Shimer, for those of you who succumbed to vile rumors thirty years ago (:>)) is actually not druggie -- anymor than any liberal school, I guess -- althought thirty years ago it may have been a bit advanced in experimentation. It actually offers a powerful music and classif academics curriculum combined with a very Socratic educational style -- those who have bene there swear by it on purely inellectual grounds, much like Spaw's philosphy degree.

Spaw, getting a degree in philosophy was really the only sensible thing to do at that age!! It was obvious to me, and it must have been to you, that people spend their whole lives trying to catch up missed credits in philosophy anyway, and if they learn to do it right early on, everything else follows more easily. Now, that makes sense, doesn't it?

Fellow B. Phil.,

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