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There was so much to campus life that just felt natural and just ridiculously, offensively, convenient.
The fact that we refuse to build communities outside of school with these features, just boggles the mind.
I'll add that this is practically impossible to replicate in adult life until you get into a "retirement community". And like college, those are ridiculously expensive too. If you're an undergrad and barely old enough to drink: I urge you to please live these days to the fullest. It's tragic but you really won't get another moment like this again.
Dating too. You'll never have a group of so many single people the same age as you again, and college selects for people with similar life experiences and goals.
If there was one piece of advice I could give to young adults in school, it would be to not be afraid to start thinking long-term. There are lots of adults who graduate and get stuck in the work/home/sleep cycle for years, then wish they had prioritized this before it got more difficult.
Exactly. I met my SO at college, and we got married before finishing school. It was so much better having a reliable roommate who was up for... breaks... to get through the tough parts of the school year.
Ok but also as an adult, don’t let yourself get into that cycle. Find reasons to get out of the house and meet new people. Even when you’re married. I’ve seen so many adults let themselves become isolated because it’s easy, but ensuring you have hobbies that get you out of the house and talking to people is so valuable
Small disagreement (that shows how possible it is if effort was made to make it happen): I'm in the military, live in military housing (sizes of which are largely based on family size, up to a certain point... 3 bedroom for my wife, 2 kids and me, but 4 bedroom for the families with 6 goddamn kids omigod I can't imagine), walk to work and the galley (cafeteria-type place for meals, including for dependents), am surrounded by families with similar lifestyles and kids, have two workout spaces on base (as well as access to off-base gyms and pool through my work), and am a short walk to downtown with plenty of entertainment (and most decent sized military bases have similar situations on base itself).
So it's possible, you just have to sign your body and will away. Or, like, convince a developer to make a civilian equivalent you can just buy into, like an uber-HOA.
The military is literally a socialist meritocracy and for some reason people insist we can't have socialism in the US
Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.
Professional national armies are the government doing things, how collectivist that is depends on the government.
Even the Soviet Red Army while it was fighting Nazis wasn't "socialist" except in the sense that it was, in theory, defending the rights of the workers.
Outside of the age thing, those points all still ring true for many cities that did not buy into the whole carbrain thing.
Under the guise of the "freedom" cars being, they have taken away community, third places, affordable housing and infrastructure, and my more things just for the sake of making everywhere accessible via car.
The guy from WeWork (Adam something) tried to do that and was basically laughed off the stage.
Maybe he should have tried doing it good, then
Ideas like these take a lot of money, and he didn't have any of his own at the time. He was a student who was looking for funding for his ideas.
There is always a kernel of truth.