Omg I just logged onto cc for the first time in many many months to reply to this because I’ve been feeling the SAME way! Idk if you’re in the GroupMe but a lot of the conversation in the main one get very uncomfortably political/intense/aggressive (and I’m quite liberal to being with) and it concerned me at first. But the handful of Smith students and alumnae I know well are not at all like that. One other thing that helps is to remember that there tend to be maybe 10-15 dominant voices in these scenarios and that a vast majority of us are just chilling and rolling our eyes. The Facebook group, for example, has ~300 people, maybe half of the incoming class. And not all of those people have posted. I feel like the people who are vocal are a self-selective group as well - ie the more extreme ones will speak more dominantly. I hope this helps - also I hope this doesn’t scare you away from smith because most of the ladies I’ve interacted with have been very nice and interesting people!