can someone explain the importance of "camp"?

Lots of being born on third and thinking you hit a triple in this thread.

If you're Texan and your parents are the anxious type they might send you on a 2 hr bus ride to the hill country for 1 or 2 weeks every summer so you can see your school friends in a supervised environment - but those camps are not to be confused with the OG camps on the east coast. The original summer camp idea is you go 3.5 or 7 weeks, no technology, you learn to sail and kayak and make fire and you learn to get along with a cabin full of boys or girls from EVERYWHERE. You sleep in cabins with no electricity, no AC and you take a flashlight through the woods if you you need to go at night.

If you did camp right you don't cry into your pillow for the first 30 days as a freshman, you can navigate any size college, you know how to address course questions and speak to your professors, you know how to advocate for yourself on the outside and you know how to take care of your life on the inside like personal hygiene, keeping a neat room and staying healthy. That's the purpose of camp - to help you become autonomous when you no longer listen to your parents but still have ways to go. And you can't learn that at Mystic or Waldemar during a 7 day stint with your private school friends.