<p>I just wanted to know if anyone else feels this way…because it’s kind of not discussed at my school, except as a joke.
I go to a women’s college, and I do really like the school…but I can’t stand the fact that it’s not coed. I’m probably going to transfer because of it. I’ll miss this school, but sometimes it really makes me crazy. I feel like I’m suddenly so obsessed with boys, even I hardly though about guys in high school. Honestly, I don’t think it makes any sense to not have boys. There really isn’t anything to do for fun on campus, which I think works against the idea of empowering women; I don’t feel strong, I’m just boy crazy and bored. Anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>I thought most of the womens colleges had male counterparts nearby to socialize with?</p>
<p>I go to a coed school and am moving into all female housing next year. I am hoping it will be a good middle ground. I never even considered a womens college and now I regret it. Funny how these things work out.</p>
<p>I would never consider a women’s college. I honestly don’t see the point in them. How do you empower women by separating them from men?</p>
<p>“I don’t feel strong, I’m just boy crazy and bored.”
lmao, yeahh, i would never go to an all-women’s school. my dad suggested it once, but, like…oh, funny joke.</p>
<p>I’m a first year at an all-women’s college as well. It is safe to say that I hate it and will be transferring. I do love the school academically (sort of), but socially it’s unbearable. The experience has made me realize that women insist on their own oppression and will continue to perpetuate “the problem” as long as they hate themselves and their sisters.</p>
<p>I’m glad someone feels the same! I’m happy here for my freshman year, but I could never come back next year. I guess someday I’ll be able to look back on this and laugh at how strange women’s college is…but for now I just miss boys, haha!</p>
<p>“I would never consider a women’s college. I honestly don’t see the point in them. How do you empower women by separating them from men?”</p>
<p>Take a look at some of the CC men and you’ll understand where the idea that we’d be better off at different schools stems from. :P</p>
<p>I hate it when people say that boys our age are immature…obviously that is not true of all of them. You can’t make generalizations like that. There are girls who are immature or who we might want to be separated from too. To say that it is good to be separated from any one kind of person is, in my opinion, extremely short-sighted.</p>
<p>We’ll see what you think of their maturity when you get to your new school. :P</p>
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Can you elaborate?</p>
<p>I have had a similar experience at my women’s college: it confirmed so many female stereotypes that I did not believe in before. One example are the college’s hiring practices: some departments prefer to hire female faculty over male faculty in order to give us female role models. However, many of the female professors are less accomplished and less confident than their male colleagues. The message? Females are not meant to be professors. Thank you, women’s college!</p>
<p>Why did you choose a women’s college in the first place? (Honest question).</p>
<p>I personally never understood women’s colleges. I think feminists would be offended at the idea of an all male school. I might have understood their idea when it was mostly men able to go to college, but not now. I enjoy being able to easily interact with both men and women. I also think men/women have different viewpoints and its important to get work experience with various types of people, and eliminating 49% of the population would be a problem for me.</p>
<p>But I’ve never actually been (and hope to never go), though obviously the system works for many.</p>
<p>I’m actually hoping an all female law program springs up somewhere in the next couple years so I can take advantage of it. It’s not that I think an all womens environment is necessarily preferable, it’s just different. To me, it’s refreshing.</p>
<p>You might want to take a look at this thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/179414-why-all-womens-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/smith-college/179414-why-all-womens-schools.html</a></p>
<p>The thread starts out with parents who have become convinced about the benefits of an all-women’s college, but students (those who transferred out and those who did not) join in as well. </p>
<p>Just to illustrate one of the differences: I was told recently that Princeton has a task force to find out why a vast majority of the leadership positions on campus are held by male students. For some reason, men are being voted into leadership positions, and women are not. In contrast, at all-women colleges, every leadership position is held by women; there are more opportunities to hone those skills. </p>
<p>Some people wrongly believe that an all-women’s college makes it more difficult to interact with men, but the opposite has been proven true: in general, recent alumnae from those colleges have more self-confidence and are more outspoken in co-ed professional settings than their female peers who attended co-ed undergraduate institutions.</p>
<p>That does NOT mean that you cannot get self-confidence from a co-ed institution, or that women cannot be leaders in those settings. And all-women’s colleges have their disadvantages, just as any college does. </p>
<p>Above all, you should attend a college that you love. If you are unhappy, you should indeed transfer, no matter the reason.</p>
<p>I graduated from a women’s college about 8 years ago, and I completely loved my experience there. I didn’t always love it while I was a student there - it was a relatively small campus, most students lived on campus, and if you wanted to have male contact, you had to seek it out for yourself. </p>
<p>I think it depends on your priorities and what you want your college experience to be. If you want a college experience with boys and parties and fun, then you might have to transfer to find it. The women’s college I attended was incredibly academically rigorous (the library was always packed, even Friday nights) which does lend itself to a very stressful environment, however, I felt an overwhelming sense of community and like-mindedness with the students there. I was there to get the best education possible, to take advantage of all the opportunities on campus (all of which were dedicated to women 100%), knowing that if I stuck with it, I would be getting one of the best educational experiences in the world, and that it would serve me well in the future as my college is highly regarded in academia and would help me get into a superior graduate program.</p>
<p>Think about your future and what you want for yourself. Will the years of being in a women’s college environment make you yearn for the years of “typical college fun” you missed out on? Or will you be applying to graduate programs/law school/med school and wish that you had persevered?</p>
<p>I think women are fortunate to have such an avenue these days. It would be great if all-boys colleges/universities existed. That way, only serious academics who aren’t into partying and obsessed with sex and women would attend, promoting an intellectually driven culture.</p>
<p>^ Morehouse College and Wabash College are both all male. I feel like there are more, but those are two I know of.</p>
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Thank you. I’ll look into that.</p>
<p>The other mens colleges are:
Saint John’s University
Deep Springs College<br>
Hampden-Sydney College </p>
<p>Deep Springs is a very small, non-traditional school. Morehouse is a HBCU.</p>