Connell Shinus never seemed like much of an obstacle to his social life because everyone knew who he was already. He realized that most people were not actually doing the reading they were coming into college every day to have heated debates about books they had not read. Marianne has this great line where she's like I don't know there are people here I didn't plan on being here and I didn't know what I was supposed to say to them or all that kind of stuff it's very interesting. For many of us it is the first time that you're in a place of your own choosing that you go to and some people are not but that is certainly the experience of the class of