People Considering going to Oberlin & Reed College

gratefulalum
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:55:38 +0000

Why would a brainy place like MIT finance more than 30 varsity teams? Are they delusional? Maybe because they see that a large majority of the so-called achievers in this country are former high school and/or college athletes. Probably, their most active alumni in terms of time and money are former athletes.

Back to the subject at hand. Someone close to me went to Reed. She was a bright, attractive, happy girl excited to be going away to college. When I saw her two years later, she was wearing a shoulder to floor tunic, unsmiling, unhappy, and seemed to be suffering from some post-traumatic stress disorder. I heard that she had problems with men and drugs. I am sure she was not typical.