| I thought I would fall madly in love with Amherst. My mother and I went to the info session before the tour we were scheduled for, and by the end of it, we were both thoroughly disenchanted. I don't even know exactly what it was about the campus, the speaker, or the student that made us react so strongly against it, but at the end of the info session, she whispered, "You know, there's no reason why we can't skip the tour". I responded, "Let's bolt!", and so we did.
I was actually very reassured by my visit to St. John's College in Annapolis. I loved the idea of the program, but I had been curious about the kind of students such an odd little college would attract- especially since I'm a relatively conservative person. But when I visited, they seemed pretty similar to the students I'd seen at all of the more conventional liberal arts colleges. Sure, there was more multi-colored hair, and a group of students playing a fantastic blend of country and Irish music in the quad, but these students were pleasantly quirky, not completely freaky. |