> This sounds a lot like my college experience! I went from a high school of 200 students to a university (I started at the University of California, Davis) of about 16,000 undergraduate students. Counting graduate students, staff and faculty brought that total to somewhere around 24,000. The city of Davis has roughly 50,000 people, so the university is approximately half of the population. I'm now at a school about the same size (maybe a bit bigger) and the city of Sacramento has around 390,000 people, with another 600,000 people (give or take a couple hundred thousand) in the outlying areas. I'm in my fourth year, and I'm still amazed by the differences between a small town and a city.

Hehe. I have a slightly smaller number of students at my university. My experiences are of the differences between the middle of nowhere and a small town (though those differences are probably similar to those between a small town and a city, relatively.) My old school had less than 100 students... which included everything from Grade Twelve to Primary. My graduating class had six students. And I lived about a half-hour away, in a village whose population was only half again that of the school. So a univerity and town with about 3500 people each are pretty big news to me, at least to be living in. I don't how well I could handle an actual city.

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> Ell"Continuing the rambling"myruh

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