...before you start with the stereotypes.

In three years or so, I got to study Shakespeare, the music dramas of Wagner, Surrealism, Romanticism, Poetry, Creative Writing, The Greeks, Post Modernism and Maori Mythology.

If you don't see anything you like you can get a faculty sponsor and do an individual contract. Then you could study whatever you want!

You should go to the "Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Seminar" just to see what seminar is all about. It's pretty cool.

And don't worry. Real students at Evergreen are always open minded. You can't learn otherwise.

There's good and bad there, same as any other college. For every professor you wish would have a meteor land on his head there's one you'd give your eyeteeth for an opportunity to take their class. For every student you wish the MIB would make disappear there's 100 you wouldn't have a problem with.

As someone already pointed out the college is Liberal Arts, but remember the second key word is "art". If you don't want to take one of their Masters Programs then it's your responsibility to map out what your goal is and how the classes you choose will get you there.

Now take a little while to find your way in here
Now take a little while to make your story clear.
Nick Drake

This world's crazy, give me the gun. -- P.J. Harvey

It is nice to hear from a broad group about TESC...  The place still strikes me as weird and ovely leftist, but like I say there are a couple of classes that have my attention.  If I keep reading their catalog, I will have to be calling my lawyer after all :-) 

The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea. -The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

....even some older ones that my parents/relatives tell. Two girlfriends that have gone, one might still be there. I remember going to their library for a class project in high school, and feeling very strange just being in the presence of some of the folks in that library.

Go at your own risk, and if you do decide to go, let us all know how it goes. Not my cup of tea though.

I'm a student at Evergreen, and I have to say that growing up in the Olympia/Lacey area it was the last place I wanted to go for college. It has such an intense reputation in the area, but I finally realized it was exactly what I was looking for education wise, and for 1/3 of the price!

Imagine my surprise when I met people coming from every state and country to 'brilliant Evergreen,' some of my close friends turned down ivy leagues, and other notable schools across the country because TESC has such a great reputation. It is constantly winning awards for its innovative structure, student engagement, etc. and more importantly delivers a fantastic education to its very unique and diverse population.

It natural to equate it with crazy hippies, because when you meet any group of people or walk across campus you aren't going to think 'wow, today i saw a girl wearing jeans reading a book on campus', or 'i met a really nice guy with brown hair studying chemistry' you always remember extremes... the guy with crazy dreads, the one studying that wild contract.

We have every type of person at Evergreen... but it prepares us for the real world! And we are offered an opportunity to explore any topic that piques our interest with the added bonus of the support of brilliant, challenging, and supportive staff! I do more homework, explore more subjects, have better relationships with professors, and more passion for learning than many of my friends in universities around the world.

Take a 16 credit program, design a contract, or take a 4 credit evening or weekend class! If you're unsure of where to start go to an academic fair where you can meet professors, staff, and students and find the class that best suits you! Or just stop by one of the concerts, speaker series, film festivals, community mtgs, athletic events that happen on any given night to break the ice!

who knows... you may end up having a lil geoduck pride!

Looks like I chose the wrong winter to take a break from keeping score out there.

Evergreen Joins OIT And EOU In NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Top 25

Evergreen's Menefee Named National Player Of The Week

from the sounds of it on a nightly basis, they have some killer parties!  Loud music, screaming, hollering, drums, cars burning out, police sirens...

If you don't like the classes, the parties afterwards sound like they're worth the cost of tuition!

LOL!

People living along the back side of Madera, right next to all the TESC housing are desperate to sell their houses because they can't even open their windows in the spring and summer from all the noise!

"A point of view is only a view from a point..." ~ Unknown

...science & found it great!

Good school for art also, and in general best if you are a self-starter--

--a great place to meet folks as well!

>enjoy<

Before the City of Olympia required drug testing for every employee - including seasonal - you could work with Evergreen students and draw your own conclusion.

To be fair, if you required drug testing near any American campus the employment pool is going to drop.

While most cities where campuses are located tend to resent the schools the most (the same with military bases), I'd say Evergreen students take it to the extreme (from my vantage point. From theirs it's passion, which is a good thing.)

Schools are represented by the most visible majority. While I have no doubt a great deal of people go to lecture and then go home, it's those who are out on Friday night that represent an organization.

This is why the military is huge on what you do in your free time. You're not just representing yourself when you're in public; you're representing your group.