is an opportunity to work in a research lab where you start to collaborate with graduate students and the professor that runs the lab. Additionally universities have many "students" (TAs,SAs,PLAs, there's many titles for them) running classes, so it provides a role model for students in a digestible n+1 format.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by vkou on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @04:26PM
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The overwhelming majority of students who go to college never see the inside of a lab - unless they need to stop by the 'computer lab' to print something off.
Most people, as it turns out, don't pursue technical degrees. Fewer than 10% of degrees are in STEM fields, with another ~10% being in a medicine-adjacent field.
The number of undegraduates who actually go on to do meaningful, novel, work in a lab (As opposed to just using a facility for a few hours, in order to pass a course) is even smaller than that.
The typical live-in-a-dorm college experience is not so much a mental shock as is about putting off adult life for another four years, while you party.
And, while older (30+) students do exist, most of them don't live in dorms (And those that do, don't live with all the 18-20 year olds.) They will be, at best on the distant periphery of your peer group.
For most people, college does not solve this problem.