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Bennington College, One College Drive
Bennington, Vermont 05201-6003
800-833-6845 or 802-440-4312
admissions@bennington.edu

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Ask a Student (column 1)

  • Evan ’13

    “I never thought it would be possible to enjoy a Sonicburger so much at a rest stop in Paris, TX. You’ll also note that I opted for ice cream instead of a drink that day. This, I call living on the edge.”

  • Ben ’13

    I study how people's understandings of science affect their judgments and beliefs, and am especially interested in innovation in science education. Also, I can make climbing walls and sleep pretty soundly through a thunderstorm under a heap of leaves.

  • ava ’12

    “Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.” -Stephen Jay Gould, Evolutionary Theorist

  • Dmitri ’12

    I'm a student of many organizations. I’ve been involved with Spiritual Contemplative Life at Bennington, the Soccer team, Sage City Symphony, and I run Music Workshop. I'm a Music Discipline Co-Representative for the Student Educational Policies Committee, and I was a House Chair of Noyes last year.

  • ellie ’12

    I love the act of research: overwhelming, frustrating, and yet, incredibly exhilarating when it is a subject I’m truly interested in exploring.

Ask a Student (column 2)

  • Connie ’12

    I’m writing a television pilot for my senior project. It has everything: romance, adventure, comedy, and lots of corpses. Really uplifting stuff.

  • janiele ’12

    If I'm not running around trying to get two billion things done, or studying the relationship between developed and developing countries, international aid and cultural perspectives on development, I'm usually in the kitchen or trying to wean myself off of Orangina.

  • Ezra ’12

    A bunch of us formed a human pyramid facing a double rainbow when we first got to Bennington.

  • india ’12

    Want to know about Bennington’s awesome history? Ask me. I helped form the historical committee at Bennington. We've been researching the history of the college –going through archives of photos, posters, and documents on campus and have uncovered some really cool Bennington stories!

  • kevin ’13

    I study in the social science discipline—political economy with a side of philosophy, public action for dessert, served with a glass of Spanish. Surprisingly my plan did not pass, but I am working on narrowing it down.

Ask a Student (column 3)

  • Jan-Erik ’14

    I wouldn't want to be at the center of everything—the margins are so much more interesting.

  • jason ’13

    I love public radio!

  • jessieh ’13

    This is a picture of Finderprints, a play I wrote that was produced as part of the Bennington Playwrights’ Festival last spring.

  • riley ’13

    I have Big Dreams that involve going to Seattle, playing music, eating fruit and fish from the markets, petting dogs… the usual.

  • seth ’13

    I live in Bingham House (a colonial). I am a vegetarian, and there's nothing I love more than discussing movies, music, and books with friends.

  • Emily ’12

    In my sophomore year, I facilitated the formation of an improvisation dance ensemble.  We met weekly to explore the development of improvisational forms influenced by the structuring principles of landscape images. I’m interested in learning about how groups of people self-organize or develop an ensemble consciousness.