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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 8, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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How does college make it so "you are still surrounded by the same set of people every day, forced into constant, recurring proximity"?

Er... by doing just that? That is exactly what my college experience was like, I'm very confused by this question. I saw the same people every day, whether that was guys in the dorm or people in classes. And the people in classes were fairly consistent from term to term because the fellow students in my major were taking many of the same classes as me.

Hell, I barely even bothered attending classes after the first semester

Something tells me that this is a very unusual college experience. At any rate it is completely dissimilar to mine. If one cared about learning (to be fair I didn't cause I was young and stupid), you aren't going to learn without going to class. And if you care about passing, you are still going to miss out on participation points (often a significant chunk of my grades!) if you don't go to class.