You Know You're A Smithie When.... (encore)

Momwaitingfornew
Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:36:06 +0000

For me, to be honest, one of the reasons I picked Smith was because it seemed to be a really accepting environment.



I maintain that this social acceptance of a variety of backgrounds translates into lively discourse, both in and out of the classroom. If you take a couple of thousand of bright women who care about one another, quirks and all, then you have the basis for a compassionate, intellectually-innovative, and engaged student body. From open minds come great thoughts. Obviously, Smith’s environment (or Wesleyan’s, for that matter) is not the only kind of atmosphere that educates students to a high level, but I do believe it is partially responsible for the independent-minded women who graduate from Smith.