<p>so after i heard about the juicy campus colgate scandal...i went to that trash site and looked around...are many kids at colgate actually like the people on that website? i know that every school has bad eggs, but some of that stuff was ridiculous. is the gossip scene on campus underground or is this like middle school 2.0?</p>
<p>JBou. I'm not sure what website you're talking about, but from your description, goodness NO! On Mondays everyone asks each other how their weekend was because they DONT already know; YES, Colgate is not a huge school therefore you will see people at any event you go to, and you will not see some people without making an effort (which can really stink, but in many respects, because of people's daily routines, your paths don't cross.) Personnally, I think it's a great size, and people know/don't know my business depending on what I share. - Gossip around campus is whatever you make it out to be. THIS IS NOT HIGHSCHOOL! if you blab about your weekend's events, then yes of course the word will go around; but that "line of privacy" is up to you.</p>
<p>Juicy Campus is basically the internet equivalent of the comments scrawled on the walls of the bathroom at any high school. It represents a small minority of students gossiping - there's actually very few replies to each post and they appear to be from the same small group of students - so I really don't think they're in any way representative. Posts also are usually intended to anger or titillate, so they're a bit... over the top. I'm not exactly an avid reader of the site, so I can't say definitively, but apparently most other schools are far worse than Colgate. I've never heard anyone actually SAY anything like what's posted on there - anonymity plays a large role in people posting things they would NEVER say to anyone face-to-face. Perhaps it's a different story for others, but I never experienced any of the vicious gossip, clique-ish behavior or superficial nastiness that you see in high school.</p>
<p>The scandal last year was blown way out of proportion - everyone talks about the horrible threat made without reading the actual text - the poster in question was asking what would happen IF he made a threat (they removed the post, but it was along the lines of "I wonder if the school would shut down IF I said that I was going to kill people"), not actually stating that he was intending to or ever would commit violence. It was still not the smartest thing to post given events at Virginia Tech and other schools, but I'm saddened that people might read articles about it and think that a Colgate student was unhappy enough to legitimately want to cause harm to other students or that these events are in any way normal here.</p>
<p>In terms of the social scene at Colgate, I think it's the perfect size. It's small enough that you run into a dozen people you know walking to class, but big enough that you're still meeting cool new people in your class year to hang out with when you're a senior. It's small enough that you can easily just go hang out with your friend casually, but big enough that there's plenty to do and it's not always the same old group of people.</p>
<p>alright that's reassuring...my high school is really chill and nongossipy (which is why i said middle school 2.0) and i would hate to re-enter an environment like that for college</p>
<p>seriously, it's not huge at colgate. i had heard of it vaguely before the scandal but never visited the site until afterwards. While some things were hilarious, they were all just ridiculous comments that appear to be part of a certain group of people living in a certain dorm. But, that's probably just a way of procrasination for some students. Nothing serious.</p>
<p>Gossips around the campus are more like... non-existent haha. They just die pretty fast.</p>
<p>thanks...i sent in my early decision last night</p>