![]() ![]() Last semester I saw someone reading it while standing in line in Ross. I’m not, by any stretch, the only person here to have read this book. I clicked on it, did some light reading, and soon Middlebury was added haplessly to the rotation of colleges I was considering applying to. A dig into Bennington revealed that the school only enrolled 700 total students ( way too small, I thought), but my eyes wandered instead to the ‘People Also Search For’ panel, where they landed, fatefully, on another name I’d never seen before: Middlebury College. ![]() ![]() Then came the most pivotal Google search of my life. “Is Hampden College from ‘The Secret History’ based on a real school?” My search results informed me that it was indeed based upon a real school: Bennington College, which I had never heard of. Then I read it again in ninth grade - and again the next year.ĭuring my junior year of high school, figuring out where I wanted to go to college happened to coincide with a re-re-re-reading of “The Secret History.” This time, when I experienced the book’s historic buildings, lavish weekend trips and cultish academic affairs, I finally had the sense to wonder if it was based on a real college. ![]() In middle school, I devoured Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut novel about a group of Classics majors at an elite private college in Vermont who conspire to kill one of their friends. ![]()
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