I'm transferring ASAP

Introduction
If you're independent-minded and generally don't like to follow the crowd...you may hate it here. This is a small, limited environment that only truly works for the small community of people who fit perfectly into the Dickinson Mold (keep reading...)

Campus Life and Social Life
There are parties on campus, but after awhile, it's the same thing over and over. As for off-campus opportunities, the town is small, so you're basically looking at trips to the same handful of local bars (or "saloons" as they are sometimes called around here...if that gives you an idea if what you'll be dealing with). Advertisement
Academics
To start with the strange and specific gifts of Dickinson: the Russian department rocks. On the other end of the spectrum, the Spanish department is a joke, along with most other "popular" departments, including Business.

Student Body
The typical student here is a Jock or a Diva with far more money than he/she needs, far too much time in front of the mirror, and very little going on mentally beyond planning an outfit for the folliowing day (on the upside: lots of well-dressed kids here...) You'll meet one or two kids in the fray who are honest, open minded, independent, intelligent, etc. and those are the one or two kids you'll die to befriend/date/commiserate with. Or you'll get sick of pining for one or two tolerable people and transfer out, like me (bitter? me? no.)

In Closing...
The administration is a merry band of idiots. You are absolutely, in every sense of the term, a number to them, and they'll never let you forget it. Moreover, they are totally unashamed of their opportunism: an alarming number of kids here get away with murder thanks to Mom/Dad writing a check to the school to clear their name...sad but true, people. Sad but true.