My only class meets Mondays and Wednesdays, so today means nothing special to me, except that all of these kids are milling about campus, livening up the atmosphere. I saw a girl in the hallway just now, mincing about atop three-inch stiletto heels. Now, I can rock stilettos for a party, but school? School in Fairbanks? Sorry, but no. This kid is either going to drop out and move back to her out-of-state home within a few weeks, despondent over the lack of shopping opportunities in Fairbanks, or change her fashion approach very quickly! I can say from personal experience that dress shoes + ice = a very, very bad idea.
In other news, free food! There are tables with cookies and coffee and popcorn lining the hallways! Yay! UAF is such a friendly school like that. Neither Berkeley nor SCU ever passed out food on the first day of classes! They don't do end of semester cookouts either! I wonder if all of those tiny little liberal arts colleges in small towns that you've never heard of are super-duper friendly. It seems like they would be. On the other hand, they might also be racist/sexist/fill-in-the-blank-est. I wouldn't want to go much smaller than UAF.
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I went to one of those small midwestern liberal arts colleges that you've never heard of (Lawrence in Wisconsin), and yes - it was really friendly. 4-year college, population about 1200, and more than 90% lived on campus. There weren't any TAs, class sizes rarely exceeded 30, and we could walk across campus in 7 or 8 minutes. 4 if we were hurrying. It was a nice experience, and very very different from a big university.
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