International Student considering Reed

lostint
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:21:53 +0000

@International95 - The stick out comment was because I’ve heard of Asians getting a bad rep for isolating themselves or being too conservative. For example the Florida Tech subreddit has a lot of strong anti-Asian sentiments. I don’t really blame them because campus life in an engineering school with~30% int students is probably very dull. As a very liberal/progressive private school/big city kid in a conservative South Asian country, I think I can sort of relate to them. I guess Reed’s liberal stereotype (I think I saw ‘pot head’ thrown around on some Reed-related threads on other sub-forums) automatically deters the more conservative students.

Also, as a student from a very old private school with a ton of weird traditions, where can I read up on Reed’s traditions? Thesis Parade? Streaking at Lewis&Clark? Sounds fascinating to me.

On the topic of HUM, would I need to come in with an extensive knowledge of philosophy, etc to not be overwhelmed from day 1? Unfortunately my local education system made me completely specialize in science/math during my last few years in high school, so I’m probably behind the curve here despite my strong interest in philosophy/arts, etc.