Comments on: Most Annoying?

By: hwc

hwc — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:37:27 +0000

“Annoying” in this context means lack of preppies.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:48:05 +0000

That should disqualify Wesleyan, Brown, I think Eugene Lang.

By: ben wolfson

ben wolfson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:11:14 +0000

The rules specify no schools with graduate programs. Thus: no Dartmouth.

By: SamChevre

SamChevre — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:55:48 +0000

Well, I don’t know what their criteria were, but I agree.

Swarthmore was on my shortlist of 5 colleges, of which I visited 4. I liked every college I visited except Swarthmore, which I would have had to have been paid to attend.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:42:05 +0000

â€œIsnâ€t that a girlâ€s school in upstate New York?â€ Probably due to The Mamas and The Papas. "When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore But she changed her mind one day Standing on the turnpike, thumb out to hitch hike Take her to New York right away."

By: withywindle

withywindle — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:21:36 +0000

“My college? I went to Swarthmore.”
“Isn’t that a girl’s school in upstate New York?”

At least somebody’s heard of us …

By: Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:54:35 +0000

The site seems to define annoying as being a self-righteous counter-cultural oasis rest-stop before becoming a middle-class drone who can’t shut up about how great their college was. I definitely don’t see my employer Middlebury fitting that bill (nor Swarthmore based on what I know), while my alma mater Oberlin is the paradigmatic case. The fact that it’s even a contest is because of east coast bias. Have they not seen the college motto? Oberlin: we invented self-righteousness!

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 23:25:09 +0000

Kenyon was on the original list.

By the FUCKING way, Gawker shitheads, the first-year course on the Japanese Tea Ceremony is a really great course.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:53:53 +0000

It is odd that Kenyon is not on the list; maybe they paid someone off.

By: Sdorn

Sdorn — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:52:27 +0000

I’m rather intrigued to find out that Swarthmore made the list, but Haverford and Bryn Mawr didn’t. There’s a saving grace to the Orthodox Quaker origins! Oh, wait, that’s beginning to sound annoying…

(HC ’87)