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- Why did you decide to attend college? Was it expected in your family, or were you the first to go?
- How many different colleges did you apply to? Did you pick just one or two favorites or did you apply to several?
- Were the applications difficult to fill out? Did you work on them for hours or complete them all at the last minute? Did your efforts pay off?
- Which school did you attend? Describe it. Was it big or small? Liberal arts or a technical school?
- Where was it located? Did you go away to college or stay close to home?
- If you went away, how did you feel when you left for college? Did you feel mature and independent? Were you scared of what was ahead of you? Did you have any expectations about how you would perform academically?
- Did you "go wild" when you first arrived at college, knowing that your parents weren't looking over your shoulder? Did you enjoy being your own keeper or was it scary for you?
- What kind of a schedule did you have at school? Did you take a heavy load of courses and have a job too, or did you find yourself with a lot of free time? Were you most likely to be found in the library? In the pub? In the gym?
- Did you have a favorite class or professor? What did you learn from this class or person? Was anyone your mentor at school?
- How did you decide what subject matter to study? Was there an area of study that was particularly popular among students of your age?
- Who were your friends in college? How did you meet them? Through classes or the place that you lived? Were they friends that you had in high school or did you meet new people?
- Where did you live at college? In a dormitory, rooming house, or at home? If you didn't live at home, what did your room look like? Where did you get your meals? How was the food?
- What was most surprising about college? The difficulty of classes? The variety of people who attended? The ideas that they had?
- Were you a participant in any extra-curricular activities? Clubs, sports, or the newspaper staff, for example? Why did you become involved in these activities? Was it a way to meet new people?
- What types of campus events did you attend, if any? Were there plays or concerts? Did the school have a football team? Were there school dances? With whom did you go to these events?
- Did you play any college pranks? What did you do? Were you ever disciplined for any of these pranks?
- Did you ever have the chance to travel abroad during your studies? Where and why did you go? What did this experience add to your education?
- Did you ever transfer between colleges? Why? Where did you go? Was it easy or difficult to make the transition? Which school did you like better and why? Did you think that transferring was a positive part of your education?
- Did you save any memorabilia from your college years? Papers that you wrote or books that you used? A scrapbook? What feelings or memories did these items bring back in later years?
- Overall, how was your college experience? Later in life, were you glad that you went? Was it an experience that you would want your children or grandchildren to have? Or, did you find that college wasn't your cup of tea?
- If you graduated, did you attend your graduation ceremony? Why or why not? Did you wear a cap and gown? Who spoke and who attended?
- If you graduated, how did you feel about leaving school? What kinds of life expectations did you have as a graduate? Did you think that as a college graduate you had a head start on life? Were you overly optimistic?
- If you didn't graduate, what happened that you weren't able to? Were there monetary problems or family needs? Did you find a career that didn't require a college education? Did you not like the college atmosphere?
- If you didn't graduate, how did you feel about leaving? Were you glad to be moving on? Were you sad to leave friends and school? A little bit of both?
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