Dropped my oldest off at an overnight camp at Centre College. I was a nerd in high school, so I got to stay there for Governor's Scholars ... 25 years ago. The dorms are exactly the same as when I was there - I mean exactly the same. How is this possible? Because they were trash even back then. And it costs how much to go to school there? In f***ing Danville, no less?
One of my best friends from growing up went to Governors Scholars, then went to Centre, graduated early, and ended up sleeping on his parents’s living room couch (front room) for years after graduation. (His parents purposefully dismantled his basement bedroom).
Sometime after his failure to launch, his parents took his little sister down for Centre orientation and his dad stopped by the career office. They said, “How can we help you?” And he said, “You can get my son off my couch.”
They handed him an informational booklet titled, “After Centre: SUCCESS!” The cover image is a smiling, carefree, cap & gowned Centre graduate, sitting on a swing hung from an tree. And that carefree graduate... was his son.
He’s doing good now, so I bet the dad got over it. But he was pretty pissed at the time, IIRC.