Terry
awkward, studious, intense, too intense, quaker matchbox, pyschedelic, worth the money, a good investment, nerdy, politically active
Jesse
Swarthmore students are very hard working.
Jerry
I guess we can split it up to three categories:
The Good: We're very close-knit and we're known for having excellent professor-student relationships. We're quirky and kind of off-beat.
The Bad: We're socially awkward, study all the time and there's nothing to do on campus.
The Ugly: We're ugly.
Susie
People think we're a bunch of unattractive hippies who spend all of their time studying and have no social life whatsoever.
Shelby
Stereotypes--the students are intense, ugly, socially incompetent, genuinely enthusiastic about academics, intellectual, concerned about the societally disenfranchised, ultra-liberal, unbathed. About the school itself: that it's socially stifling and at a remove from the larger world.
Sandy
That this place is intense, that the students are weird, and that the students are involved in social justice.
Tristan
nerdy, geeks, spend all the time studying.
rough school, lots of work
Nina
Work too much, A lot of work, getting good grades are difficult
Ed
over chiiled, mad hiped out, all down with their ebonics and such.
Peter
We are all really smart people that lack any form of social skills except being awkward. Instead of going out on the weekends, we stay in and study, for hours on end. The schools is looked at as one of most academically intense schools in the nation, but provides a true intellectual experience...knowledge is superficial, swarthmore provides the wisdom behind the knowledge.
Taylor
That we are nerds and do nothing but study.
Keith
Incredibly intellectually motivated, being nerds, being extremely involved and occasionally too busy (but having that be their own fault).
Jeffrey
Most of them are socially inept. I find that in many situations people do not know how to express their emotions casually or comfortably. Swarthmore students tend to let loose at parties and then become just as tight and uncomfortable as always the minute the alcohol passes out of their systems.
Corey
Nerdy, weird, intelligent, passionate.
Torry
Swatties are: ugly, geeky, nerdy, hermity, condescending, scrawny, liberal, stinky, potheads
Robin
We all are horribly bad looking, serious nerds, smart, never get out, are never sketchy, are always nice, and are very, very bad at sports.
Kim
Swatties are typically seen as socially awkward and nerdy.