Why do we Americans love making college/university life seem like a wild long term vacation?

[CasaNorba]

I was watching that movie Photocopier last night on Netflix. its about a girl who obviously like the title is a photocopier who prints documents for a living that one night her world flips outside down when she goes to a party and someone drugs her and uploads all the monstrosity in social media. she then gets kicked out of college which causes tension between her and her family. so the movie is about her going on a rampage and seeking justice with her bare hands.

till then this movie is and takes place in Indonesia and it striked me so hard how different things are there compare to here in America. It is the polar opposite because obviously almost all American movies based on college all you see is students...

• partying every night
• drinking and doing drugs
• fucking different chicks/dudes each night
• going on road trips

and the list goes on. so in that movie that main character literally got kicked out of college because she did in her private life what colleges students here do often while in campus.

so I always wondered why do we Americans always make college/university seem like a long wild spring break vacation? is this a way to inspired young folks to actually attend college? could this just be propaganda?

[Slartybartfast]

Depends on the major. I don't know any engineering students who "party" in fact we used to say spring break was the best studying time. Any free time I had I spent at work. I usually only slept a couple hours a night.

I suppose the frat boy with the MBA and minor in binge drinking or the communications or women's studies major have time, but students like that usually have wealthy parents and good jobs lined up for them by connections.

[lightbulb27]

ItAll the kids around me worked their tails off in studies to succeed. The media always takes a magnifying glass onto those who fall outside the "bell curve", and distorts it further.

It does exist, especially at big campuses... if that's what a person wants.

Sadly, we don't promote achievement.

hollywood is a smut generator, turn it off...

[anon1903]

Films usually highlight the most interesting parts of life. Most people miss their college days, even though partying every night is next to impossible, they like to go through these movies in search of lost youth.

I'm a college girl myself. Films here cannot be further from the truth. Love triangle, affair, accidental pregnancy (do you think college kids are that stupid?) Etc. It's annoying and amusing.

[Ms_Vanderquack]

Because if they made movies about studying, depression, and crippling debt nobody would watch them.

[cryscrys1]

So true 😂😂 and Biden finally postponing the loan fee for 2 extra months

[MTC29]

My university experience consisted of trying to find enough time to study, sleep and eat. When I entered grad school, sleeping was dropped from the list.

[jshm2]

Mainly because something like 60% of American higher education is just semi-adult day care, and a money spinner for the institutions to fund their proper business

[exitseven]

This is just in the movies. Nobody would pay the see a bunch of kids sitting in the library studying for exams. Yes, parties do happen but it is not like in the movies.

[Leonharted]

All 3 pictures you showed were involving frat houses. Frat houses do throw a lot of parties.

[joeldalton]

It’s the only time in your entire life where you’ll have maximum freedom and minimal responsibility. If it’s not like Animal House, you’re doing it wrong.

[Citizenkirk]

To give Japanese honor students something to shoot for when they get to the university.

[Sevenpointfive]

i don't know where you're from but that is college where i'm from

[bamesjond0069]

Because thats how it is. When i was in college i was shit faced all the time partying getting into trouble. We have a saying "Cs get degrees" 😆

[LegendaryIcon]

some, choose to get engaged during college, i see it all the time

[Babygirl_S]

We do it too so don't worry.