Since you don't include "the following" benefits of college then one may surmise the benefits:
1) Increased education
2) increase in making personal connections that benefit ones ability to get a job
3) personal growth toward becoming independent ...
For starters.
One thought that is not a benefit is
1) having lots of free time to do what one wants to do.
Something unpleasant or dreadful is happening or being observed (/sensed (such as smell))
The narrator is someone outside of the story.
I think this is the right answer
I believe your answer would be C
