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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.

I'll add that this is practically impossible to replicate in adult life until you get into a "retirement community".

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.

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.

All of the art buildings have a certain smell too. It feels comforting.

Many campuses are like small, sprawling towns, with various buildings dedicated to different departments, dormitories, or common areas like libraries/cafes/etc. It's like a self-contained ecosystem where you can just live there as a student and have everything you need.

Yes. Though there are colleges that are just random buildings and not on a specific piece of land.

Many with land are "land grant institutions" which were created about 100 years ago.

The only people that live on campus are usually the president and many students.

It depends on the university, but somewhat. Yeah. It's a bunch of people with similar requirements all doing the same thing, and a lot of places to eat and do things. They're pretty cool from my experience. It's like a small town if everyone in the town was around the same age with similar struggles. You can trust most people and just hang out.

Yup. I lived in on-campus housing my first year, and then I moved to off-campus housing to save some cash, but it was still walking distance to the campus (like 2 blocks). 90% of my classes were in the same chunk of land, with each building being dedicated to some specific part of the university (e.g. the math building, humanities building, music building, etc). There were a couple of buildings separate from that chunk of land, but they were also within a few blocks from the main campus.

You can get by w/o a car and can do all the shopping you need right on campus (ours had a small grocery store), and there were even fast food restaurants inside the student center building (or you can go to the cafeteria, but that was at the edge of campus), so you could eat lunch right there w/o having to return to your apartment. Some days I would go to campus at 8AM and get home at 10PM when most buildings closed for the day. Our library was right in the middle of campus, so I'd frequently go there to study between classes, because I always seemed to have an hour here or there in my schedule.