College life is true freedom

There was so much to campus life that just felt natural and just ridiculously, offensively, convenient.

Practically everyone is roughly the same age as you, and that group is thousands strong (depends on where you go).
Just drop in on dorm rooms and say 'hi' to friends, whenever.
Dining is usually very close by.
Lots of entertainment options, most days of the week.
Included access to showers and fitness facilities (varies).
Free bus travel with student ID (varies).
Student ID discounts at some retail (varies).

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
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.
- Maybe he should have tried doing it good, then
- There is always a kernel of truth.
It’s important to remember that living in this kind of utopia is highly unsustainable and everyone comes out of it with heavy debt that can take half a lifetime to recover from.
- Because they're young people who are also paying for a service. The debt has relatively little to do with the community model, you could absolutely build it around jobs or production in some fashion.
- Take a look at the finances of automobile-oriented development. "Highly unsustainable" and "heavy debt" are the bywords there. As long as we're spending that kind of money, shouldn't we at least make ourselves happy?
- Eh, I worked my way through college so I didn't have any debt at the end. I worked part-time during fall/winter semesters, and worked full-time during the summers, which was enough to not need any loans whatsoever.
  I think it's still possible today, but I haven't run the numbers recently. I had a roommate that ended up with a ton of debt though because they didn't work much through college, so it was still an issue even when I went.

My favorite place to nap was in the Art building. Not only was it a huge open space, literally no one would bother you. Moreover, there was always someone practicing an instrument or working on some form of music. One time before their exam I heard a girl warming up her voice and hoooooly shit there was no way she got anywhere below a 100% or however they grade. She was so good I nearly decided to go find her and express my gratitude for an amazing performance. haha

All of the art buildings have a certain smell too. It feels comforting.
- yeah, arts can be smelly
- Is it weed?

Say, is this what's like in the US? I mean, I hear of campuses. What are those? Are colleges like small cities and people just be living in there? Maybe it's a US thing, or maybe it's just my experience, idk

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.
- You can trust most people
  Debatable. Ask a woman about it for the full story.
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.

It really do

Sadly, this is until security checks your ID, and the last University I went to had Hostile Architecture anywhere and everywhere the administration(or some student project... 🤮) could come up with the slightest(or no) excuse, indoors or out.