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[be_themoon]

 oh god oh god I can't decide what college to go to I can't deciiiiiiiiiide

clearly I should read No Man's Land instead, this is a good life decision, amirite?

OH GOD KNOX OR KALAMAZOO 

I am incapable of making important decisions. 

*despair*

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[bedlamsbard]

It will work out! A guy I knew in high school wrote acceptances to both schools, then flipped a coin for which envelope he actually mailed. (I did not do this, but I made my decision based on the weather and the atmosphere on the campus.)

IT WILL ALL WORK OUT. *hug*

[be_themoon]

<333 aww, thanks. Oh man, it seems coin flipping is popular. A;LKSHDG

IT WILL, IT WILL. I have faith! *hugs*

[bedlamsbard]

I did not flip a coin, as I SUCK at flipping coins. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried over whether I should go to Wellesley or Tulane while my mother explained the situation to my grandmother over the phone in Japanese.

So yeah. Panicking! Totally normal. In all honesty, though, I think you're an awesome person and it will work out for you wherever you choose to go; I don't know anything about either of those two schools, but you have struck me as a person who is very adaptable and fully capable of making herself happy and contented wherever you go.

[be_themoon]

awww, you are so kind. I am pretty sure I can be happy at either college, I think. I just am so bad at making actual important decisions, I worry incessantly - actually, locking myself in the bathroom sounds totally reasonable right now.

[bedlamsbard]

I am always in favor of locking one's self in the bathroom (as long as you can get out again!) and taking a few minutes to just breathe. (It might just be me, but for whatever reason bathrooms are a really good place for that. I suspect it's a gendered thing, as well. Er, I will stop talking about bathrooms now.)

random stranger input

[lotesse]

um, in from my network - I did my undergrad at Knox, as did my partner, and we both loved it like crazy. fwiw.

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[be_themoon]

aww, thanks! it was very kind of you to tell me this.

If you don't mind me asking, what would you say were some of your favorite things about it? Is there anything that you had difficulty with?

Re: random stranger input

[lotesse]

Yeah, sure! I was in English and Women's Studies, my partner was in Writing. Um, I guess the best thing about Knox was just how bloody nice all the profs were. I transferred in as a sophomore after a year at St. John's College, and I was dual enrolled all through high school, so my transcripts and knowledge base were definitely weird. But the profs there were willing to give me so much as an individual student - by junior year I was doing teaching work and getting permission to write totally nonstandard papers and basically being supported in doing my own thing. When I needed work the year after graduation, the head of the Women's Studies dept offered to keep me on and let me co-teach with her for a year as a postbac.

Knox is super snuggly - the profs, the student body, all of it. No one's going to try to freak you out or be mean. At the same time, they're not going to push you to the max either - but if you can do that yourself, they'll help you forever. But I can see how it might be easy to float a bit, if one could.

Galesburg is not the easiest place to live. It's isolated, freezing cold, and economically depressed. But the cost of living is nil, and the trains run up to the city every day.

I'm in grad school now, and thinking back - Knox didn't necessarily prepare me for the professional world as well as it might have done, but it gave me three years of feeling completely safe and exploring new ideas. I might have come out more polished from an ivy-league school, but I don't know that I would have come out as whole, if that makes sense.

Um, feel free to ask me questions? I totally don't mind rambling, as shd be obvious!

Re: random stranger input

[be_themoon]

This is so nice of you, thank you! I haven't been able to talk to many people who have actually been at Knox, just a few students while I was there.

I only really have three other questions - What's the study abroad program like, is it good? Are there good internship opportunities? I've been told yes, but haven't gotten any 'actually experienced it/had friends who have' responses.

And something odds are you don't know, but is there rock climbing nearby?

Re: random stranger input

[lotesse]

The study abroad program is good - I didn't myself, but we had people all over the place. I've heard that Kalamazoo is a major study-abroad place, and I think Knox might not be quiiiite as good - but it's decent!

Internships are a major yes. They can hook you up.

And I totally have no idea about rock climbing, though I wouldn't expect there to be much, since it's in such an expanse of prairie flat!