Another universal truth about college is college is what you make of it. And there's no better example than this: at a summer send-off, I asked an upperclassmen, out of curiousity, what the college experience at that particular university gave us. After a thoughtful silence, he replied (pensively), "It teaches you how to think". If I must elaborate, it's a combination of sharp analyzing skills, being able to communicate through the fourth wall, understanding social structures and phenomenons with keeness, and, in a complacent kind of way, being "intellectually snobbish". Those who did not get the college experience at this school can easily dismiss this "It teaches you how to think" comment easily, by virtue of its lameness (or whatever that quality is). It's too vague, they would argue. Moreover, the term "intellectually snobbish" sounded as if we were defending our academic reputation, should anyone suspect that our institution is, in a perverted manner, academically irrelevant. What's even more interesting is at a Career: 101 workshop at our career-advising office, one of the counselors related the same line (from graduates on their college years) back to us. This is clearly what the life of the mind is about. No, in the setting of the career-advising office, it was more like the real gem we were endowed with to embark into the real world: the University of Life.