How is Williams College?

seoulsk
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:48:02 +0000

Hey OP!!

I’m a current Williams Student. Williams is an incredible place. Nevermind a few parents, a few students… CC isn’t exactly an ideal sample for making judgments about a college. The simple fact is that people are pretty unkind to each other. (See Changes by Tupac)
So, ignoring all that, I’ll tell you a bit about why I love Williams.

I was a pretty low-income high school student from Texas. I had taken only 1 AP class when I applied to Williams. I hadn’t taken Calculus in high school, yet I wanted to do something in Division III (Sciences and Mathematics). I wasn’t ready for how difficult Williams was. There are really gifted kids from fortunate backgrounds… Exeter and Andover and all kinds of places I had never heard of! But they didn’t cut my throat and make me feel bad for coming in with a lower level of knowledge, they reached out and helped me to step up to their level.

In my first week of classes a student I had just met took the time to teach me all of Calculus I. I got to skip through Calculus I and with the help of an incredible math faculty and kind peers, I just made an A in Multivariable Calculus (Calc III). This is particularly special to me because when I was in 8th grade my teacher told me I would never make it to Calculus (She thought I was too dense).Williams is a very very difficult school. But Williams is also very nurturing. This is what I find special about Williams.

Regarding the town… it’s small, but it doesn’t feel terribly small. Only isolated! Which is a plus or a minus, depending on the person.

All in all, there are unfriendly people all around the world. Wherever you go! Williams, Amherst, MIT, Harvard, Centenery College of Louisiana… There will be people who aren’t welcoming. Perhaps take this thread as a lesson to not take any of that too seriously, and to always take the best things you can out of any fiasco.

PM me if you’d like to know more about Williams, I really do love it here.