Introduction to Connecticut College

If indeed there are ten thousands worlds for the choosing as Cormac McCarthy wrote in All the Pretty Horses, Connecticut College give you access to each of them. The opportunities are endless. Connecticut College students are their own breed-intelligent and inventive souls with a strong commitment to social justice. Fewer than 2,00 students from all parts of the world ( a surprisingly large majority from "outside of Boston") come together to partake in a four-year journey_academic, social, and personal transformations. Connecticut College is a highly competitive coeducational liberal arts college where the classes are like exotic lands of thought that you enter at your own will, the people will be your tour guides. With a tradition of shared governance, social activism, and an Honor Code, it promotes an academically strong socially conscious home base from which to embark on the inevitable adventures to follow beyond the undergraduate years.

Resting on what is referred to as " the hill" in historic New London, Connecticut, the picturesque campus is located halfway between New York City and Boston and overlooks the Long Island Sound. "What college is supposed to look like, " my father remarked the first time when stepped foot on the green. Our eyes widened to the casual gait of students moving from one class to another, tossing Frisbees across the green, and two dozen more students sitting under a blossom tree by the sun dial, engaged in what was their 2:30 P.M. Writing the Short story course. Yes, I felt, this is it.

Connecticut College is committed to empowering students to take charge of their own education;' the faculty works toi provide students with the necessary tools to implement their ideas. My experience with professors goes unmatched. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10-to-1, I never felt short of attention from professors! It is common for professors and faculty to host students to do everything from watching "Rosewood" and eating nachos, to sitting around a backyard picnic table discussing existentialism, or whether or not our D3 basketball team should make it to this years NCAA basketball tournament.

The Connecticut College education in a nutshell? That is the point: There is no nutshell. Each individual brings a different spark to the campus community. Because of this, there are infinite ways any one students can work to take advantage of oppourtunities such as international study, research with faculty, paid internships, self-designed studies, and community action. While the CC Experience may encompass a set of core values and ideals, opportunities, and experiences each serving as colors on a palette, no one student colors his or her canvas the same. This is the greatest part about CC-you can truly develop yourself as a scholar and as an individual.