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Guest blogger Lori Getz: I remember being 17, packing up my car and leaving high school behind me. Don't get me wrong: I didn't hate high school at all; I was just ready for a fresh start in college. I thought about how I would be different, correcting the personal flaws that had gotten me in trouble in the past. I thought about what types of friends I would try to make, and which ones I would stay clear of. I thought about what I would wear, leaving my cheerleading skirt behind to try to create a more mature look. No one in college would know about how I'd been bullied by the "mean girls"; no one in college would know about the nickname (still too horrible to reveal) that haunted me for years. It was going to be a new and improved me!
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I am not sure where things are going to go from here. I agree that students today do not have the separation that they used to have. They can keep much of their support network. Students are also more likely to be interacting online, where geography does not matter.
Another perspective though is that of the fraternity or sorority or dorm floor. I know a lot of people that built social networks from these sources and still carry forward with them today. I know a lot of young people that actually have some pretty solid friends and some excellent contacts in their lists. Networking, the business term, can be a huge part of social networks. A clean break will cut off the good as well as the bad.
Jacob
I wouldn’t worry that much I believe our kids would have to be smart enough to know what they want to take along with them to College and what to leave behind as a good memory, there’s nothing wrong if they want to keep the old FB profile. It’s not like they sell Kamagra Gel with it.
I appreciate the quality writeup. I’m a organization assistant professor in Nebraska and have passed the post to my mates.
Good info. Enjoyable reading. I’ve got a thing to offer about tee shirts.
I do agree with all of the ideas you’ve presented in your post. They are really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are very short for novices. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.
my kid did a major purge before heading off to college. MAJOR. Only 1 or 2 long lost camp friends reconnected, but the remaining 287 were water under the high school bridge!
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