Bennington College Top Questions

hippy, hipster, indie, nerdy, artsy, weird, liberal, progressive, independent, accepting, activists, motivated

Hippies, Yuppies, Rich Kids, Scenesters,

Hippies, Nudist, Snobs, Burn Outs

Hippy or hipsters. That is what everyone thinks Bennington is all about. Not so. There is a huge variety, and it does include the two categories listed above, but is not so exclusive. And it is this variety that makes Bennington such an interesting place to be.

The Bennington Student won't just dye their hair blue they will walk around in moomoos, wifebeaters, various Salvation Army clothing, pirate hats, missmatched earrings, mismatched socks, arrays of flannels, blue triangles drawn on their faces. Whoever is stranger, more passionate is cooler here. Yes a Bennington kid would pee out of a window to save water, Yes, a Bennington kid would have an interpretative dance instead of their plan of education. They do crappy paintings and expect them to change the world. There are several Bennington archetypes that exist beyond this. There's the Bennington girl, wild, promiscous, sometimes clingy, who the locals know on sight. She is forced with a maddening ratio of 1 boy to like every six girls, and thus develops standards that are very low and self-esteem that can be even lower. She often will walk around without a shirt on at parties. The stereotype of Bennington boys is that they are all sluts and will go whatever they can get. He will never be worthy of the girl and that they are very cocky because they get them anyways. Bennington boys are also not manly at all and usually miss that "grit" that makes a man a man.

People tend to think that Bennington students are weird hippies and hipsters who major in things like "under water basketweaving" and "movement". People also tend to think that the lack of tests, grades, and a defined structure make Bennington more like a summer camp than a real college.

Very artsy and hippie close bond to one another like family

Hippies. Hipsters. Post Modernists. Artsy. The college is known as a beautiful campus. Bennington girls are known to be in need of a man...or two. What is it they say? The odds are good and the goods are odd? It's a snow globe. It's small.

We are all artistic. We all run around naked. We are all vegan hippies. We all smoke pot. We're all lesbians.

People seem to think that Bennington is filled with a bunch of hippy-type people on crazy drugs.