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| Quite Bright | This college is wonderful!! The feeling of community here is amazing. I've made wonderful friends, especially in my dorm. There is a lot of work, but people still find time to do fun things like build igloos, play sardines, play quidditch, and watch movies. There are lots of parties that happen on the weekends, but if thats not your thing, there's always plenty of other stuff to do as well. The campus is beautiful. Even though its winter (and I'm from southern California), I still think the location could not be better. The food here is amazing, too, by the way. The surrounding town is small but very cute. It has a great Co-op, a grocery store, a couple of all-purpose stores, and some Vermont-souvenir type places, as well as some fun restaurants and a bar, all within easy walking distance. As for the students, there are a few who are rich/entitled, but they definitely do not dominate the campus. I'd say that a lot if not most of the student body at any given time is wearing jeans and a t-shirt/sweatshirt. Just about everyone I've met is welcoming and friendly, usually some amazing hidden talent. The first year seminar programs is awesome, as is outdoor orientation. All of my professors knew my name the first week, and were always available to help. | Education Quality: A+, Useful Schoolwork: A |  | | |
| | Jan 24 2010 | 1st Year Female --
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| Not so bright | The mountains are beautiful and idyllic, and they function perfectly as an ironic contrast to the horror that you will find within Middlebury College. The winters are colder than Antarctica and they last until, well, summer. Middlebury boasts of encouraging campus community through a commons system, and institutional diversity (flatulence!) but the townies are about the only morally decent individuals you will encounter. Middlebury students are close-minded, pretentious and socially graceless. They exist in their own fairy tale where everyone is a rich WASP (White Ango-Saxon Protestant) from a gated community. RACISM runs wild on this campus the likes of which you'd expect to find in a small southern town. If there is an ism that you can think of, Middlebury College has a full stock of it! Every campus has its share of sexual and racial intolerance, but Middlebury College takes it to another level. The campus atmosphere feels like an Arthur Miller play; the small New England community with its share of hypocrisies and witch hunts. I am surprised that public stonings are not offered as a winter sport, alongside skiing. The students are too hung up on frivolous concerns and they lose sight of the intellectual purpose of this institution. Needless to say, it is not an academic environment. I have met many people who have been sought out and victimized like a fox hunt by other students. Are you looking for support against your attackers on this minutely small campus? Nice try, sucker. The administration (swindling rat bastards!) offers virtually no protection for victims of harassment (all kinds, even sexual). The administration BLAMES THE VICTIM for the harassment. I know it's hard to believe in this day and age, but it is the degrading reality of this place. Even the Guidance department is a haven for guilt and brainwashing. That is the reason why many students who have been victimized on this campus do not come forward to the administration, which treats THEM as the perpetrators of the crime. The administration's attitude is, 'well what did you expect? You chose to come here and now you'll simply have to suffer.' You get the impression that they simply don't care, and they deny what is happening in order to avoid controversy that could potentially tarnish the school's image. They sacrifice the psychological and, indeed, physical well-being of its students for this false image. That kind of apathy is unacceptable on a campus as small as this one. The fact that this school is highly selective and small is precisely why they SHOULD take an active interest in the student climate. The students here are truly VILE, and I wouldn't say these things lightly. Trust me, DO NOT waste your time on this Puritannical hellhole. There are too many good schools in the world to hurt yourself like this. Life is too short, and college shouldn't be medieval torture. Middlebury is overpriced (forty thousand a year and rising) and the academics are adequate at best. This school is so bad, you'll probably need therapy after you graduate. | | | | |
| | Nov 27 2009 | 1st Year Female --
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| Not so bright | Honestly, I am really sick of all of the negative comments calling the entire middlebury population snooty waspy kids. So you know the international scene has gotten significantly better in my dorm the minority to non minority is about 1:2. People aren't exclusive, my best friends here one is asian, one is an international from kenya, a guy from england, and several players on the football team. The only people I would warn against coming here are people who don't do anything outside of schoolwork. If you are on a team in any type of arts club or outdoors group.. even if u just go to the gym every once in a while or run, nearly everyone is open and accepting. Sure there are some preppy arrogant rich jerks, but what school doesn't have those? I mean lets be honest here its a prestigious college what do you expect?
And by the way the science department is amazing and our science building is the most contemporary, and largest, building in vermont. | Faculty Accessibility: A+, Education Quality: F | | | |
| | Dec 15 2008 | 1st Year Male --
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| Quite Bright | Having visited friends at countless schools, and having initially bitched about the social life, there is nowhere better to spend four years than at Middlebury. Midd does more than give you a degree and a high starting salary, it shapes you as a good person and surrounds you with lifelong friends. | Faculty Accessibility: A, Social Life: B+ | | | |
| | Aug 07 2008 | 4th Year Male --
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