Reed College Top Questions

This boy I met before I came to Reed told me that all Reedies were "ugly, stuck-up, boring" and "druggie burn-outs". He was an idiot, obviously.

Pink hair, tattoos, loves to debate the merits of Aristotle and Hannah Arendt over a NW microbrew, preferably in the basement of the Reed library at 3 a.m.

-Never leave the library -Drugs are everywhere -Socially awkward -Intellectually curious -Arrogant -We're all athiest bastards -We're all dirty commies

We spend all our time in the library. We're dirty, dreadlock wearing, pot smoking hippies. We're insular and weird. We gossip. We're senselessly devoted to our academic disciplines. We're out of touch with the world.

Dirty, Drug using, intelligent, not athletic, Jewish, White, Wealthy, need a haircut.

Stoners, Alternative, Smart (VERY!)

That they are incredibly brilliant and also incredibly into drugs. basically, that Reedies study hard and party harder. They are hippies, they are the future of the intellectual elite and the future of the free drug culture. The motto 'communism atheism and free-love' can sometimes be taken literally.

Reed students are incredibly smart. Reed students smoke a ton of weed and use whatever other drug is most available. Students are socially awkward and inept. Nudity is accepted on the Reed Campus. Students exude pretention and look down on non-reedies.

That we're shy, avoid eye-contact, and always feel guilty for not doing more school work.

One person I know described Reedies as "dizzingly fun and terrifyingly bright." Stereotypes include: vehemently liberal, at times pretentious & elite, intellectually curious, socially-minded, dogmatically unreligious. Reed is unfortunately (and inaccurately, in my opinion) associated with drugs -- but I don't think the prevalence of drug use is much greater than in other places. The college tends to stress health and safety in dealing with substance abuse rather than criminalization.