Transfers + Social Scene

shiny712
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:21:00 +0000

Hi! I’m a freshman at Swarthmore and I will tell you, you never stop making friends at Swat. I’m from Maryland so I was considering UMCP as well and I have a lot of friends there. I can understand the disconnect you’re having with other students. Personally I was turned off from CP because of its large size and the partying aspect.
I’ve met quite a few transfers at Swat and they seem to be getting along fine. There aren’t strong class divisions at Swarthmore. And I love the size–it’s so small, you keep running into people you’ve met before.

The “nerd” aspect was also one of the reasons I chose Swarthmore. There’s definitely a vibrant nerd community–we had weekly showings of Doctor Who.
Every Friday there are Nerf Gun wars.

And just to let you know how nerdy I am, I had to edit this post to take out all the Avengers references.

I can’t personally speak to the specifics of Poly Sci, Arabic and Islamic Studies (though one of my friends is taking a course on gender and sexuality in Islam and really enjoys it), but overall the academics are great. My biggest complaint has been the big intro classes (I’m not loving Bio 001), but I think that’s pretty much the same in all schools (and might speak more about me than the course itself). I love my first year seminar, though. So overall, highly positive on the academics.

tl;dr. Swarthmore is awesome and nerdy, teachers are cool, come here and be my friend!