College in the 90s - More fun more free in the 90s?

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]

Re-watched "Urban Legends" for the first time in forever, holds up ok. But it got me wondering.

For those of us who actually went to college in the 90s and maybe the early 00s, at least pre-01 9/11, was it a more enriching experience? Was it more fun and the like?

Alternatively, does going to a bigger college guarantee more opportunities not only after graduation but during attendance. Not only in terms of fun with classmates but in terms of actually making friends.

Is having the college experience seen in films going to mean you essentially put yourself 500k in the hole now so you go to a large university somewhere on the east coast most likely?

 

[Least Concern]

For those of us who actually went to college in the 90s and maybe the early 00s, at least pre-01 9/11, was it a more enriching experience? Was it more fun and the like?

More enriching than what? Going to college now?

I'm not going to college now, so I can't really compare.

It was fine, I guess. Would have done some things differently, but I guess I could say that about any four-year period of my life. Hindsight is 20/20 and other cliches.

Alternatively, does going to a bigger college guarantee more opportunities not only after graduation but during attendance. Not only in terms of fun with classmates but in terms of actually making friends.

A bigger college might have more groups and clubs in things that interest you, but I think "guaranteeing more opportunities" would come down more to the prestige of the school, rather than its size.

 

[PaleTay]

I went recently. My professors told me that it used to be mostly white, so I assume it would be pretty different.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I went to college in late 90s - early 00s. My experience is sort of useless as I lived at home and went to a commuter state flagship college. However, it was where I now can see where woke was creeping in in retrospect. Like one of my linguistic professors trying to say that the only reason labor was painful for women was that we called it labor and I got into some argument with an English professor about blindly worshiping Native American culture and I had one of my EE history professors straight up deny the Ukrainian holocaust. But I couldn't put it all together at the time. I wasn't even really liberal or conservative, I just had some common sense and cited the evidence. However, there was no cancel culture because social media was still not a thing. I was free to say those things because maybe people would disagree with me, but then they would forget and move on with their lives because worrying about what a retard like me thought was an absolute waste of time. Too bad life don't be like that anymore, so in that sense, it was far more free.

I wouldn't recommend going to college most of the time now. I was lucky to get out with manageable amount of student debt paid off a long time ago. Connections only work if you already have connections, if that makes any sense. College won't probably make a huge difference.

 

[sasazuka]

I've been to college/university in both the 1990s and also fairly recently (returned to college only to have it interrupted by COVID-19).

One thing I definitely prefer about college "now" is not having to spend hundreds of dollars on overpriced textbooks (which may still be a problem depending on what you're studying), but, overall, if you're asking whether I preferred the college experience in the 1990s compared to today, the answer is obviously going to be yes simply because being young is preferable to being middle-aged.