February 9, 2001
Volume CXXXII, Number 15

    "The best four years of your life" rhetoric is a fundraising ploy to induce a nostalgia that will pry open the coffers of alumni. So forget it. Positive thinking is healthy, but over romanticizing, even mythologizing, the college experience, isn't.
     The notion of college as the culmination of our young lives is, while it pretends to be otherwise, a very depressing thought. Would we really want our existence to peak at age twenty-one?

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And the Survey Says . . . We're Hot

   In its neverending quest to assist forlorn high school students in choosing the "perfect" college, The Princeton Review has once again enlisted the help of current college students across the country. During the past week, Bowdoin students were offered the opportunity to complete a Princeton Review survey, which features questions such as: "How do students get along with the administration?" or the more personally invasive "How many people use cocaine at your school?"

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