<p>It’s not that I’m trying very hard to convince myself to apply. I just need to see whether my lack of interest was a result of realizing that my app wouldn’t be as good as I wanted it to be because of the loss of my paper. </p>
<p>I guess when I was thinking of how good the classes are, I was thinking in relative terms in comparison to the other schools that I want to go to (my top two are Harvey Mudd and MIT) as well as in comparison to my intelligence and current knowledge (I am taking Linear Algebra and Complex Analysis now, and I’ve already taken Calculus 3). My dad has a friend who got his PhD at Reed, but I doubt that the undergrad experience would be the same as the grad experience at Reed (especially since he got his PhD in CS).</p>
<p>I don’t think just looking at the course catalog can give me an actual feel of what the classes would be like, and I won’t be able to visit unless it’s one of the schools that I’m accepted to.</p>
<p>Today, I was talking to a parent who had visited Reed with their daughter recently and she talked about how much drug-related activities there were and that there always seemed to be someone smoking outside of a building (and this was this year). While I’m not overly against alcohol and marijuana, I absolutely despise cigarettes and any of the harder drugs. Can I get some honest perspective on this as well?</p>