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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am procrastinating at work and will therefore weigh in on this ridiculously juvenile thread. I am an Amherst alum who has been to Notre Dame home football games for the past three years to humor my ND-alum father and see Midwestern family members who are ND alums or "subway alumni".

I loved Amherst. I loved getting to know so many of my classmates and feeling part of a community. I loved the amazing opportunities to try new sports and activities. I loved exploring Western Massachusetts. I loved hanging out with friends in our dorm rooms joking around. We went to see each other's sports game (club and varsity). There are high school teams with more serious football programs than Amherst had, and I appreciated that football didn't suck up all the oxygen for sports except for the elderly alums. And there were plenty of parties and drinking which honestly were not my favorite parts of college.

Notre Dame also seems like a great place to go to school because it is so residential and has such great school spirit. But holy heck, it seems homogenous. The football games are relatively fun (boiling in the sun not so much), but I just don't get my jollies from watching football in general. I'd rather be playing sports myself. If you ask my dad what his favorite part of his college experience was, it was a winning football season. And that just seems weird to me. My favorite parts of college were the things I did - my club sports, my varsity sport, my activities, hanging out with friends. I guess this all lies in where you draw your energy.[/quote]

THIS all day. My DC is applying to a SLAC because he doesn't want to be at a spectator school, he'd rather be the one playing and doing.[/quote]

Um… you know the larger schools have vibrant club and intramural sports in addition to their “spectator sports” - right?  It’s not either or the way some of you very black and white thinkers imagine.   :roll: 
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