By the Numbers: The Class of 2012
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Late Valentine's Day at the Symposium
Today, jackdaws and magpies, the sages have gathered, to talk about love. To talk about love cut through with time. Crippled with the burden of the clocks of our ancestors, we stagger around in the daytimes, and maybe post some chocolates to the dorm next door by the tilting-upward of the next due dawn. In short: we know that we need it. And we don't know how to get it. Or, more specifically—when we don't know just when the getting's good.
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#1: 9/1/2008 at 10:01 a.m.
What is a gap year? Also, are the transfers also class of 2012...it seems they should be class of '11 or older. Thanks!
— Peter | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#2: 9/1/2008 at 3:01 p.m.
Gap year is the year students take after high school to pursue their interests -- extracurricular activities, volunteer work, etc. More popular among students in the UK.
— onnicha | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore
#3: 9/1/2008 at 3:18 p.m.
Some students apply for college and chose to defer enrollment. A gap year allows a student the opportunity to do other things (e.g.--study a year abroad) before starting college.
— yewande | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#4: 9/1/2008 at 4:12 p.m.
Peter, as one of the sixteen fabulous transfers (not sure what happened to the other two between early summer and orientation; in June I also initially heard 18), I can tell you that nine of us are in class of 2010 and seven of us are in 2011 (I'm in the latter). We were probably just included in this data because we're new students who were admitted for fall 2008 entrance like the class of 2012.
— Jeanie | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#5: 9/1/2008 at 10:21 p.m.
Thanks for the info, guys! I feel more enlightened =)
— Peter | Unregistered, Swarthmore