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On Bard College
"could you please tell me the ups and downs of Bard cuz I swear to effing god I can't live in Scotland anymore"
So I have a friend I met at Massart during Saturday studio classes. She's very French, even though she grew up in NYC (but went to a French school. and basically whenever I think anyone looks like her or moves like her they turn out to be French.) She sent this message (it's longer) to me and a freshman who she knows here. So I attempted to describe Bard. It was hard. We talk a lot about being at Bard here, yet somehow everything ended up being rather scattered. Because we complain, but that's not all we mean. Here was my attempt (she asked about cliquishness and drugs. She's considering Bard and Sarah Lawrence)
Yeah, I was going to say similar things that
a) I'm pretty sure I've seen you Lily (which goes to show you how small the school is, I guess)
b) It's finals week which is why we are not responding properly (took two today, had paper due monday, had another exam saturday. typical college stuff, though I suppose the fact that a few of my friends have 20 page papers is a bit less typical and more Bard is into writing and analysis. It doesn't sound as bad here as it does to the rest of the world, because you get good at it)
c) I like it here a ton. Like, people complain. It's really easy to complain. People here are good at complaining.
They complain about:
-hipsters (but they are hipsters)
-pretentiousness
-food
-crazy profs.
-dorms
-registration
Secretly they:
-get sucked into the aesthetic. The weed. The pea-coats. The Raybans. the fact that you can wear anything.
-like the intellectualism. they pretend not to care and kinda care about coming off as blaze, but some people just are passionate in a very awesome way.
-no, they don't like the food.
-the brilliant interesting professors that are hidden and not-so-hidden all over. The worst professor I've had used to teach at Harvard. Many want to be called by their first name, the classes are generally small (not as small as we would like, but enough for discussion to be important) Student feedback is important too, i.e. they are hiring bio and psych professors right now and they are having the candidates give lectures and have students respond and evaluate the candidates. Other than the Harvard Prof, my experience with the faculty has been very positive. Like, I'm taking a history of sociological thought class right now, which is not something I'm really interested in. But it was still a class worth taking because the professor was so good (and I didn't even realize how good he was until halfway through when it hit me-I think a similar thing happened to some other students who realized how well they where understanding some pretty dense texts)
One of the profs I have next semester is described as such on ratemyprofessor: "I'd take knitting with Cole if she taught it. "
general breakdown: academics are important, sports are not.
More here.
"could you please tell me the ups and downs of Bard cuz I swear to effing god I can't live in Scotland anymore"
So I have a friend I met at Massart during Saturday studio classes. She's very French, even though she grew up in NYC (but went to a French school. and basically whenever I think anyone looks like her or moves like her they turn out to be French.) She sent this message (it's longer) to me and a freshman who she knows here. So I attempted to describe Bard. It was hard. We talk a lot about being at Bard here, yet somehow everything ended up being rather scattered. Because we complain, but that's not all we mean. Here was my attempt (she asked about cliquishness and drugs. She's considering Bard and Sarah Lawrence)
Yeah, I was going to say similar things that
a) I'm pretty sure I've seen you Lily (which goes to show you how small the school is, I guess)
b) It's finals week which is why we are not responding properly (took two today, had paper due monday, had another exam saturday. typical college stuff, though I suppose the fact that a few of my friends have 20 page papers is a bit less typical and more Bard is into writing and analysis. It doesn't sound as bad here as it does to the rest of the world, because you get good at it)
c) I like it here a ton. Like, people complain. It's really easy to complain. People here are good at complaining.
They complain about:
-hipsters (but they are hipsters)
-pretentiousness
-food
-crazy profs.
-dorms
-registration
Secretly they:
-get sucked into the aesthetic. The weed. The pea-coats. The Raybans. the fact that you can wear anything.
-like the intellectualism. they pretend not to care and kinda care about coming off as blaze, but some people just are passionate in a very awesome way.
-no, they don't like the food.
-the brilliant interesting professors that are hidden and not-so-hidden all over. The worst professor I've had used to teach at Harvard. Many want to be called by their first name, the classes are generally small (not as small as we would like, but enough for discussion to be important) Student feedback is important too, i.e. they are hiring bio and psych professors right now and they are having the candidates give lectures and have students respond and evaluate the candidates. Other than the Harvard Prof, my experience with the faculty has been very positive. Like, I'm taking a history of sociological thought class right now, which is not something I'm really interested in. But it was still a class worth taking because the professor was so good (and I didn't even realize how good he was until halfway through when it hit me-I think a similar thing happened to some other students who realized how well they where understanding some pretty dense texts)
One of the profs I have next semester is described as such on ratemyprofessor: "I'd take knitting with Cole if she taught it. "
general breakdown: academics are important, sports are not.
More here.
