Reed College

Date: Sep 11 2000
Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time)
While there are a lot of individuals screaming with joy to be "Reedies" I'm not exactly thrilled about it. I actually had a demeaning experience due to the nature of the professors in my department. I felt that I received no support and was actually somewhat ostracized merely because of an incident in which a professor blatantly lied to me and then threatened to take me to the school's judicial board for discovering his lie. I found that while Reed College is a "liberal arts" school, it is not so liberal in the sense that there is an underlying attitude that if you do not agree with the professors in their approach, you will not get as much academic attention and support. There is not as much room for differing ideas as one would expect. The school has an overlying attitude of arrogance that disgusted me and still does. The challenge of the school's academic rigor definitely helped me grow, but I believe its approach is narrow minded. I've heard the same response from other "Reedies". There are many students that leave this place as heroin and coke addicts -this says a lot in itself. For all its intellectual glamour, there is a whole other side to the individual that is swept under the carpet at this institution.