<p>Though I haven't yet visited Scripps, I agree with you mini... Smith has a very exciting, happening atmosphere. I think it has to do partly with the type of student that goes there (Smithies seemed to me to be very vocal, involved and spunky) and partly to do with the town of Northampton, which is something of a cultural mecca in the Pioneer Valley. Mini, what did you find the atmposphere to be like at Scripps?</p>