The essence of a university is actually to give you more opportunities for growth and a better platform for growth. The duty of a university is to train more thoughtful talents.
When you leave college, you find that you are no longer the child who worries your parents about your independence, because you have grown up and become a better self in the four years of college.
You won't cry and tell your parents that you are homesick, because you know that one day you will be independent and one day you won't let your parents worry about you.
You won't be confused to brush everyone's circle of friends in Weibo and write some melodramatic words on it, because you have too many things to do, and you know how to solve loneliness and arrange your life.
You don't fall in love with someone, and you don't love for love's sake. You prefer to enjoy a good life alone until the right person appears.
You will no longer complain about the meanness of the school, the utilitarianism of the teachers and the indifference of the classmates. Because you are used to it, you learn to accept it, and finally you become a better self.
Now you may prefer to sit in the library and read your favorite books. I like walking and listening to music after supper. The game has passed that age for you, and you will occasionally feel the simplicity and childishness of your schoolmates around you, but you won't change anything, because many things need to be truly experienced.
Now you are very grateful to yourself, and college has made you experience too many firsts. Skipping class for the first time, staying up late for the first time, repeating a grade for the first time, climbing the wall for the first time ... You are doing things that you didn't dare to do before, constantly refreshing your three views, and finally one day you settle down.
It turns out that universities teach us more than knowledge, but let us learn to grow, abandon impetuousness and be better ourselves.
So I said that the essence of university is to let us learn to grow, and the duty of university is to cultivate people who are more thoughtful than those who have never been to university.