Even when something in academia doesn't have an agenda, it will be interpreted by everyone else as if it does.
Despite all the brilliant minds and appearance of professionalism and pride and campus pageantry...
it's easily a much more insecure, drama-filled, immature, and petty social dynamic and environment than most high schools.
That seems imo to be due to a combination of academia itself and a govt (or govt style) administration apparatus, where everyone is constantly trying convince everyone else of the importance of what it is they do.
Despite all the brilliant minds and appearance of professionalism and pride and campus pageantry...
it's easily a much more insecure, drama-filled, immature, and petty social dynamic and environment than most high schools.
That seems imo to be due to a combination of academia itself and a govt (or govt style) administration apparatus, where everyone is constantly trying convince everyone else of the importance of what it is they do.