"Whenever I thought about college, I imagined this sort of setting.  

My financial aid package is excellent.  Some Universities give you a huge aid package the first year and it decreases as you continue through school.  That doesn't happen here. 

     The opportunities are endless.  It's defining me, my participation in all these groups. Not only is it helping my social life, but it's helping my time management."

At first it was overwhelming, but after that first week you get used to it and you find out what you have to do to make it.

Colgate does a good job in making sure that stutdents are equipped with everything they need to do the best that they can.

At first I felt isolated, but you meet different people and you just come together.  Then when you come back in the fall and see your friends you feel more comfortable.  You feel a part of something. 

The advantage of coming to a school like Colgate is that you become your own person.

The summer program highlighted how important it is to become educated.  It eased my transition coming from a city into a rural area.   Basically, an environment that's very alien turns into a very familiar place, almost as good as home.

Beyond any sort of price that you have to pay financially or even emotionally, the experiences here enrich you.  You get to know people that I don't think you could experience at a bigger university.  I don't think that you would get the one-on-one attention with professors that you do here.

 I wanted to see if chemistry was for me.   The SMI summer program gave me that chance.  In the end, I decided on math.   Summer was a good orientation.

We have an excellent mentoring program -- whatever major you choose, you get paired with a professor.  My professor keeps me up with what's going on and sends me e-mail: "Look into this," "Are you interested in that?"

As an SMI student you get to come back after second year and work on research in whatever department you choose.  I chose research in chemistry/environmental studies.  We went to the Adirondack Mountains, tested soil, and worked one-on-one.  You get paid for the research.

I don't see why anyone wouldn't jump to accept this offer.  You meet so many new people.

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"Teaching in the OUS program is gratifying in a distinctive way because it's an opportunity to work with students for whom the experience of studying philosophy is an introduction to a whole family of intellectual projects that may well go on for the rest of their lives, and it is a setting in which it is clear to me that the students intend to appreciate the course as a way of developing a whole range of intellectual skills, that they will benefit from in whatever other studies and activities they undertake. It's a great opportunity for students to quickly and intensively challenge themselves to become more sophisticated and autonomous thinkers."

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