Quirk

Having gone to a school with an honor code and one without I think there is in fact a difference if not in actual level of restriction but in the attitude the community has towards potential rule breaking. At Smith the assumption (even when people didn't live up to this assumption) was that people would be rule abiding and trustworthy and to the degree they weren't this shouldn't negatively effect the lives of other students. At PTS the professors seem really paranoid about cheating - far more then anyone was at Smith and this means they have to be far more inflexible in dealing with their students. I find the lack of honor code to make a big difference on the quality of the community and the relationship between student and professor at the respective institutions.