Huh. Here I'd been thinking my classmates were there for the same reasons I was: The high-caliber education, top-tier faculty, abundant connections to other local schools (Boston area), and not just toleration of but encouragement toward my own spiritual and religious explorations at that stage in my life.

A handful of my best friends even became Catholic priests, so I guess if their parents sent them there to marry, it didn't work out very well.