| Drinking is big at Carleton, which I'm sure has been addressed ad nauseum in older threads. Drugs (aside from pot) are not big at all, though, and even pot isn't too big here for a liberal arts college. My experience has been that far fewer people do drugs of any sort (but especially coke, ecstasy, adderall, etc.) with any regularity here than back home or at friends' schools on the coasts. This isn't to say that nobody at Carleton uses these drugs, but it's basically limited to a few small groups of mostly seniors. There's not really the stim/ADD meds culture around finals here that is present at many top schools, either. I don't know about drug use at Vassar, but I imagine that the rate of hard drug use at Carleton is lower, based off of the midwestern cultural aversion to drugs in general and Vassar's much artsier reputation. (The people who I can think of who use harder drugs here are largely art, cinema and media studies, philosophy types, so this isn't an unreasonable stereotype.) There are not many pot dealers in the area, either, so prices are very high ($50-60 for an eighth), quality is low, and lots of people who might smoke regularly if they went somewhere else don't. |