College

[Undertoad]

glatt I believe that the college folk, if they do not want to waste their money, should feel good about digging in with their own gender - and maybe nothing else.

College is a place to learn to think, not to dig in. It's a time to stretch and be stretched. To try on all kinds of ideas, including reaching to understand the ones you don't agree with.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Griff

Getting Dad to pony up may be an issue though...

No kidding. My jaw dropped when I saw the price tag. But I notice that most students there get financial aid, and the average is $10K, so maybe he can get some too.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

College is a place to learn to think, not to dig in. It's a time to stretch and be stretched. To try on all kinds of ideas, including reaching to understand the ones you don't agree with.

Nah, that's what the Cellar is for.

Besides, Ibram has already been exposed to much more than most kids his age. In real life and also here. He's been around the world. I assume his classmates in high school are mostly conservative military brats. He's in a conservative country. Has a conservative dad. Here on the Cellar, he's been exposed to a motley group of individuals with differing ideas. He's been forcefully challenged more than once.

After all the exposure to different ideas he's had so far in his life, and with his feelings of being an outsider, I think finding an insular home can be a good thing.

At a minimum, now he has a concrete idea of how different schools out there have different personalities. That's what he should be looking at.