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- I'm Sam Clarke with Crimson Education
and we're here in Middlebury College
to ask some big questions.
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- What's the best thing about Middlebury?
- I'd say all the people are really helpful,
a lot of good teachers, just really helpful people,
a great community.
- I'd say the best thing about Middlebury
is the accessibility to the outdoors.
- I think the best thing about Middlebury is the students,
I like the students, people I hang out with,
they're a ton of funny, I guess,
so I enjoy school a lot because of that.
- The views. I think that it's a beautiful campus,
probably one of the most beautiful places
I have ever been in my life.
- The food's really good here,
but the professors are also really cool,
they get to know you, they like know your name
after the first week so it's not like a big school,
so it's nice.
- I would say the environment, just like where it is,
I really like coming to school somewhere so beautiful.
- This is definitely a cliche answer
but definitely the place. I'm from New York city,
it's something, the landscape, the fall colors,
the trees, the Vermont aura is something
you don't really get in New York
and I'm really glad I go to school here
because Vermont is truly one of a kind
and Middlebury is situated in this really amazing landscape
that is Vermont so I'm really grateful for that.
- What's the worst thing about Middlebury?
- The hyper-wealthy sort of
boarding school culture that exists here.
- The racism. It's really white.
People don't really think about how exclusive
this place is for certain persons or marginalized groups.
- It's still very homogenous in a lot of ways
and then we also as a community sometimes
don't do a good job of addressing that.
- The worst thing about Middlebury is probably
when it gets really really really cold
and windy and I don't want to put on my big boots
and I try to wear my slippers to walk to the dining hall
and I can't get up the hill.
- It's pretty cold.
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- I can't feel my hands, so..
- In a similar vein, I'd say the weather.
It can get really cold. So that's tough.
That's be the worst thing.
- I'm on crutches so it's very hilly,
a little tough to get around.
- Condolences.
- Thank you, thank you.
- And what do you typically do on weekends?
- Sometimes partying, sometimes going to the bars,
albeit there are only two so you can only
go to them so many times. And hanging out with friends.
So going on a brewery tour, maybe something like that,
going to Burlington occasionally,
so that's some of the things that I do
with my friends on the weekends.
- Sometimes I just stay in my dorm and cry (laughs)
no, I, um yeah, I think I just kickback with my friends,
I think that's the social scene round here
is really whack. With a capital 'H'
or 'W' or whatever letter there
has most emphasis in that. Yeah yeah.
- Usually have some practices or whatever with the team
and go and hang out with friends at night.
- When it was warmer we've been on a few hikes together,
camping and stuff.
- This school, there's a lot of concerts and stuff
so there's usually a lot to do.
- Last question, what did you write your
college application essays about?
- I wrote about cleaning other people's toilets.
Yeah, I was a maintenance man,
and talked about learning life lessons
from the guy I worked with.
- I believe I wrote it about spending a month
in Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania,
camping and building a trail
that stretched like two miles.
- I made a really big metaphor about life
that was really abstract about what I don't remember,
but it was dope apparently.
- I wrote mine about bringing Relay for Life
to my high school and kinda what I learned from that.
- I think I wrote it about my brother.
He has a host of different disabilities
and just the impact of that relationship
on my life, and what that has taught me.
- Something along the lines of
what I, something about hockey,
something like not unbelievably good, but...
- But here you are.
Hockey. Does the hockey team have a cheer?
- Um, no. I guess there's one.
It's like, "Cheer boy, cheer, Middlebury cheer,
"fight boy fight, fight for all your might,
"cheer boy, cheer, Middlebury cheer,
"it'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, hey hey."
- You really misled me by saying
that there's not a cheer. That was a full cheer.
- I mean, it's not like,
it's what they did back in the day, it's not like as...
- I see, okay okay , not as much in it.
It's sounds good, though. Anything to add?
- I got nothing amazing.
- Have a great day.
- Thank you. You too.
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- My lips don't work because it's so cold (laughs).
- He has gloves.
He has gloves and built-in earmuffs and a scarf.
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- I don't. Look at my knuckles. I can't...