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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did my undergrad there in the early 90s. Not premed. It’s not a school with a lot of hand holding but that was fine with me. I have nothing to compare it to but I went to plenty of parties, had interesting friends , smoked weed, the usual college stuff. And while Baltimore gets a bad rap the Charles Village area where most students live is great ( and so much nicer now!). It’s certainly not for everyone, it’s culture is pretty pre-professional, but it certainly wasn’t miserable.[/quote]
Are you me?  Had the same experience in the 90s. I have a fondness for the quirkiness that is JHU experience of and Baltimore. [/quote]

The three of us probably know each other because I read this and thought...same. Except I attended mid-to-late 90s.

I will say that it is an excessively nerdy school full of very earnest people. The pressure is real there, but I thrived on it. I liked the fact that I could smoke some weed, drink and party on weekends and not get crap for spending the rest of my time at the library on weekends studying because that's what everyone else was doing. Hopkins people are very quirky and like to think out of the box. I think the people who hate it do not like the intense academic environment of the place. It is for real really, really hard but I had a fantastic, rigorous education with professors who really cared and knew my name. I also loved that, as an elite university, I lived in the dorms with so many different kinds of people: NBA player's kid, a volunteer firefighter, the winner of teen jeopardy, a rich Chevy Chase girl (new for me, I thought that was an actor), and so much more.

Other than STEM, the most popular major is International Relations, which is very well-regarded. I did well for myself post-Hopkins and rode the name for a good decade, getting great jobs at big-name places before really establishing my professional reputation. I loved my time at Hopkins and still have a group of close friends from my Hopkins days who I consider life-long friends. [/quote]

NP here.  I'm older than you all.  I was an undergrad in the mid-80's.  But I worked for Hopkins Hospital for almost 6 years after graduation, so I stayed in Charles Village until the early 90's and I have a few friends from the couple of clubs that I occasionally participated in after I graduated (Bridge Club and HopSFA), so I know some students from the early 90's.

My friends and I did enjoy our time at Hopkins.  It was academically a grind, but most students found a niche with friends who they hung out with.  I've still got a decent connection with a number of my Hopkins friends who have moved around the country.  The one key thing I know is that the majority of friends who actually matriculated from JHU seem to have done well.  Even those of us who did not go on and pursue postgraduate degrees.  [/quote]

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