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FactsSlang
- Arrête - Greek Virtue.
- Clevie - Students of local Cleveland High School.
- Commons - Bon Appetit’s restaurant/campus dining service.
- Cross Canyon - Across the canyon from the main campus.
- Dormie - Someone living in your dorm.
- Gray Center - The Gray Campus Center.
- Hauser Fundome - The library.
- Homer’s Hut - The bookstore’s nighttime convenience store.
- Kleos - Greek Household.
- New Reed - Reed today.
- Nutria - A big rat that comes out at night.
- ODB Bug - Big bugs that live in the Old Dorm Block.
- Olde Reed - Reed before we can remember it.
- PBR - Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
- Prospie - A prospective Reed student.
- Quest - Student newspaper.
- Reedie - A Reed student.
- Renn Fayre - Year-end catharsis.
- SU - The Student Union.
- The Iliad - Required reading and bane of freshman year.
- Timé - Greek Honor.
- Wimbledon - The near-campus apartment complex.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
- A good idea of a few areas of interest. Although you have some time to decide, it’s better if you have some idea so you don’t have to struggle sophomore year to catch up.
- A solid background in the classics. Few have this background, and they have to catch up during their freshman year.
- How to adequately write. Humanities 110, the required freshman class, prepares you for college writing, but no high school will fully prepare you for Reed.
- That getting a job on campus is a good thing. I didn’t get a job at first because I was concerned about not having enough time to study. In hindsight, you can both study and work in unison, and working provides an incentive-laden study break.
- That having a car is a good thing. Portland, while having a great public transportation system, is a lot more fun with a solid pair of wheels.
Tips to Succeed
- Be humble and take your intro-level classes. Reed isn’t any old school where a slight working knowledge of a subject qualifies you for upper-division courses. Reed’s intro-level classes are both challenging and thorough. Take them or else face being lost in upper-division courses. However, professors simply might decide to not let you take upper-level classes, anyway.
- Despite that, know when you need a break, and use those times to not study. Combining a slight degree of slacking with any Reed career is essential for sanity. Know when you have reached your limits and take some time for yourself.
- Do almost all of your reading. At many schools, students can get away by only doing some of the reading and winging the rest; try that at Reed and you’ll be on a one-way road to failure and academic probation.
- Don’t be afraid to ask for extensions on assignments if you both really feel that you need one and will be able to complete the assignment to a greater and fuller degree if you receive an extension. However, don’t always ask for one or your professors will quickly tire of you and drop your grade accordingly.
- Don’t lie to your professors. They know when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
- See Portland as much as you can; it’s a beautiful city.
- When the time comes, party hard.
- When the time has yet to arrive, study hard, but with breaks.
- You can fail out of Reed. Be warned.
- You can succeed at Reed. Good luck.
Urban Legends
- Howard Vollum - Howard Vollum, the namesake of the Vollum building, is supposedly buried under the front lawn. Sometimes he even rises from the dead to feast on the flesh of the living—or maybe just Reed trustees.
- Psychology professor Allen Neuringer supposedly created a batch of zombie albino mutant monkeys in his secret underground facility. However, when zombie albino mutant monkey-friendly individuals found out about his experimentations, they came and secretly freed the creatures. In theory, the experiments are still loose in the canyon, harassing poor students alone and disoriented at night. Beware!
- Some say that bugs the size of Gregor Samsa exist in the bowels of the Old Dorm Block, occasionally entering rooms to terrorize students. They will eat you alive!
- Supposedly, large water rats live in the canyon that divides Reed. These rats, gigantic specimens twice the size of a grown dog and with noses as orange as construction cones, harass students on the land bridge near the canyon fish ladder. If you ever see one, watch carefully, for you can learn much about yourself through its subtle motions.
Traditions
- Olde Reed vs. New Reed - Many Reedies like to compare present-day Reed to a mythical, remembered, nostalgic version of Reed that not even the oldest professors are sure existed. The debate, while not being that serious, is an amusing one to watch.
- Renn Fayre - At the end of every year, students turn the campus into a giant fun zone, complete with anything you could imagine. The event celebrates the turning in of senior theses and the completion of the academic year. Many say that freshmen are not truly Reedies until they experience their first Renn Fayre.
- The Doyle Owl - Nothing greater than a 400-pound block of stone, the Doyle Owl used to reside on the roof of the Old Dorm Block. Now, students pass it around and fierce battles are waged over its possession. At major Reed events, the owl usually makes an appearance. The ensuing friendly fracas lasts for hours. You’ll know the owl if and when you see it.
School Spirit
School spirit at Reed usually falls into two categories: academic and athletic. In terms of athletics, Reed possesses almost no school spirit. Although a few die-hards exist who unwaveringly support the Frisbee and rugby teams, most students remain ever-apathetic to the sporting events of Reed. Academically, however, Reedies show a great deal of school spirit. Reed students proudly believe that their school is among the best, if not the best, in America, possessing the most knowledgeable professors, the best curriculum, and a great combination of classics reading and personal insight. Often, Reedies even brag amongst themselves over how much more work they have than their peers.
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