The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.
Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.
Most schools, the football players are kind of the kings in school.
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.
Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.
Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community.
