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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore ranks #2 in happiness -- that settles it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/the-12-colleges-with-the-_n_1004430.html#s400924&title=12_University_of[/quote]

I knew this couldn't be right (because I graduated from Swarthmore in the '90s), and it's not. This is a measure of retention rates, i.e. how many sophomores come back after freshman year. These are committed, driven students who got into a great college, so of course they come back for their second year. I remember thinking the school wasn't right for me, but I was on a path and I was going to stay on that path because I was dedicated like that.

At the time I did not let my instincts steer me into transferring, but with the benefit of a few more decades of living, I can say that I spent those years feeling way too much pressure to study, write, and perform. I did all of those things well, but by the end I was completely burned out. Very little of it ended up mattering at all to my career success. My spouse went to a much more laid back state school and did very well and went on to a well known grad school, and has achieved far more. [/quote]

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