Question

what advantages and disadvantages hellen keller came across when she joined college?

Answer 1

Advantage:-
She always wanted to join college and when she got to join her dream college she was very happy.

Disadvantage:-
She was barely coping with the speed of the syllabus.She did not had any time to learn and reflect .

Answer 2

Disadvantages....
  Helen had expected college to be a dream land she expected to gain knowledge in the world free from all constrains and restrictions. She hoped for happy times. But she soon discovered that college was not a paradise. There was lack of time. She could not have leisure time even to commune with her thoughts. She remarks:
    "One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think."
 She learnt to her dismay that as one enters college one leaves behind the pleasures of solitude, books and imagination.
   Then there were some practical problems. She found her professors remote. She could not make notes during the lecture. She jotted down what she remembered of them when she got home and wrote every thing on her typewriter. As very few books were printed for the blind, she was forced to have them spelled on her hands. So, she needed more time to prepare her lessons compared to the other girls....

Advantages....
 After having entered the college Helen realized that her stay there was not to be as romantic as she had envisioned once. She learnt many things which she would never would have experienced if she had not tried the experiment. One of the things she learnt was "precious science of patience which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country leisurely." She knew that knowledge means to know "true ends from false, and lofty things from low." To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress, Helen feels, is:
  "to feel the great heart throb of humanity through the centuries."

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