The sounds of the most unique college in the US are manifold: goats getting married, cows being milked, intellectual sparring and spouting of ideals. The focus here is on the tension between the elitism and status quo of normal universities and the down-to-earth idealism of Deep Springs. The interviews, however, reveal slices of further complexity: students relishing responsibility for the sake of 'control'; emphasis on a kind of reverse-superiority for being willing to get one's hands dirty; inconsistent and uncaring teacher assessments. No doubt, the best education in the country, but the subsance of which lies in their actual educational experiences, which we only get a glimpse of--of lessons learned and naivete on full display--that lies underneath the surface projections of idealism that are only half the story. But several forceful examples of commitment to an uncompromised education, are inspiring: education at its most pure and most extreme.