Pre-med in Wesleyan U?

xmatt
Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:06:58 +0000

The sciences – including the pre-med scene – are really chill and laid back at Wesleyan. All the classes schedule regular TA sessions where all or most of the class will show up, hang out, and work on the problem sets. The profs really care about you and your research opportunities. They try to accommodate people taking lots of NSMs and not all set the same due date for problem sets. There’s almost no grade competition or cattiness about grades.

Side note- University Relations has seen fit to trot out the astro department all over the place recently (see the latest issue of the alumni magazine – wesleyan.edu/magazine) as a shining example of the university’s approach to the sciences. You can see me busily playing TextTwist in the control room at Kitt Peak in one of the photos in that article.