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| Bright |
I learned more about writing in one month of newspaper work than I did in four years at Vassar.
Vassar is a finishing school. A fine place if you come from money, and are heading back into it. But woefully inadequate at preparing anyone else for a career.
I blanch at the homophobic comments by many of the negative reviewers. I was quite content with the social mileu at the time. But the academics were completely forgettable, and the facilities abysmal.
High school students: avoid Vassar like the plague. Unless you are so motivated that you would get something out of any school in the world, Vassar will only disappoint you. | Starting Job: Reporter, Preparedness: F, Reputation: F |  | |
| | Sep 22 2008 | Alumnus Male --
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| Quite Bright |
My first year at Vassar was pretty good. The campus is beautiful, the classes were challenging, I met a group of friendly people that I thought I would be friends with throughout and after college. The only concern that I had was that everyone reminded me someone of the unpopular kids at high school- super eccentric in the way they acted, dressed, and their views on life. The kids on the outskirts of the bell curve.
My final three years at Vassar were horrible. The best way to sum it up was that it was a complete 180 to the real world. The majority of people are gay or BUGS(bisexual until graduated), everyone seems to be a hippie, punk rocker, or gothic etc etc. This strange environment definitely took its toll on me. It was isolating and depressing. Additionally, I found that the students have a very NY city type of attitude, very cold, and self-absorbed.
In a place where its "hot" to wear striped tube socks and your hair in pigtails, your fashion sense and your perception of the world can become confused. Additionally, if you arn't an underweight prepubescent male, finding love on campus is non-existent. I went through 4 years with one date, and a kiss from my gay male dorm mate.
People are very weird at Vassar. Its not unusual to see someone with blue hair, peircings all over their body,clown makeup, or the like. Also being a laid back type of person, people were very uptight, passive aggresive, whiny, pretentious, and condescending.
The education quality at Vassar is excellent, and the faculty are wonderful, but I really wish that I had gone somewhere else. I could have saved myself from three years of serious depression. If you can find a way to get along in the environement, good for you,but don't bet on it if you value normalcy in anyway, shape or form. | Education Quality: A, Social Life: F | | | |
| | Feb 14 2007 | 4th Year Female --
Class 2003 | | Blog it!Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account:
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| Quite Bright | VASSAR SUCKS. I'm transferring, and i wouldn't recommend this school to Osama's niece. that bad. truly. Being straight and female, with mostly male friends in high school, i was disturbed to find that this school was filled with extremely competitive females. half the people i met quickly became coke addicts (or worse.) and everyone judged you if you didn't want to go dancing at the shitty ass "club" in the basement of the sandwhich shop. LAME. i didn't meet anyone who didn't judge my character by what shoes i was wearing. The student body is inactive, whiney, and above all BORING. everyone tries so hard to be different i realized that different is NOT getting wasted at room parties or going topless to "The Mug." i hope these suckers fail in the real world, because that's what happens when you don't take any math and spend half your day playing fashion police in the ACDC. | Campus Aesthetics: A, Social Life: F | | | |
| | Jul 18 2006 | 1st Year Female --
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