Always on the lookout
Last semester I managed to visit a friend at Hampshire College, I think most famously known as the setting of Jarret’s Room on SNL, but more importantly it’s also an excellent liberal arts college in real life. My friend gave me and my roommate a campus tour.
d: It’s kind of weird here, I feel like I always need to be on the lookout.
me: You mean for people you know?
d: Yeah, then you have to say hi and it’s awkward to talk with them. It’s constant and kind of stresses me out.
me: At least people acknowledge each-other here. At my school if you see someone you know, the de-facto standard is to look at the ground and pretend they don’t exist.
Essentially his school is a complete polar opposite of the apathetic nerdy campus of RPI. A hippy college. I kind of liked it.