Are You Happy At Your School?

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1

<p>Please, honest answers.</p>

<li>List your University/College/Institute</li>
<li>Rate Your Overall experience from 1-10</li>
<li>What is the single best thing about the school you are attending?</li>
<li>What is the single worst thing about the school you are attending?</li>
<li>Do you wish you had gone somewhere else?</li>
</ol>

2

<p>1 Rice
2 1000000
3 Everything
4 Nothing
5 F*** no
(I think most of my classmates would echo these sentiments)</p>

3

<p>1. JHU
2. **Meh, its okay. 7.5 at most. (very very very stressed out)
**3. **campus is really pretty, really dedicated administrative ppl, great support staff, faculty dedicated to achieving excellence, foods good, has improved since last year, georgian style architecture, i love it. ppl are highly motivated about what they want to do with their lives. very engaging and challenging by design
**4. endowment sucks; not great relative to peers, lack of school pride, study robots, lots of grade conscious premeds. Brody is leaving. :( sad face.
5. for my intended majors? hell no.</p>

<p>EDIT: Maybe I would have gone to Duke if not JHU. ;0) Who wouldn't want to meet EAD in real life?</p>

4

<ol>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>I'll give it about a 9, considering I've grown consistently happier with how this school works over the years</li>
<li>An outstanding faculty, with good access for undergrads</li>
<li>I love Hyde Park, but it can feel like a bit of a prison, especially in the winter</li>
<li>I don't know if Chicago is America's best school, but by now it's certainly my favorite.</li>
</ol>

5

<ol>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (Tepper Business)</li>
<li>9 before I really experienced it, now a full out 10! Yay jobs!</li>
<li>Absolutely amazing job opportunities and networking. Put me on Wall St.</li>
<li>Easy to miss out if you don't reach out and fully experience what it has to offer. </li>
<li>No, very happy with my experience and I can't wait to go back in August!</li>
</ol>

6

<ol>
<li> Yale</li>
<li>11?</li>
<li>Enthusiastic, friendly, non-competitive students and a brilliant, accessible faculty</li>
<li>Uhhh...late at night they close most of the gates on Old Campus so you have to walk all the way around to get in?</li>
<li> Not a chance...Yale is the BEST SCHOOL in the world.</li>
</ol>

7

<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>My scale goes to 11, I don't know about yours ;-). But in all honestly, I would say that my happiness fluctuates between a 7 and a 10, so even at my saddest here I'm still very happy. In high school I would have put the bounds between a 3 and a 7, for comparison.</li>
<li>I love the fact that I can just be myself here. Being yourself is a surprisingly hard thing to be.</li>
<li>I wish more people took advantage of our non-standard majors, like classics, religious studies, etc.</li>
<li>Never ever ever, though I do sort of fantasize about going to college again, and this time choosing another school just to see how it might be different.</li>
</ol>

8

<ol>
<li> Northwestern</li>
<li> 6-8</li>
<li> Lots of smart, fun-loving kids with a great town next to a great city; so many academic opportunities for those who seek them out; two beaches; great balance between social and academic activities</li>
<li> North/South campus divide; theatre majors; ugly concrete library; heartless pre-med professors; winter</li>
<li> Probably but not 100 percent</li>
</ol>

9

<ol>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>8 (would be 9 if I didn't get suspended freshman year)</li>
<li>Good school with a Big Div I Athletic program</li>
<li>Guy:Girl ratio is not in my favor</li>
<li>Sometimes I wish I'd of gone to Texas.</li>
</ol>

10

<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>9</li>
<li>Amazing faculty, easy to make great connections for later on.</li>
<li>Expensive housing, but manageable (on and off campus)</li>
<li>Another college for Astrophysics? Not bloody likely!</li>
</ol>

11

<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>10</li>
<li>It's very engaging, surrounding environment and academics alike.</li>
<li>It sometimes feels impersonal, due to its size</li>
<li>Not at all. I kind of wish I had applied elsewhere, just since I now know how awesome it is to live away from home in an urban area. But I love Berkeley.</li>
</ol>

12

<ol>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>10+</li>
<li>the people, we have so many amazing people that are doing so much for the world (and will do more) (but i love almost everything else too)</li>
<li>honestly, i kind of miss BIG football games with the band that brought everyone together. (football was a religion at my high school)</li>
<li>never ever</li>
</ol>