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i think any student that is considered 'abnormal' would feel out of place. i, myself, am a bit quirky and oftentimes feel disconnected from the campus. i think colby can foster abnormalities at time, since there are a lot of big personalities. a large portion of the population is very... homogenized. girls wear uggs, boys wear polos and tims. that's the way it is.

there are those groups on campus, but most are not very vocal which would be helpful for those that are kind of floundering with those issues.

-i honestly don't have many friends who are mixed race. well, i have asian and african-american friends, but basically all of them have lived in the US. i also have friends who identify with the LGBT group. -a person who doesn't have big dreams would feel out of place at colby. -most students wear jeans and a shirt/sweater, but some wear sweat pants, skirts, or leggings. -different types of students do not have that much interaction. -one table is the football team, one table is foreign exchange students, one is a group of loud freshmen girls, and the other is "crunchy" type kids. -most colby students are from suburbs of boston, or connecticut -most students come from upper middle class families -students are very politically active, and are predominantly left.

I do not have much experience with different types of groups at Colby. Many of my friends are similar to myself in background and socio-economic groups. I think a more radical student may feel out of place at Colby. Most students wear jeans and a t-shirt to class. The four different tables would be the jocks, the pretty girls, the hippies, and the Colby Outing Club. I do not know what financial backgrounds are most prevalent because I do not discuss money with many people. Nobody really talks about salaries in their futures.

you would feel out of place if you didnt like colby as much as everyone else. most students wear jeans to class. lots of students wear slippers around campus, until theres a bilzzard then you bust out the snow boots and winter jackets. and you have got to love the snow because so many of us ski ( i dont know what you do in the middle of maine winter if you dont ski). and as soon as the snow melts and the first day of spring arrives everyone lies out on the lawns doing work, tossing a frisbee, playing campus golf, and enjoying the sun that we have missed all winter. you get the best of both worlds, a beautiful fall, snow filled winter, and warm sunny spring. you gotta love seasons. four dining hall tables. well we have 3 dining halls which kinda automatically divides up some of the students. so there is the table for the football players, they always sit in the same place, and noone else would ever thing to sit there. how this came about i have no idea. but no one really cares cuz all anyone wants is to sit with their friends. there might be a table for the woodsman team after one of their events, and its always fun to watch them because they are loud and crazy. the other two tables would be pretty much the same, just different groups of friend eating a meal together. a lot of colby kids are from mass... the ISL has a big population at colby, and coming from the isl it was weird to realize how many people i had mutual friends with. my two roommates freshmen year were from north carolina and middle of nowhere new york state, and both knew no one and had know idea how i kind of knew or had something to talk about with so many people. so yes mass, new england in general. and then there are more than estimated that come from all over the country .

As the president of the Colby Muslim Group this year I found that it is quite difficult to practice our religion on a majority Christian campus. Halal foods are not provided in the dining hall, and the fact that there is no Muslim religious leader advising the Muslim Group (though there is a Catholic Priest and a Protestant Priest and a Rabbi) makes it complicated to practice our religion on campus without having to sacrifice some practices. The types of students that would feel out of place at Colby would include minority students from urban areas and religious students whether they be Muslim, Christian, Catholic or Jewish mainly because religion is not of importance to the majority of the students on campus.

I am from New Jersey and attended a high school that was only about 65{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} white, but I have a MUCH more diverse group of friends here at Colby. For my first two years at Colby, my best friends were a poor, Mormon Dominican and and a reasonably affluent, atheist Korean. Racists and other varieties of bigot would feel out of place at Colby. We had a comedian perform a show here a few years ago who made racist jokes, and absolutely no one laughed. Prejudice is the greatest taboo at Colby. Students, for the most part, do not dress up at Colby. It's too damn cold! Sweatshirts, jeans, and boots are the clothing articles of choice for most of the year.

Most Colby kids are from Massachusetts or somewhere in New England; surprisingly there is a pretty large contingent from the Washington, DC area as well. Most kids are pretty normal college students- kind of preppy, but will also wear sweatpants to class, and there are a number of more eccentric kids too. Colby is less preppy than my high school, but I went to a prep school in Massachusetts and my friends from public school and from other parts of the country felt the opposite. There are small groups of people who are very outspoken at Colby and they are very visible, but I think the average Colby kid is pretty apathetic. That's not to say that people don't know about world issues because many kids read the newspaper (just look around at breakfast), but when it comes to taking action there aren't tons of people. There is a lot of dialogue on campus about environmental issues, though, as one might expect.

the kids are really nice, except for the chem-free contingent. they seem to be withdrawn from the rest of the student body and unwilling to make friends with drinkers and often are seen as very judgemental of the rest of us, which leads to a strained relationship on campus.

I think most students feel welcome at Colby. They don't really dress up for class, maybe a t-shirt and jeans, but your really free to where whatever you want. Different students defiantly interact. Most students are from Mass., but we have students from all over the world. Students don't talk about how much they're earn. Students are generally democrats, and they are politically active.