Went to undergrad in early 2000s. We stayed up late in the dorms talking about the meaning of life and society and existence regularly. I think you just didn't manage to find the smart interesting people. And none of us were "culturally Jewish", sounds kind of dog whistly to me.
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Yes. You were unlucky to have stupid friends.
I was in college during 9/11, which isn't relevant, but you now know the timeline.
It happened at times. Sometimes we stayed up playing video games or getting drunk, and we talked. Sometimes it was stupid shit, sometimes it got deep.
State College in the late 00s. For sure we stayed up late, solving the world's problems (theoretically) as only young, not-yet-jaded people can. There were also people who couldn't go three days without getting blackout drunk and I tended not to be good friends with them due to lack of common interests.
I also didn't meet a single Jewish person until after I graduated college, there just isn't much of a Jewish population where I grew up, so I'm deeply skeptical of that theory.
Yeah, bull sessions were (and still are) part of my experience. I'm a similar age, and had a similar university experience.
Sadly, I didn't get a chance to watch Three's Company.
Yes, I did cocaine in college
Yeah, except my experience, it was in a team speak server, smoking cigarettes over a game of unreal or quake 3 instead of a 3" diameter cigar over a game of chess. Spiritually and effectively the same as in those old biographies though.
For reference, this was at a midsized state university in the south in the early 2010s
I don’t know how our model of university translates to college, but we sat around a lot and talked politics. Whether it be by a river, on the balcony or in the forest. Usually with a glass of wine or some weed. Mid to late 2010s.
Had that at U of Chicago in the early aughts.
What do you think arguing about which Power Ranger was coolest at 3am online is?
Green Ranger and Dragonzord followed by the Quantum Ranger with the Quantasaurus Rex.
One of my friends back in the day was always about the White Power Ranger and it wasn't until high school I learned he just like the first two words of that phrase. :(
They called it Model UN
I called it being threatened with the Israeli transfer student's Krav Maga skills for even mentioning I was Palestinian American, not even from Palestine myself, just happen to have a Grandfather from West Bank.