| Oh, don't worry! My Reedie is a little eccentric, but also was relatively liked in high school. He didn't "not fit in", he just didn't fit in *as well* as he did at Reed. (In high school his classmates indulged his intellectualism and thought him amusingly odd because of it. It's not a "charming eccentricity" to be intellectual at Reed.) It's not that you have to be a friendless quirky mess to do okay at Reed -- it's that the student body is elastic enough to accept a lot. |