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The Smaller The School, The Bigger The Drama

It may not seem like it, but it's true.

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The smaller the school, the bigger the drama. I attend a small college, and because of that, drama and gossip are blown way out of proportion in some situations. People overreact; people get violent or mean. It’s crazy how far people will go. Some people just have lots of drama because they live in the same town they always have, but some people have drama because people they just started being friends with started drama. The amount of drama I have dealt with at my school, just since the end of August, is ridiculous. I am still dealing with drama right now, yet I’m not even at school.

1. The smaller the school, the bigger the gossip.

When not many people attend the school, they all know one another. This is one of the problems with going to such a small college. People gossip about everyone. Every single person I know gossips. It’s just what happens when everyone knows almost every person that attends the school. Gossip seems to be just as bad at my college as it was in my high school; both schools were attended by about 2,000 students. The fact that people still gossip does not surprise me; I gossip, too. Everyone does.

2. If you know more people, you get less privacy.

The more people you know, the less privacy you have. It’s as simple as that. When more people know you, more people will gossip about your actions at a party or about how you acted in class. Even when you’re walking around the floor of the residence hall, you will see people you know. Basically, everywhere you are on campus, you will know someone. So almost all of the time, people will see what you do and how you act towards others, and if it’s memorable, they will gossip about it.

3. At a party, if you do something regrettable, people will gossip about it.

Even if you’re just being loud at a party, people will gossip about you saying you’re obnoxious and annoying at parties. Also, people will gossip about how you weren’t hanging out with your boyfriend at the party, they will gossip about anything they find unusual. Attending a small school means that the parties are even smaller and if you regularly attend parties then you know basically everyone there.

4. Your relationship is everyone’s business.

At small schools, everyone tends to want to know your business. I was in a relationship, and people would always ask me how it was going. Being asked about the details of your relationship constantly means that a lot of people know about it. All of my friends knew about my relationship and about everything that happened between my boyfriend and me. Sometimes talking about my relationship would actually cause drama within the relationship, but we tended to work it out pretty quickly.

5. Drama is constant.

You cannot get away from drama, even if you try to avoid it. Going to a small college makes it harder for you not to be surrounded by drama.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my school. But the problem with going to a small school is that everyone knows your business, and everyone gossips about it at some point.

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