These Shows & Movies Get College Totally Right
Elena Nicolaou Student Life Giana Levy Mekita Rivas L'Oréal Blackett Hunter Harris Kathleen Newman-B Hanna Phifer
College is so much more than pranks and kegstands. These shows capture bundle of experiences that go along with being off in the world for the first time.
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Most of us head to college with a trembling legs and an undeniable sense of excitement. But Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi), the eldest child of Black-ish's Johnson family, begins college with her own TV show: grown-ish. The show, which tracks Zoey's first year at the Southern California University, will explore the universal conundrums of college freshmen. Which person in my lecture class should I choose to have a crush on? Who are my real friends, and who are my friends of convenience? How the heck am I going to get all this work done?

It's a common theme in many of the best movies about college and post-grad life, and one of the reasons the show has become a beloved favorite for young adults.

Like it, the following movies and TV shows acknowledge that college is more than a series of wild parties, pranking hijinks, and a total complete blast (though it can be those things too). Instead, college is a setting for the kind of challenges that eventually lead to personal growth.

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