Anonymous wrote:OMG. I am the OP and I understand that SOME PEOPLE LIKE RURAL AREAS.
I was asking why because I was curious to see the reasons people gave. I did not post, "Gee, I am stumped. I would only live in a city." This is DCUM at its hyper-defensive finest!!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You have your whole life to work in a city.
And, you have your whole life to live in a podunk town! One that has no tertiary care hospital, no south Indian food, no retail store where you can actually try on the boots before you buy, no theater and no museum with European art.
How many days per semester were you in the hospital?
Was responding to “you have your WHOLE LIFE” to live in a city. True. You also have your “whole life” to live in an isolated rural town. You’re not giving up anything by skipping the isolated tiny town thing from ages 18-21.
Anonymous wrote:I also wonder about the professors at some of these schools. Are they fine with long careers there or do they try to get out? I can understand a few years but many of these schools are in small places that get cold and dark too.
.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You have your whole life to work in a city.
And, you have your whole life to live in a podunk town! One that has no tertiary care hospital, no south Indian food, no retail store where you can actually try on the boots before you buy, no theater and no museum with European art.
How many days per semester were you in the hospital?
Was responding to “you have your WHOLE LIFE” to live in a city. True. You also have your “whole life” to live in an isolated rural town. You’re not giving up anything by skipping the isolated tiny town thing from ages 18-21.
But you might miss something by forgoing the chance to be in the tight community forged in four years of undergrad in a small college in a rural town.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You have your whole life to work in a city.
And, you have your whole life to live in a podunk town! One that has no tertiary care hospital, no south Indian food, no retail store where you can actually try on the boots before you buy, no theater and no museum with European art.
How many days per semester were you in the hospital?
Was responding to “you have your WHOLE LIFE” to live in a city. True. You also have your “whole life” to live in an isolated rural town. You’re not giving up anything by skipping the isolated tiny town thing from ages 18-21.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You have your whole life to work in a city.
And, you have your whole life to live in a podunk town! One that has no tertiary care hospital, no south Indian food, no retail store where you can actually try on the boots before you buy, no theater and no museum with European art.
How many days per semester were you in the hospital?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Speaking personally, I liked the isolation and small setting of my SLAC. Not having much to do off campus meant I was constantly investing in my life on campus.
As just one example: when I wanted a cup of coffee, and the only place to go was the student cafe, I was investing my time in the student baristas with whom I’d chatter, in the friends and classmates I ran into there, in the small, serendipitous conversations I had along the path there and back.
It was like that again and again. Tiny deposits in campus life that I didn’t even realize I was making, but that cumulatively added up, and at a certain point started paying dividends.
When you wanted a snack, did you go over to the widow McGillicuddy’s place to see of she was cooling a freshly baked apple pie on the kitchen window’s sill?
Anonymous wrote:Speaking personally, I liked the isolation and small setting of my SLAC. Not having much to do off campus meant I was constantly investing in my life on campus.
As just one example: when I wanted a cup of coffee, and the only place to go was the student cafe, I was investing my time in the student baristas with whom I’d chatter, in the friends and classmates I ran into there, in the small, serendipitous conversations I had along the path there and back.
It was like that again and again. Tiny deposits in campus life that I didn’t even realize I was making, but that cumulatively added up, and at a certain point started paying dividends.
Anonymous wrote:Some lovely schools are in distant locations, from Bates and Bowdoin to Grinnell and Oberlin.
Why go to a school like this if you could get into a comparable school with access to more resources? I'm not being snarky. I am genuinely curious about the appeal.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Being from an urban area, I wanted a change and graduated from a rural college. Loved it! Was a peaceful, low crime, nurturing environment with lots of campus activities and instruction from actual professors instead of teaching assistants.
Let's not confuse the thread. You went to a very specific type of rural college...there are hundreds if not thousands of small, rural colleges that are just regional colleges with declining student populations and underfunded programs.
Rural college does not automatically = Williams. In fact the Top SLACs are the exception in terms of the profile of the average small, rural college.
Look at the original post: "Some lovely schools are in distant locations, from Bates and Bowdoin to Grinnell and Oberlin.
Why go to a school like this if you could get into a comparable school with access to more resources? I'm not being snarky. I am genuinely curious about the appeal."
The question was not about the average college.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Being from an urban area, I wanted a change and graduated from a rural college. Loved it! Was a peaceful, low crime, nurturing environment with lots of campus activities and instruction from actual professors instead of teaching assistants.
Let's not confuse the thread. You went to a very specific type of rural college...there are hundreds if not thousands of small, rural colleges that are just regional colleges with declining student populations and underfunded programs.
Rural college does not automatically = Williams. In fact the Top SLACs are the exception in terms of the profile of the average small, rural college.