Approximate time stamps:
2:55 Jenna Chia, now in Norway, discusses how long it took her to graduate, what she double-majored in, the size of her school, UW-Madison in Wisconsin, and how it made her feel compared to high school. I talk about the size of Princeton and how I think it makes some or all Princetonians feel.
6:45 Expectations: we both took the traditional four-year college paths (even though it took me five years to graduate and Jenna, 3.5). We talk about who we were in high school and our college application process.
14:15 The academic atmosphere in Northern Europe.
19:30 Cultural differences in the perception of productivity.
23:00 Why each of us chose the colleges we attended.
28:00 Our dream schools, i.e. the colleges we didn't attend.
30:00 The neurobiology of decision-making and why it seems counterproductive to correctly deciding about college when you're a young adult.
37:00 We start a discussion about...debt.
45:00 Why exactly is college tuition so steep? What the research indicates.
48:00 Alternatives to starting college immediately after graduating high school.
51:00 What do you gain from college tours and visits?
54:00 Why did Jenna cancel every class except Calculus?
1:06 A second collaboration?
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