"But it wasn’t so long before I discovered three things. First, the graduate students I was with were not as smart, on average, as the early entrants whom I had hung out with at Shimer. (Indeed, it is not clear to me that I have ever been with a brighter set of people than those early entrants – although we are not talking here about maturity.) Second, I was better at thinking about politics than most of my graduate student peers. Finally, Shimer had taught me critical skills, and how to write. In a sense, Shimer proved itself to me at Harvard."
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Shimer College
Shimer College is a liberal arts college in Chicago, Illinois, best known for its small discussion classes and Great Books curriculum. With fewer than 150 students, Shimer is one of the smallest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Shimer was founded in 1853 as the "Mount Carroll Seminary", and adopted the current curriculum and the "Shimer College" name in 1950. It moved from Mount Carroll, Illinois to Waukegan in 1978, from Waukegan to Chicago in 2006, and finally to Naperville in 2017
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