Originally Posted by Walking Shadow

Umm, hate to break this to you, but it's not really possible to become less intelligent simply because of the people around you, unless you are brainwashed or suffer a severe head trauma that results in some type of retrograde amnesia.

Now, perhaps what you meant to say is that you feel like you're less well-informed because of the people around you. That could very well be the case, but that's hardly the fault of those around you, quite the contrary, the onus is on you to make yourself a more well-informed person.

As far as feeling like I was less well-informed after I got out of college, not really, if anything I had more time to watch the news and read newspapers etc, 'cause i didn't have to worry about going to class/studying.