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>Did any of you ultrahip, supersmart Pynchonoids graduate from/attend/or 
>have
>a kid attending Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass? My daughter's first
>choice and me without a penny in the old college fund! Would love to hear
>any informed person's opinion of the place. Certainly seems to be filled
>with hyperbright people doing interesting and slightly
>off-the-usual-syllabus things, and strikes me as left of Brown, even.
>Comment?
>
>A couple of my friends went there. Emphasis on independent study, create
>your own major etc. Very creative environment in beautiful western
>Massachusetts.
>
I've had friends and classmates who'd gone there started there ended up 
there, etc.  It's all the things you've heard, and herewritten above.  
Remember, though, that it can open floodgates of anti-efficiency with 
regards to time spent on study, inertia or intelligence or ambition or red 
herrings amounting to seven eight years of ringing year-completion bells 
(that's a ritual of the place for each year completed), often with people 
leaving off and returning if returning at all, or spinning out to other 
programs.

Let's say it's not necessarily conducive to neat and tidy programming of 
one's post secundary school years.

But some of most cherished almost mythically bright friends have gone there 
or on from there, mind you. Moreso than the more and more 
railroaded-to-perform-like-any-ol'IV brown.

But there are other places, too, that give this kind of self-secure 
searching environment.

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