<p>Hi. I'm thinking of CMC these days but I'm unfamiliar with the college. </p>
<p>Some things I know:
-Very leadership-based
-Competitive to get in
-Students are hard-drinkers and partiers
-Campus isn't THAT attractive </p>
<p>(Note: The last 2 i got it from cmcstudents.com. I know it's old so I don't rely heavily on the info from it)</p>
<p>Anything you want to add? Campus aesthetics (from what i've seen, it's not very beautiful), qualitiy of food, campus feeling, social life, student attitudes, etc etc ??</p>
<p>Why are you thinking of CMC if you are unfamiliar with the college? </p>
<p>The last 3 are true, for sure. I am not sure I could comment on the first one without comparative experience. All of this leadership stuff is BS, IMO: while one can do the leadership stuff, it seems completely ridiculous because we obviously can't ALL be leaders. Maybe 10% of us can be leaders. the rest have to be loyal lackeys at any given point in our career. we start out any job in the lower rungs and work our way up. i guess we can lead by following, or lead by example, but this to me seems synomyous with leading by following orders, i.e. not being a leader...</p>
<p>Anyway, yeah, those options are all available to you. Plenty of starkies and the like just work needlessly long hours while never drinking or having fun, instead attending youth groups with dreamy-eyed young men with folk guitars, beards and an intense love for the lord. Lots of more liver-damaging options available, as well. Claremont has many flavors of kool-aid for you to drink. </p>
<p>The campus is as ugly as sin. I graduated this may, and I never much cared. If I really wanted to impress an off campus visitor or something I would just walk them through Pomona or Scripps and not tell them I switched. Then again, I lived for a semester at Pitzer, so I think the barrack-atmosphere of CMC got to me after a while. It would be a silly criterion to choose a school, though. You have to spend most of your time on the inside of buildings, where CMC rocks, since the chairs are comfy and the education is excellent. Just because I dont feel like I am in a Gilmore Girls episode (one was filmed in pomona) when i am between classes does not mean my education was somehow lacking. </p>
<p>College is what you make of it. You can completely slack at CMC, or Princeton, or CSULB, or you can take a rigorous courseload with professors like Haley and Pitney. Haley's assignments, and Andrews, a Scripps security studies profs are the only ones in college I genuinely felt like they had made me grow as a person and an academic by completing them. You make your own experience, but it is very easy to prosper at Claremont if you want to pursue your interests. I am writing this post at 2 AM after dancing in Sorrento; my sneior thesis and related research has turned into about $4000 in travel grants and scholarship and housing expenses, for research and for a European Studies summer school scholarship I won. I don't think I would have had those opportunities or chance for development at many other places...</p>