Perhaps I should have added after the word “skewed” the words “by your unhappy experience at a place whose educational culture you were not suited for.” No shame in that. But hating a place isn’t a good perspective from which to describe it, much less improve it.
And what’s with praising Reed and St. John’s? If you hated Chicago you would have loathed with a deep and unmitigated passion either of those places. But there’s really no school you won’t praise if it will help you score a point against your alma mater. I doubt I’m the only one here baffled by your varying positions. There is really only one constant.