I can confirm, I&#x27;d place much more value (including monitary- and career- value) on the connections made with people sharing the experience of being an irresponsible young person than I would the connections made during study&#x2F;projects&#x2F;&quot;networking&quot; etc.  This isn&#x27;t to say that A) these groups didn&#x27;t overlap significantly or B) I wish I&#x27;d gotten blackout drunk more often; but the social aspect of being forced into close quarters living your life for a few years with peers in your age group is as least of equal value to the &quot;education&quot; part.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to say it in many different ways, but I&#x27;ll try again: being &quot;graded&quot; constantly and basing huge path-driving decisions on those grades are a huge detriment to people and to society.  I and many others would have had a much better, more rewarding, and more valuable experience if the point of Univerity wasn&#x27;t gathering a dozen metrics a week for several years in a row in order to get a piece of paper.