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As long as you're open minded and intellectually curious you'll fit in here. My hometown was incredibly close-minded and conservative, so it was a bit of a culture shock coming here, but now that I'm there I can't imagine spending the next four years anywhere else.

The food is SSSSSSOOOOO expensive.

Just because I didn't mention it before, the housing situation is great at Wesleyan. Over your four years here, you get to move up from a dorm to a program house to an apartment, and finally to a senior woodframe house. We students complain, but we really have it good.

i took the time to write how god fucking awful this place is. thankfully i have moved on and gotten jobs that are completely unrelated to my degree and use absolutely nothing that i "learned" in college.. what i am saying is, i have a fucking life, and i STILL took the time to write this shit in the hopes of sparing some poor soul a shitty decision to go to this fucking school. before you go to wesleyan, consider asking, and seeing if u can get a straight answer: what is the minority retention rate? what is the minority job placement rate? what the hell happened with the cross burning in 2003 and why was the kid able to sue his way back in? why did the only black dean "resign" after she expelled the kid who sued his way back in for burning the cross on foss hill? why is it so hard to get out of the excessively expensive meal plan? why is it so hard to get out of the excessively expensive housing plan? why do middletown residents hate wesleyan and wesleyan students so much? why is it that the public safety announcements only announce the race of "attackers and thieves" when the suspects are african american males? why is the school brochure covered with ethnic faces but when u get to campus theres all 10 of us on campus? why are the majority of ethnic students at wesleyan so fucking pissed all the time? why is malcolm x house no longer a safe space for students of color? why the fuck do white kids crash the qpoc (queer people of color) meetings? by what percentage does the tuition rise every year? (hint: when i entered it was 28k/yr.. when i graduated it was 52k/yr) why does the financial aid office refer you to sally mae, which has much higher interest rates than the rest of the market, and fail to inform you that wesleyan gets a kickback on the interest rate the same way a used car salesman does? why does wesleyan with hold your transcript after you have graduated if you still owe money to your student loans, which are independent of them? especially when you need the transcripts to apply for grants and scholarships that would allow you to pay the money you owe in the first place? seriously wtf. how many students know the names of the staff on campus? stop someone and ask them who so and so thats mopping the floor is named and see if they fucking know.. if they do ill give you my diploma! oh wait its useless and you cant even wipe ur ass with it either!

Not bad. The most important part, the academics, is a definite plus. The people are generally smart and interesting. The social scene is a bit of a let down. Not much independence is gained but still a pretty good college to attend.

lots of these kids are rich northeasterns but don't let that scare you! there's a niche for everyone here!

Fuck I'm almost done here and I have to say I've enjoyed my time here but I feel pretty much done with all this. I've made some of the closest friendships I've ever had here but at the same time people can be pretty insufferable sometimes. Don't go here if you don't want to be around people who question every single thing in society (and this is coming from a Philo major). I'm excepting a lot of liberal ideas here, which are the one thing people here are pretty dogmatic about, but in general people here can't just go with the flow and accept life the way that it is. I suppose that's the hallmark of what progressivism is, so if that's your bag this might be the perfect school for you. But I have to say people can definitely be dicks here. For instance a while back a guy wrote some relatively controversial Wespeaks that espoused some fairly conservative/libertarian/Ayn Rand-y/racially-questionable ideas. People disagreed with him, of course, and that's fine, I disagreed with him, too. But then he was at this party this one time and the hosts were like, "You need to leave." What the shit is that?! Wesleyan is supposed to be about tolerance and diversity, but people here think they can make an exception for people who break their notions of tolerance and diversity. But unfortunately this means a lot of average Americans would feel unwelcome here because their opinions would be considered intolerant by the average Wesleyanite. Now I don't want to say that this is everybody here, but the lunatic fringe is definitely pretty prevalent here and it's creepy.

Some students have been jumped, some property damage occurs, some students don't really care, the administration occasionally lacks simple logic in dealing with particular student issues (usually academic, but also social), but where none of this ever could possibly happen--go there, and good luck. Wesleyan is a safe and vibrant place, if that is a concern, and the academics are particularly excellent.

Housing and food are both pretty great.

kids aren't that hardcore about drugs here. there's the stigma that Wes has for being a pot school, and sure it's available almost whenever and wherever you want, but it doesn't take away from social life. it's not intimidating and kids are aggressive about it - it's there if you want it but there's no judgement passed for accepting or declining. drinking is still pretty big, but also not necessary to have a good time or to make friends. other drugs are available but at least slightly more underground. either way, i don't consider myself a big user and i don't think it affects my lifestyle much at all