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Four years and six figures to learn that nothing you memorized matters as much as who you met.
means A school beyond high school where you earn a degree, theoretically through coursework and exams, but really through sleep deprivation and group projects.
from From Latin collegium, 'a partnership' or 'society of colleagues,' built from com- ('together') and legere ('to choose' or 'to gather'). The same root gave us 'colleague' — someone chosen to work alongside you. A college, then, was never really about buildings or degrees; it meant a gathered body of people bound together, which is a very old way of saying the connections were the point all along.
- original meaning
- collegium meant guild or club, not campus
- oxford age
- older than the Aztec empire
- us tuition rise
- tripled since 1980, inflation-adjusted
- harvard founding
- started to train puritan ministers, 1636