"pajama schools" (+ the opposite)

rainmama
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:36:17 +0000

Great thread, and I hope you don’t mind a parent/professor barging in. Most professors don’t care what you wear, but wearing baseball hats in class is considered rude by some, and problematic by others, who just want to see your face. Hats really get in the way of that.

On the college tour circuit, I noticed the girls at Harvard favored wool dress coats and pea coats, which struck me as quite dressy and somewhat odd, as I come from the land of North Face and REI attire. My son was quite excited about spotting a father and son Burberry scarf duo on a tour at Amherst, but otherwise loved the school. Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, MIT and NYU all seemed pretty varied.