I’m joking of course about Amherst College–where I went to undergrad. The link is to the Daily Jolt which provides a fairly accurate picture of undergraduate life at the “College on the Hill”.
I have mixed feelings about my time there. Without question, AC provides one of the best liberal arts educations available in the US today. Each year, it’s a horse race between Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore for the number 1 ranking in the US News and World Report best liberal arts college category. On the other hand, as a native Angelino arriving in blue-blood Amherst Massachusetts, the culture shock never wore off–even after four years. I probably should have stayed in California.
What is interesting about Amherst, is how seriously it treats the undergraduate neuroscience major–that’s something we would do well to emulate here at Mason.
It’s also very interesting about how Amherst promotes from day one, an entirely rigorous approach to critical writing and analysis–skills that of course are very important in basic research
Jim
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