what makes swarthmore special

dchow08
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:28:50 +0000

I kind of agree with number 1, but if you’ve ever experienced eating at Sharples, you’ll know that it’s not quite like being treated as a family. Some people don’t like congregating at one place at the same time, because the lines (like the lunch line today) are ridiculously long, unless you get there pretty much before 12:30 pm. Right after 12:30 pm the line gets ridiculous. If students want to meet up with their friends, they’d schedule a time on their own. But I guess you get a bit of the sense that you’re part of a community that eats together.

The shuttles are great, but I get the feeling that student drivers would not be so nice, caring, and thoughtful to give students free rides if they weren’t getting paid themselves. People don’t volunteer to drive other students around for a long time–it’s part of their job.