Is the right fit really possible?

clevbe1
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:14:59 +0000

This sort of question might have been already asked; I didn’t quite know how to search for it.

Here goes: I feel like I don’t know where to start looking for colleges because I’m not just one person all the time and I don’t know how other people do it either. People are multi-dimensional, right? So how is it possible to find ONE place (or even one group of similar places) where you’ll find EXACTLY your type of people, if the people you want to hang out with might change based on your different dimensions? I’ll use myself as an example: Let’s say I’m really in the mood to listen to classical music and I want to be around other people who also like listening to classical music all the time. Ok, maybe I’ll go to Juilliard. Then, an hour later, I’m really in the mood to do math problems and want to spend all my time with a bunch of math nerds. Ok, I’ll go to MIT. An hour later, I’m in the mood to go on a hike and eat organic food. Ok, I’ll go to Middlebury or something. But, it’s impossible to have a school that would satisfy all this and be some combination of Juilliard, MIT and Middlebury (plus whatever other moods I might find myself in). So how could you possibly find ONE place that’s “a perfect fit?”