The Evergreen State College Top Questions

It is okay to cycle through friends and not everyone needs to know your whole story.

That there isn't very much job diversity. If you're expecting to find work, you will, but it probably won't be work where you'll be passionate about. There is also not much on the dining menu for vegans or preople with allergens despite there being a deliberate "no worries" section in the school cafeteria.

Something that I wish I knew before coming to this school would be that there are no grades given. It has been difficult adjusting to the different academic setting here. Especially being the first generation at this school to write an academic statement. It feels good to be one of the first to try something new here, but at times overwhelming. There is nothing one can do but accept this type of education and make the best of it. Learn to adapt because not everywhere that one sets foot on will find to ones own pleasures satisfied.

I can't think of anything that wasn't covered, or answered, in the individual counseling, academic meetings and fairs before I started.

I knew what i needed to. An incomming student should know that they will be taking significant responcibility for their own education.

The more that you put into your education the more you get out of it.

How it can't really help you decide what you want to do.

There isn't anything that I wish I had known before I came to Evergreen. I researched the school and talked to a few people, and decided that it was the best fit for me.

I wish I would have known about ways in which I could have earlier focused my interests and utilized more specialized facilities to do so...

The woods grow mold on every single surface.