What harms too many college students is the giddy sense of freedom - out from under parental supervision and guidance and from the teachers who watch for trouble and hassle them about upcoming tests and papers due.
Freedom always carries responsibility for the free - and it is very easy to get caught up in the freedom and forget why you're there.
People tell themselves there's a whole semester to master the material for the final and they tell themselves that when there's only a half-semester and then a tenth.
It's not just dating and partying that's seductive - it's all night debates and concerts and theater productions.
The ones who understand that you must work to deserve are usually fine. Those that don't are gone by sophomore year.
Easing into it through community college is not a bad idea.
