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Universities should be more than toll gates

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140 points wdib | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 07:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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aaplok ◴[21 Sep 25 10:17 UTC] No.45321470[source]▶
The elephant in the room here is that perhaps the biggest difference between the two learning experiences that OP is describing is himself.

He might just have discovered he is more mature at 30 than he was at 18...

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1. skeeter2020 ◴[21 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45323520[source]▶
My neighbour was telling me about how his 18-yr-old daughter was taking a liberal arts degree at a new-style sounding school. For a kid out of HS it sounded terrible, but to 40 yr-old me it sounded amazing as a second degree!