the.com/college
Four years renting knowledge at mortgage prices, then paying for decades.
means An institution where adults pursue degrees, independence, and occasionally an education, between high school and full employment.
from From Latin collegium, a community of colleagues bound by shared rules and purpose, long before football rivalries and ramen budgets joined the cause.
Oldest still runningUniversity of Bologna, founded 1088.
Word driftOriginally meant the colleagues, not the campus.
Etymology cousinShares roots with colleague and collegial.