LAC's: Claustrophobic

hoedown
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:44:43 +0000

I went to a college of less than 800. Yes, you read that right. Smaller than my high school.

My default plan was that if the place started feeling too small, I’d do one of their many campus exchange programs, or I’d go abroad. But the campus never did feel too small, and when I graduated it was with the sense that I could have spent another couple of years there and STILL not exhausted the classes I wanted to take, the professors I wanted to get to know, the clubs I’d like to explore. There might be less of everything, but there is still enough, and you get to hear reputationally about really great departments and profs–not all of which you’ll have time for in four short years.

Darling is right about the coming and going. I never felt like I knew everybody.