Middlebury College

This is a review of the summer intensive language program in Spanish: Awesome. Great dedicated instructors and such interesting students! I had a blast here learning Spanish, living in Spanish, partying in Spanish, you even speak Spanish when you order food in the cafeteria and talk to the people in the dorm, also while swimming nearby in the beautiful Vermont rivers and lakes. A really great program.

Not for me. Left after freshman year. Missed NYC.

Best decision I made. Best investment my parents made. ;-) Go here if you can handle the weather. (I loved the snow. But I didn’t have to shovel it.) The education is phenomenal because you are in small classrooms with the professors. Not teaching assistants. Professors. I took a class with the Provost with only 12 people. I had gone to a public highschool as opposed to Choate or Chapin and didn’t really know how to write. The Provost rewrote my entire mid-​term paper on the Boxer Rebellion. He was amazing. (He also gave me a passing grade bless his heart.) And a giant in his field who wanted to teach how to write. And he did. I just went back for my 20 year reunion and the professors and the President of the College (who had been a prof of mine) remembered my name. Midd kids are probably among the few who don’t have a problem thinking of profs who can write references for them for grad school. You have a choice because you develop relationships with these professors over 4 years. And the students who go to Midd are super bright and curious … about the world, about other cultures, about the environment. I love checking in with my Middlebury friends because they are scattered around the world and are doing such a wide range of jobs from teachers to CEOs to top journalists to lawyers to investors to non-​profit leaders to top scientists. Such an interesting cross-​section. AND the network rocks. I’ve gotten most of my jobs via my Middlebury connections NOT my business school connections. Perks include great study abroad programs (want to learn Chinese, no problem. Arabic? Russian? no problem), their own ski bowl, a winter semester with fun classes. Go blue!

This is the college that keeps the town of Middlebury alive. With around 2,400 students, the college is well known for International Relations, Environmental Studies, and Languages. The rural school is ranked very highly as a leading liberal arts college in the Northeast. They own their own ski hill and golf course. Great education at a high price.
Oh, and it gets cold, just a little.
Midd on-​campus dining review: