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[rivka]

U.S. News & World Report just published a profile of the college I attended. The article sounds very much like the Reed I knew, so despite the "whoa, look at these weirdos" tone, I guess they pretty much got it right.

Just saying.

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It was. Also very very hard, but it was a great place to get an education and to figure out who I was.

Some of the things I only appreciate in retrospect. When I was a student there was a huge uproar when the Dean of Students was quoted as saying "there are no adults on campus after five o'clock." The strong sentiment among the student body was that we all were adults, capable of handling out own affairs without having any representatives of the administration acting in loco parentis. I didn't really learn to appreciate that attitude until I got to the University of Iowa, where the student body mostly saw college as an extension of adolescence. That quote would've passed completely unnoticed at Iowa.

Yeah, the tuition is shocking. It's nearly doubled since I went there in 1990-94. The majority of students then got financial aid, and I'd assume that's still true.