Not an athlete at all

Curiosisity
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:02:09 +0000

I don’t think you would be an odd-man out at all. I think that Amherst does have a lot of athletes, yes, but a lot of people who even mention, “Oh, I play softball” only play casually for fun. That’s generally the impression I get from Amherst - a lot of people play around on different teams and clubs because the school is small and they try to encourage students to get involved, but that doesn’t mean everyone is a cutthroat athlete. But it may give an impression that everyone is playing sports!

For example, on my intro in the Amherst Facebook group, I mentioned I play soccer, but really I haven’t been on a field in five months and I don’t even know if I would play at Amherst! I will see what I feel like when I get there. So over the internet you might get the impression that I’m an athlete, whereas that’s definitely not my focus.