<p>From what I hear, both are excellent schools. I am interested in both of them, and am thinking applying Brown ED. I was just wondering how prevalent the drug life is at each of the schools. I like the feel of these "liberal arts" schools and understand the drugs that often come along with that feel. I am not against doing drugs but I would not want to attend a school where drugs are entrenched in the culture.
Which school would you say is better in this regard. Thanks</p>
<p>another tough (but, good) question. I think the biggest difference between Brown and Wesleyan is scale. Both are full of diverse mixtures of people, scenes, approaches to learning, etc. My sense is that at Brown you can pretty much pick a few close friends and screen out 90% of the rest of the university while doing what is important to you. At Wesleyan, the degrees of separation are a little looser. In other words, you may or may not go to every party every weekend, but chances are you’ll know someone who did – and, it’s natural to be curious about what happened. In fact, what is happening, what did happen, and what is going to happen at Wesleyan seems to be a constant subject of conversation whether or not you were a direct participant.</p>
<p>Drugs, especially, pot, will obviously be around both places. At Wesleyan, chances are you’ll know the person smoking it.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say drugs are “entrenched” in the culture at either school. They are definitely there, but won’t be everywhere if you don’t want it to be. For anything beyond alcohol and to some extent, weed, you will need to seek out drugs in order to find them. They will not necessarily find you. Your friends at Wesleyan may be more likely to smoke/drink simply because we are a smaller community, but by no means does that mean you have to partake, and you will certainly not be excluded by anyone because of your choices.</p>
<p>hey, yankeeman90! where hav you been?</p>
<p>you know… around. doin’ my thang.</p>