<p>I’ll be a freshman next year at Wesleyan, for perspective’s sake.</p>
<p>Judging from posts I’ve read on various forums, the consensus seems to be that Wesleyan students tend to be close-minded and not consider opinions that differ from their own radically liberal beliefs. However, from my own experience of students I’ve met, this isn’t the case at all; I was a little surprised, because I chose the school semi-counting on the crazy activism as a clash to my high school atmosphere. But after visiting the campus, meeting other pre-frosh, students, and profs, it just… isn’t true. Surely most people are left-of-center, maybe more so than at an average university and particularly more than at BYU (sigh, poor school, picked on so much), and there’s a fair amount of joyful Bush-bashing. But on individual issues, I have found that most students are so radical that they don’t even stick to the stereotypically radical opinions and judge by issue. Personally, I really value that, being a pro-life vegeterian semi-libertarian globalist ANTI-DRUG-DRINKING animal-rights LGBTQ-rights activist.</p>
<p>I have a few Wes friends with piercings. Probably a few more of them will get more piercings over the next four years. Guess that’s what college does to ya. Overall, I’ve heard overwhelmingly positive things, and the people I’ve met have been friendly and helpful and wonderful.</p>
<p>I love you, Wesleyan. <3</p>