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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4307123, member: 12088"] That's all fair and reasonable. But they are also kids, and their priorities are not always so clearly thought out and their hearts not always so ready for independence. Evina seemed exceptional to me in making the decision to leave a difficult situation, resist the urge to vent about it, and then build a new place for herself at UConn with new friends. Not many 19 or 20 year olds have that degree of self-possession. When I first started teaching college classes, fresh out of grad school, I assumed I'd be working with adults. Imagine my surprise to discover how much like kids most of my students were. Of course, how different was I at 27 from also being a kid? [/QUOTE]