<p>What kind of school would be most fitting for the erratic type of individual? I'm talking about the type of person who acts like he/she is 5, even though they he or she is actually 17. The "random" type of personality.</p>
<p>every college</p>
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<p>Brown</p>
<p>MIT</p>
<p>Caltech (sort of) - large N is sort of important because you’d want to hang out with people who are REALLY unusual, and the more people, the more REALLY unusual ones you can hang out with</p>
<p>Reed</p>
<p>University of Washington (just hang out with the early entrance kids - there are a couple of normal college students who go into the EEP lounge too, as well as a few EEPers who’ve held out for a really long time)</p>
<p>maybe Chicago and Berkeley</p>
<p>basically, EXTREMELY liberal colleges and nerdy science colleges (NOT engineering though - engineers are more conservative)</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure this thread was intended for me :p</p>
<p>Reed .</p>
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<p>Also, it depends if you want to maintain your innocence</p>
<p>if you want to be weird AND maintain your innocence (by staying free of drugs and sex), then only MIT, Caltech (Avery House) and UWashington (early entrance program) work</p>
<p>if you don’t care about it, then the others work too.</p>
<p>probubly any college in cali. i think the salty ocean air makes everyone there a little goofy.</p>
<p>Not UCLA, that’s for sure. A big reason why I left and am transferring out is because I couldn’t find many people at all with common interests, intellectual and eccentric passions, or interestingly quirky personalities.</p>
<p>As for colleges I’ve heard that do have “weird” people :p, I’d say University of Chicago, Reed, maybe Berkeley (though that rep seems to be dwindling), Santa Cruz, Brown, Sarah Lawrence, Bard, Vassar, NYU, most art schools…</p>
<p>everyone at UCLA is exceedingly normal</p>
<p>How is Berkeley’s rep dwindling?</p>
<p>And how are santa cruz kids weird? they smoke pot like hell, but is there anything else?</p>
<p>Does sarah lawrence even have guys in it? can all-girl schools really be that weird? all-in-all, girl weirdness usually pales in comparison to guy weirdness.</p>
<p>NYU is really pre-professional, and pre-professionals hate weird people…</p>
<p>How do you act like a 5 year old?</p>
<p>Since I don’t have much direct experience with these colleges, my reviews are based on what my friends at the schools have told me or what I’ve read, but:</p>
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<p>A lot of current students say that the “liberal, quirky, hippie” stereotype is not really true there anymore, though the city of Berkeley itself is still fairly eccentric. </p>
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<p>I’d say they fit into the “weird” category because of the large hipster and hippie populations, because my friends who go there say most students prefer intimate gatherings where they can sit around and philosophize rather than go to big parties, and because the residential college system can place students into interest groups.</p>
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<p>Sarah Lawrence is a coed school. There are more females than males, but there are definitely males there. And yes, women’s colleges can be weird. Smith is another great example of that.</p>
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<p>NYU has a huge artsy, quirky, hipster population. Tisch is one of the best film schools in the world, and a lot of the students there are focused on weird, experimental, independent filmmaking rather than the usual Hollywood fare. </p>
<p>But maybe I don’t get what kind of “weird” you’re talking about here…</p>
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<p>I don’t know if there’s a greater influx from SoCal than there used to be, but none of the people from my high school that ended up there really fit the Berkeley stereotype.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I know a guy that went there.</p>
<p>LOL, I think I know the OP well enough to realize that he doesn’t care about hipsters or weed.</p>
<p>He’s more of the type who would fit in MIT/Caltech/Chicago weird.</p>
<p>How is Chicago weird though, anyways? is Chicago-type weirdness different from MIT/Caltech weirdness?</p>
<p>UofC has law students…I doubt Obama was lecturing weirdos, then again MIT has wharton law school, but most students are not business or law majors, unlike in UofC. </p>
<p>MIT Engineers are mad quirky, 
and deff the best spirit, though i wont argue with UCB, </p>
<p>and NYU is not weird…just boring</p>
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<p>Chicago students are mostly business/law majors?? I thought Chicago students were among the most intellectual in the nation (I know it’s changing now)</p>
<p>also, don’t business majors get drunk more, and do weird things while drunk?</p>
<p>Yeah, Berkeley’s the first that comes to mind.</p>
<p>UChicago prides itself on quirky intellectualism. They even advertise it 
MIT/CalTech weird is more Math/Science absent minded professor weird where as UChicago is more Classic Lit, Philosophy, theoretical sciences quirky (IDK how to explain it, its just a different type of nerd i guess)</p>
<p>I was walking into this thread prepared to wave Reed College around, but if you’re looking for a college where everybody acts like five year olds, go to any Ivy League.</p>
<p>5 year olds are overrated</p>
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There’s more than one now?</p>