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Beer and Circus informed me of today’s college life. I learned about party school, professors, and student life at a college. Even though I did not care for this book, Beer and Circus opened an entirely new window toward colleges for me. Sperber writes about colleges that are sports centered and how much partying they do. Sperber pointed out that University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is a major partying school, because the school is so sports centered. Beer and circus informed me of how little professors actually care about their students and how closed minded they can be. A student’s life at a sports college can be nothing but “beer and circus”. For students in the “Greek System, cheap beer is [their] oxygen”.  (Sperber, 167) This book also gave me an idea of what type of school I would want to apply to. I would not recommend this book because the book is drawn out and there are many statistics.