I was studying in prestigious college.The biggest thing I observed that we all students were living in an incredibly competitive world and were all on the same track in some kind of race, somehow competing for the same thing.
Nobody knew what that thing is, but somehow high grades and going to an expensive college are supposed to get us there.
After I graduated from college I realised that the truth is, the world is not that competitive. My observation is that people who know how to cooperate, to help others rather than worry excessively about their own achievement, are often the happiest and most successful, by any reasonable measure of success.
When I was studying in college I always thought that there is a great advantage in getting into an elite, expensive, hard-to-get-into college.
I found this is myth. The myth was because a failure on the part of people who should know better to distinguish between correlation and causation.
Yes, going to a prestigious college correlates with getting a prestigious job and high income later on in life, but that doesn’t mean that going to the prestigious college is in any way the cause of such success . One should take advantage of facilities, good faculty members teaching and good students coming to that college and try to learn maximum from environment provided by college and work on ones personality building .
These learnings will help individual in one way or other. These learning experiences correlates to ones successful happy life.