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You may think it is trivial or uninteresting that I was disappointed by the overall quality of the teaching and the academic experience at Swarthmore, but I do not.
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I know. You are a very principled, idealistic young man who takes the mythical ideal of academic perfection very seriously.
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I elected to give up some of the prestige available to me at an Ivy, because I thought Ivy prestige was a sham and the academic experience at Swarthmore would be markedly better. Now, I just don't know if that's the case.
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Ahhh. The real truth comes out. Shoulda gone with the designer brand! I didn't think you would admit that.
I know that you don't want to hear about the COFHE surveys, so I would bore you with the fact that Harvard consistently scores as the bottom of the pack. Ever wonder why Larry Summers told a couple of Harvard students complaining about the faculty that, if they wanted to get to know their professors, they should have gone to Amherst or Swarthmore?
Of course your own college's food is worse than schools you visit! Doh. You don't have eat their same old tired food 365 days a year until you are sick of it. People who eat at Swarthmore a few times think the food is pretty good. BTW, you really cracked me up earlier with your indignation over not hiring a top-rated chef (a chef! a top-rated chef!) to oversee an institutional kitchen serving three squares a day to 1300 kids. A top-chef? What's next? Ice sculptures? I know, maybe they could get Bobby Flay.