I beg to differ
Written: Jan 21 '00 (Updated Mar 29 '08)
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Pros: Lots of different ideas and people
Cons: Not a cheap place to live and nowhere to park
The Bottom Line: If you can get in you ought to go
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| cddull's Full Review: University of Wisconsin-Madison |
While I didn't seem to manage to graduate from UW-Madison, I did spend the first three years of a long and illustrious college career there (grain of salt to be inserted here), and I must rise up to defend a university I fell in love with. I think the beauty of Madison is that no one fits in, the diversity is too great and the splinter groups are too numerous to have a dominant clique. Instead you can go into a niche or explore many of them, like me.
I am the person Poseidon spoke of in a sense. I am from Wisconsin but I didn't regard Madison as the "big city" even though it was a little bigger than my hometown of 800. I found a place where democracy still exists. No, not the garbage that passes for it in Washington but true Greek type democracy where people express there opinion loudly and forcefully. Yes people will disagree with you but that is the beauty of it, I found Madison to be a great place to debate the great thoughts that only insulated college students take seriously.
College is not supposed to be like the world of work, we have lifetimes to work. It should be a time to idealize and develop a sense of self. I really found out who I was in a lot of ways by finding out who I wasn't. I knew I wasn't a Young Republican, although I looked like one. I also knew I wasn't a party animal like many others. Only in Madison could an extremely conservative looking, incredibly liberal thinking, white feminist male find a nice large peer group. People are fond of saying that Madison is "50 square miles surrounded by reality." I guess my answer would be, isn't that exactly what you hoped it would be.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: Chad
Location: LaCrosse, WI
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