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The camel is the best mascot ever. The food is.. not great, but theres lots of variety.

I love conn.

Freshman year I lived in the substance-free dorm, which if you really do want to be free from drinking and drugs is a fine place to live. I think it's important to add though, that I've lived in two different dorms after that (one on South Campus with quite the party reputation) and I was never really bothered by people drinking or smoking. Every once in a while you get some loud peope down the hall, but it's really nothing. So if you're considering sub-free, my advice would be to live in a regular dorm. Honestly. Freshman year when I wasn't comfortable drinking, I never felt pressured to do so by any of my friends or even people that I met at parties. My sub-free stage lasted until about October freshman year, but it was nice to have a quiet and clean place to come back to after going out with my friends. I guess you could run into problems with a roommate who smokes all the time or drinks every night of the week, but I would rather deal with that than the social consequences of living in the sub-free dorm. And by that I mean, you just don't meet a lot of people when you're not going out to parties and you're just hanging out in the sub-free dorm! I managed to make a bunch of friends outside of my dorm, but my one freshman year roommate had a lot of trouble doing this and I don't think she was as happy as she could have been. So that's my bit of advice for Conn housing assignments!

Summary: It's beautiful, as are the people, but it can get a little preppy and wealthy at times. Everyone finds their niche, and I personally love it, despite its shortcomings. Nowhere is perfect, you just have to find the place that blends with you the best, and then make it the best when you arrive.

You may have noticed at this point, I basically don't like anything about Connecticut College, but I do need to observe a few key positive things: there are a small subset of very talented, interesting, engaging people; there are occasional great class discussions; the campus is generally nice, even if the weather blows (literally and figuratively) all the damn time; both Harris and Cro have decent pizza. That being said, there is such a pervasive and depressing tone of intellectual apathy in everything on campus that I honestly feel that a) I learn more from hanging out with my friends at home than I do by going to most of my classes here, and b) on some days, I really do feel like I get stupider just by being here. (Also, my apologies for writing a series of answers to your questions instead of considered or pointed responses - I have quite a bit of busywork yet to complete tonight.)

It sucks here

not receptive to the needs of students at all, terrible attitude towards sexual assault victims

I wen to Bronx High School of Science, which is about 1,000 people bigger than this school. I wanted to completely immerse myself in an environment that was totally different from the one I grew up in. And Conn is that place. Although it took some adjusting, and there are still times I yearn for a more town/city oriented place, I know I am receiving a unique and very important education that will be beneficial to me for the rest of my life.