Lafayette College

Date: Dec 29 2011
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
My experience as an Anthropology major will differ from that of an engineer's (they have it WAY worse), but if you're looking for a place with dedicated, appoachable, energetic and engaging professors (at least in the anthro/soc. department) that provide manageable, valuable work, then Lafayette is a great choice.

That being said, if you're looking for the fun, typical college experience, go somewhere else. ANYWHERE ELSE. I am member of the Greek community—which, yes, is necessary if you want any kind of social life at all—and I still say this place sucks. It might be the small campus size, or the buzzkill campus police, but parties here are essentially mediocre highschool gatherings you thought you'd never see again. It's like four years of dating an ex-girlfriend, only the ex girlfriend constantly leads you on at night and then gives you blue balls. It's basically four years of party blue balls. The idea of fun here is pretty lame; parties last about four hours (2 am at the latest) and tend to be hosted by either the greeks or the sports clubs, so you have to have an "in" or be involved in them to even know they exist. Forget about wandering the campus on a friday night knowing you'll be able to sniff out a party in twenty minutes. To attend a good party, or even just a party at that, you either have to be a greek, a freshman girl, a member of a sports team, or go to some lame dorm room party that will most likely be a gigantic waste of your evening. Oh, and you'll be partying with the same people all the time. Speaking of which, the greek system is really laid back, but hugely hierarchical, so get used to the fraternities wanting to party with delta gamma, pi phi, and kappa kappa gamma all the time. If I could describe the student body in fewer than ten words, the vocabulary "flavorless, closed-minded, artificial, suburban high school children" would probably be the most appropriate. That's 7 words. Oh, and identical. 8. However, they tour great here—it'll always be sunny when you decide to come exploring as a wide-eyed, hopeful, parent accompanied perspective, and you'll most likely spot all ten of the campus' black students.