<p>I’ve reread your posts a few times, myself. And the more I’ve read them, the more conscious I have become of the dichotomy you have set up, despite your protests to the contrary. The queer hipster, “weird” in your words, set against the relaxed and happy and normal people you encounter on your second visit. And then the first guide, the girl with the mohawk, set against the “clean cut collegiate types” who are better suited to lead around middle class moms.<br>
That said, I do know what you mean about fit and looking for a place your kid will be comfortable. I do appreciate that. But you’ve touched, perhaps unwittingly, a sensitive chord here, because there are those who would like to make Wesleyan, in a search of further selectivity and an eye on that endowment, a little more like its old rivals Williams and Amherst. Yet Wesleyan seems to be thriving on blurring the lines between the weird and the normal–your words not mine, but adequate to make the point.</p>