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How To Make Your Commuter School Feel More Like A Community - Blavity

Anyone who has ever attended a commuter school or community college will tell you that the experience is different. Don't take

this as meaning the experience is negative or boring, it's just different and for a lot of people, those differences are for the

best.

In my opinion, there is this unreasonable expectation to move across the country and somehow gain all this life experience,

clarity, and freedom. People who do this may experience this in part, but it is not the only

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