good departments and a few random questions

CharlotteRH
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:18:22 +0000

I’m a senior this year, and at the moment Macalester is one of the schools I’m most interested in going to. It seems hard to find out how different departments are, so if anyone has opinions on any of the following, that would be great:
-linguistics (Fiske guide says its bad…but it’s hard to find a lib. arts school with liguistics, so…)
-classics
-political science
-philosophy
-foreign lang. in general—any particularly bad or good? (I don’t know what lang. I will be taking, but I will take one)
-sociology

Also, do people go off campus a lot? Specifically, are there places with live music in walking distance…local rock/folk bands and such…? Is there a studenty neighborhood off campus? or do people go downtown?

If a student who’s from a diverse urban area, like me, reads this, I’d be curious what they think about St. Paul… is it a diverse city? Does it have a lot of different types of neighborhoods?

Well, if anyone actually reads this, I’d love your input. Now, I should probably stop looking forward to college and get on with high school… :-/