Amy
yeah pretty much--everyone is really politically active and interested in a braod spectrum of issues.
Claire
The liberal stereotype is true. I think we like having a strange reputation, but are actually more normal than our image. As far as the awkward image, it is generally true, but I feel we are awkward in a friendly sort of way.
Brian
There are certainly some that embody this stereotype. but the array of student interests, backgrounds, ideologies and passions transcend an easy categorization
Stephanie
No. Macalester may have some people who are rich, and some who are liberal, and some who are awkward, but we're all pretty different. The one thing I would say we have in common is our nerdiness -- our passion to get up and do something.
Lauren
Only to the extent that you make them. For every student with wealthy East Coast parents, there are two who grew up in the same state with nothing. For every person who stops caring, there are two or three or ten who who still care, if a little more cautiously. People here all *have* something, cheezy as it sounds, that makes them want to face down the world and all its problems (yes, even the econ majors). And those stereotypes I mentioned, the rich white kid and the richer international student, equal in their naivety-turned-disdain? Really, they're a kind of self-deprecating joke, a way of laughing about and fearing the consequences of "new ivy" status.
Ellie
There's a politically active atmosphere at Mac, and I could probably count the number of vocal conservatives on one hand.
Nico
Not necessarily. Macalester students tend to vote democratic but there are some conservatives around. Mac students are not particularly odd in thought or action and most are not into mind-altering or other substances. To be perfectly honest, the average student is not a hippie in any way. And students are as involved as they want to be. There are plenty of opportunities for community involvement so its up to each student to determine their level of participation
Kate
the pot-smoking hippie one is. however, almost everyone here is an underachiever: everyone does the bare minimum to get by.
Scott
Yeah, for the most part -- other than the fact that we are all hippies (of course there is a fair share of these kind of kids running around)