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Wild and Terrifying

the largest college campus in the world: Berry College, on more than 27,000 acres. At Berry you get a year round southern liberal arts summer camp education with forests and a few sweeping mountains. You can hunt. You can walk, hike, bike, and Rollerblade for miles on asphalt and dirt trails like calligraphy from student dorms. On the way, you may get sprayed by a skunk, witness the phantom movements of a roving coyote, bask in the shadow of a bald eagle, or see a bear march

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