i think we've mostly forgotten how much those transitions sucked (those of us who went through them) but for me the transition from college to post-college in particular was such a jarring shock, i went from having all my social needs met to having none of them met
in college i would spend hours a day hanging out with my favorite people, literally every day, and i've *never* gotten a social environment as good as that for longer than, like, a week at a time since
closed wards are really crazy levels of together-ness.
bunch of people locked up together in a relatively tiny area, no one is allowed to ever leave, there is literally nothing to do all day.
everyone just smokes cigarettes* and talks all day.
*except me