<p>Poor tufts & wesleyan, spend a fortune without getting any results. =). It's like people who buy Bose. =).</p>
<p>Someone memo Bernanke, you can't just throw money at the problem.</p>
<p>Reverse Alphabetical Ranking:</p>
<p>Williams
Wesleyan
Tufts
Trinity
Middlebury
Hamilton
Conn Coll
Colby
Bowdoin
Bates
Amherst</p>
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Reverse Alphabetical Ranking:
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</p>
<p>LOL! </p>
<p>Closest to Middlebury, Vermont:</p>
<ol>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>
<p>Ha! Not even close!</p>
<p>Ranking of mascot weight and size (in kilograms):</p>
<p>Tufts - Jumbos (Huge elephant)
Williams - Ephs...aka Purple Cows (LOL)
Bowdoin - Polar Bears (Big bear)
Connecticut -Camels (self explanatory)
Colby - Mules (An ass)
Middlebury - Panthers (Big cat)</p>
<p>Bates - Bobcats (Large cat)
Trinity - Bantams (Chicken)
Wesleyan - Cardinals (Small bird)</p>
<p>^ What about the Ephs or the Lord Jeffs?</p>
<p>I bet Lord Jeff weighed more than a Chicken!</p>
<p>I forgot to add those.</p>
<p>Amherst - Lord Jeff (high ranking officer in the army)
Hamilton - Continentals (18th century US soldier)</p>
<p>Relation to my family:
1. Williams (S1)
2. Middlebury (S2)
3. Amherst (friend's son goes to Umass)</p>
<p>Tufts - $131,000,000
Wesleyan - $8,036,000
Williams - $3,459,000
Amherst - $2,725,000</p>
<p>(I think you forgot Smith.)</p>
<p>"rank the nescac" =)</p>
<p>Eph is actuallly a Ephraim Williams (a soldier) and the Cardinal of Wesleyan is not a bird - probably both weigh about the same as Lord Jeff.</p>
<p>It took the reverse alphabetical ranking to get Trinity out of last place in every category. They're the Mississippi of the NESCAC. (Although they would rank first in a listing of squash programs.)</p>
<p>haha the weight of mascots might be my favorite ranking ever.</p>
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<p>Eph is actuallly a Ephraim Williams (a soldier) and the Cardinal of Wesleyan is not a bird - probably both weigh about the same as Lord Jeff.<</p>
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<p>No, it is a bird. Methodists have bishops, not Cardinals.</p>
<p>"Amherst - Lord Jeff (high ranking officer in the army)"</p>
<p>Only one celebrates an early practitioner of genocide. (The College is actually named after the town; only secondarily after the murderer.)</p>
<p>Can you imagine calling a sports team "the Eichmanns"? :o</p>
<p>NESCAC Ranking by
Driving Mileage To
Nearest Starbucks</p>
<p>0.4 Amherst
1.0 Tufts
1.3 Bowdoin
1.3 Colby
1.9 Trinity
2.0 Bates
3.9 Conn Coll
6.9 Hamilton
8.5 Wesleyan
17.3 Williams
33.2 Middlebury</p>
<p>Oh, that was a goodie. :p</p>
<p>I think that Wesleyan is the real shocker here. I can understand the absence of Starbucks in the immediate vicinity of Middebury VT, Williamstown MA, or Clinton NY, but what's up with Middletown CT? Doesn't Middletown seem like a good place to put a coffeeshop?</p>
<p>That's 'cause there are three Dunkin Donuts in Middletown, and the coffee is better.</p>
<p>The Starbucks nearest Hamilton and Williams aren't traditional stand-alone coffeehouses. The one nearest Hamilton is actually in a New York Thruway rest area, and the one nearest Williams is actually in a Target department store. </p>
<p>The distances to the nearest "real" Starbucks from these schools would be even greater. But you get the idea.</p>
<p>Distance to the Ocean</p>
<p>Bowdoin
Connecticut
Tufts
Wesleyan
Bates
Colby
Amherst
Hamilton
Williams
Middlebury</p>
<p>(I think)</p>