Beloit College

Date: Oct 01 2003
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
The classes here are pretty great, I think. The small classes (most of mine have been around fifteen people) work wonderfully, and the professors are very helpful and down-to-earth.

The students are another matter. While most people here are friendly enough, this is unfortunately a homogenous campus and the "type" that dominates the student body here is not a particularly attractive one, in my opinion—most people I have met here are blindly- and condescendingly-liberal (note: I am a damn pinko liberal myself. I'm just not an ass about it. Or so I think.), self-consciously wacky, rich, white emo kids or hippies from either Chicago or Portland who are not nearly so smart as they think they are. Um, on the possibly-positive side, there are also many Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts here. A lot of them are genuinely nice and funny, but the male of the species tends to have embarassingly-poorly-maintained long hair. Lots of matted, tangled ponytails in Beloit. Uh, anyway…

The city of Beloit is a dump. It manages to combine the worst elements of urban and rural life (there's crime, the place is dirty, -AND- it's isolated with jack shit to do, unless a trip to the Angel Museum or Wal-Mart really excites you). I'm from a large city, and there are housing projects near my house that I feel safer walking the streets of at night than I do walking alone in Beloit—there is just nobody around. No wonder people here are so dazzled by Madison.