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When College Stopped Being Social

Episode 255 · Sep 28, 2026 · 66 min

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In this week’s episode we discussed the decline of face-to-face socializing on college campuses and what smartphones, the pandemic, remote learning, and an increasingly competitive campus culture have to do with it. We ask what students may be missing when college becomes more about achievement and less about simply hanging out.

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