Hampshire College Top Questions

Students are lazy and don't do anything on time. Tons of drugs, especially cigarettes and pot. Some acid. "Dirty Hippies."

The stereotype about Hampshire is that it's full of drug addicts, stoner, hippies, and hipsters.

There is an overall image of Hampshire students as unwashed, radical, pot-smoking, hippies who never do any work.

There are bound to be stereotypes about college students - we need simple concise ways to put people in boxes and try to understand them. Hampshire is no exception. The school was founded during the sixties in a rural area to complement the four existing schools in the area (Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and UMass). So the stereotype most common about Hampshire kids is that they are pot-smoking, tree hugging, do-nothing liberals who are not smart enough or motivated enough to get in/do the work anywhere else.

The top three stereotypes about Hampshire students would have to be that they are hippie pot heads that don't care about their school work.

Hampshire students are hippies. Everyone at Hampshire smokes weed and does drugs. Hampshire classes are easy because there are no grades, only evaluations. Hampshire has a strong community feel.

Hampshire College is quirky and unique, both in the nature of the curriculum and the students that the college attracts - thus, the stereotypes surrounding Hampshire are plentiful. Hampshire stereotypes include: no grades are given, no quizes/tests/exams are given, students don't choose a major, and all students smoke.

Hampshire students are often thought to be... ...drugged ...artistic ...politically active ...dirty ...socially concerned ...loud

Everyone is a hippie. Since we don't have tests, class isn't "real". Speaking of, you don't have to go to class. Everyone smokes a lot of pot. Hampshire Halloween is the shit.

Rich hippies/wanna-be hippies, potheads, people who didn't fit in in high school, PC students who over-analyze everything