Reed College Top Questions

The social life is really lacking and stifling because of the Reed Bubble. Really think hard if you want to learn anything practical because so much of Reed is about theory. Unless Reed becomes more diverse in the future, if you're a minority of any sort, I'd reconsider.

Renn Fayre happens at the end of the year. It is a time of great madness and trippiness and possible bad decisions. No one should miss it.

My biggest complaint about Reed is it's Career Services opportunities. They offer you specific options in certain cities that they know about, but if you're like me and want to go home to Knoxville, Tennessee with an internship, they don't have much for you. They will help you edit your resume, offer you what they've got, and then tell you to use your own resources and social networking. In the end, I had to do most of the work myself.

Atheism! Communism! Free Love!

Reed can be a really hard place to make and maintain friends- but the ones that you do make will likely become really close to you as you carbon bond to each other for dear life over the years. It would be impossible to get through this school without at least one or two close friends to help you through the really tough times.

In my neuroscience lab, we are currently in the process of transplanting nigral stem cells into a subject with Parkinson's disease to assess the possibility of the disease's remission and even its cure. Just kidding.

If you know you will fit in here, then there is no better place in the world for you.