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Schooled!

The Dig's guide to surviving college in Boston

By Dig Staff

FT_SchooledLG

Greetings, incoming college students!


Gosh. We’ve been anticipating your arrival with...well, let’s just say we’ve been anticipating your arrival. In any case, you’ve got a lot to learn–and mastering that tricky carb on your water pipe is just the beginning. You’ve got new surroundings to navigate, new foods to sample, new self-images to audition and new ways to give away your entire life story, just by being you.

Admittedly, we don’t really know anything about you–but we know enough. What follows is a rough guide to getting started with your new life in Boston, tailored to fit the average matriculants to seven of the area’s best schools. (We just sort of said “best” there. Not sure what that even means.) As a bonus, we’ve provided some alternative options for your education, just in case those hallowed halls grow harrowing.

Read on and enjoy! Best of luck with your educational endeavors. And most importantly, stay the hell away from us.

Love,
The Dig

[schooled] FT_HarvardSM

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Legacies, virtuosos, geniuses, people who blurt their SAT scores when they get drunk ... Harvard students take many forms--most of whom will let you know they're at Harvard with varying degrees of arrogance and guilt.

SHOP HERE


[schooled] FT_MITSM

MIT

Your acne scabs are nothing compared the emotional scars left from four years of being called "Dorkus Malorkus Supremus" in the halls of whatever hellhole high school you've escaped from. Now, Boston is your high school, the MIT campus is your science club, and you're certainly still a dork--but at least your mom won't yell at you for staying up all night watching Firefly.

SHOP HERE


[schooled] FT_BUSM

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

You're an asshole from North Jersey or Long Island or whatever. Nobody cares. And sorry about not getting into BC. But don't worry-nobody else here did, either.

EAT THIS


[schooled] FT_NortheasternSM

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

You think about your future a lot. You've known since day one that you wanted to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer or some dick who flips cars over every time the Pats win. You want to experience the world; meanwhile, the world might need some time before experiencing you.

SHOP HERE


[schooled] FT_MassArtSM

MASS ART

While you've likely spared your parents the burden of out-of-state tuition, you still broke their hearts by going to art school. It's cool. They get to look forward to years of explaining your major (fibers?) to their friends and supporting your impoverished ass come graduation. You have to suffer for your art, so why shouldn't they? (You'll notice that a lot of our recommendations send you out to Jamaica Plain, but let's face it-you're a lot happier living on the fringes of society anyway.)

SHOP HERE


[schooled] FT_BerkleeSM

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC

You're a misogynistic little puke now, but soon you'll find yourself surrounded by like-minded singer-songwriters who were equally unpopular in high school. So squeeze into those little black jeans and lace up your low-top All-Stars, because it's going to be a confusing culture fuck for the next however long you last in Berklee's gauntlet.

SHOP HERE


[schooled] FT_EmersonSM

EMERSON COLLEGE

You are a communicator, an artist, a poet, a filmmaker, a marketeer, an actor, a free spirit with your eyes on the prize. And now, you're an Emersonian--which means that soon, you will drive everyone on earth up the fucking wall with your bullshit. Your salutatorian speech at high school commencement was an interpretive dance. Your band printed T-shirts before you wrote any songs. Every moment of your life is a MySpace profile pic waiting to happen. The world is your proverbial browser.

SHOP HERE


[planb] FT_SchooledPlanBSM

NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL

Plan B!

Know how much the average piano tuner makes? Around $28,000 a year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development. Locksmiths do better, at about $29,000, and carpenters pull in about $35,000. Sure as hell beats waiting tables ($14,000 a year before tips) for the can't-stand-mainstream-college set, eh?


[planb] FT_SchooledPlanBSM

THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS

Plan B!

The Mass-Ave-facing façade of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts is a formidable sight: huge glass windows revealing classrooms of forward-facing desks with gleaming industrial kitchens. In addition to professional and certificate programs in chef and pastry curricula, the school hosts a bevy of recreational classes from "Techniques of Baking and Knife Skills" to "Winging It!" and "Stuff with Puff."


 



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