<p>I could give you the whole small school vs big school spiel but I’m guessing you’ve heard that one before. I probably wouldn’t have anything original to add if I went on and on about our small class sizes and blah blah blah. </p>
<p>Instead I’ll just answer you question, why Scripps? Because Scripps is a place you can live for four years and still wake up in the morning and say “I can believe I live here.” </p>
<p>My host on in her shoes day said that to me when I first visited the school and on almost everyday, even on HORRIBLE days, I would still have that same thought. Why? I don’t know, its not super quantifiable, but Scripps has a sort of dreamy quality. I think because it was the first time that I realized that I should be learning for myself, and not for other people, and not to get the grades. After working way too hard to pave my way through a poor high school in a town where most people don’t go on to higher education, I was at my wits end, fed up with dead end mentalities. Scripps really helped me discover that learning is about becoming the person you want to be by gaining knowledge about issues that are truly important, not information that will appear in multiple choice bubble letter format. </p>
<p>I am a science major so I took relatively few discussion-based courses, but I can tell you that the hype about core is real. I absolutely hated the masses of reading and opted to skim before class rather than read most of the time (which I wouldn’t really recommend but you gotta do what you gotta do!). Anyway, some of the conversations I had in those classes where the most thought provoking and eye opening I’ve ever experienced. There you are in a class full of girls who all have different backgrounds than you, but your commonality is Scripps and that you all worked hard to get where you are and you give a damn about your class because you don’t HAVE to show up. You also have an incredibly qualified professor leading the discussion making you really think about what you just said! Its just so great because the pressure is off, you’re not just talking to the teacher to kill time before they hand out work, nor are they lecturing you, the class is about the students. </p>
<p>I would choose Scripps for another, perhaps more important reason. That is, go there if you place equal value on life and school! It might sound like a silly thing to say, but I by far had the most fun jam packed action filled college experience of all my high school friends (but I’m sure I’m a little biased!). The social life here is just overflowing with things to do in such a small space. I’ve never before or after met people who were not only smart, but so good and life! People who push you to DO things, make you say, “hey, why shouldn’t I go surfing or to a concert this weekend? I’ll just be procrastinating studying if I don’t go!” This is really a go big or go home place where people don’t care so much if they fall on their butts, as long as they gave things a shot. Its just a place full of super motivated people who don’t put all their eggs into one academic basket. </p>
<p>I have many more things to stay about Scripps but I’ll save you the pain of reading any more of my ramblings for now! But I hope this is at least a little helpful!</p>