<p>According to The Huffington Post (my fav Internet Newspaper), guess which esteemed institution of higher learning is on the list of the top 10 Hipster schools? Yeah, baby.</p>
<p>Top</a> 10 HIPSTER Schools</p>
<p>Cute article. I know the guy in the photo they published - one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and not what I’d call a hipster…</p>
<p>What’s interesting is how they defined “hipster.”</p>
<p>I thought it was a dopey list - filled with incorrect and/or obsolete stereotypes and on a par with that silly Gawker’s list of the “most annoying liberal arts colleges” - in which Wesleyan was the “winner.” Having spent the day at UC Berkeley at CalDay recently, I can vouch for the fact that its hippy days are long over…it was about as hip as Stanford (perish the thought!) but more economically diverse. It’s filled with serious students - very conventionally, if casually dressed. The folks in the trees in the photo were not students. Probably Brown is more like Oberlin these days than UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Isn’t that the list that categorized Oberlin as one of the “limousine liberal” schools? I thought that rankings was funny. </p>
<p>By the way Mamenyu, you decry Berkeley being described as “hippy,” but the ranking isn’t about hippie schools. It’s about “hipster” schools, a different classification. I agree that Berkeley is far away from its hippie days, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t “hipster,” in accordance with the definition given in the article. </p>
<p>Anyway, I find most of these lists to be stupid fun. :)</p>
<p>Cal is not hipster these days either. You’d be amazed at how wholesome everyone looks! I saw nary a tattoo or piercing all day, in any part of the campus (I didn’t venture to Telegraph Ave). Maybe the hipsters don’t come out during the day.</p>