<p>gregorymitchell is just a loser.....plain and simple.</p>
<p>just about everyone i know who went to uconn loved it. sure storrs isnt an urban metropolis, but you gotta figure, there are 15,000 students there, there are gonna be plenty of things to do and everything that is there is catered to the students. you dont go to uconn if youre looking for a big city.</p>
<p>Poor Gregory, your mat got stolen. HAHAHA.</p>
<p>I hope I don't get a roommate like you in college. I am sure you're a semi nice guy, people just walk all over you. Either that or you take everything way too seriously.</p>
<p>How typical of UCONN that all I get in response to my grivenaces is further ridicule. I am not merely a semi-nice guy. I am a paragon of kindness and virtue. Yet noone in this god for saken University appreciates me. Girls don't look my way and guys just want to beat me up and make fun of me. All these girls want is big muscles and good looks or someone who can talk about "Real World" or "Flava of Love". Shouldn't intelligence suffice? They dont care that on the Stanford-Binet IQ test I scored a 139 which places me far above the vast majority of UCONN students especially all these repulsive guineas with their disgusting hair gel and fake tans. Yet they get girls and I dont!! Girls must be stupid to be guilty of sucha travesty of justice. Dont they realize that by letting me impregnate them their child will be incredibly intelligent due to the heritability of IQ and also the Flynn Effect (which means the child will in fact have an even higher IQ than me). I dont see how I can not be a more appealing partner for copulation.</p>
<p>If you are thinking of going and are a mildmannered person like myself be prepeared to defend yourelf physically. Ive been in two fist fights since I got here. Both were totally not provoked by me. In the first a guy called me an "*******" when I did absolutely nothing to him. In the second a drunk guy I had never seen before said to me "I bet you have never gotten any pussy". I can tolerate a lot but I refuse to meekly cower in the face of such taunts. Unfortunately everyone here is a meathead but me. They all have a huge unfair advantage when we get in a fight because they have more muscle mass. I wound up losing both badly since both of these jerks were much stronger.</p>
<p>And I am the best roommate a person could have. You should pray you get a roommate like me. Unlike everyone else here I respect other people's privacy and feelings. </p>
<p>You also call me a "loser", but you may be surprised that I embrace the term. If being a winner means degrading yourself by reveling in the debauchery that one witnesses all across this wretched campus than I will gladly be called a loser. </p>
<p>Uconn is wasteland replete with whores, drunks and losers although I am a notable exception. This is no place to study or develop intellectually. This is a place to get "wasted and party" and wind up with chlamydia.</p>
<p>I'm starting to see why people don't like you. Actually, I think you are a troll. Now that post is just too much to be real.</p>
<p>Well your wrong. I am not a troll, but a real living breathing UCONN Junior who despises the school. Im going to be transferring though so this will hopefully be my last semester!! YEAH!!!</p>
<p>I live in CT and have heard reactions as bad as Gregorymitchells and some that were just as opposite. The people in question were of varying backgrounds/temperments. I don't know anything about this poster, but I think that being such a large school, you can get lost and definitely not be happy. My cousin's daughter HATED it, thought everyone acted like cheap drunks in her dorm, told of disgusting stories involving other students and sex/alcohol and had to look very hard to find like-minded friends. She also found it very hard to get into certain classes if you weren't in the honors program. She told me the only good thing about her 4 years was meeting her husband junior year. My neighbor's daughter came home almost every weekend although her twin a little less often. If you didn't drink, it was hard to find things to do...it's not like the "nerdy kids" or more old fashioned have a club (although they should!)
On the other hand, my friends daughter who is a big science lover, is having a ball...loves her friends and professors but she is in the honors program. She has to take a course over the summer to get out in 4 years, but is doing well. There are many cases in-between, but I wouldn't say hating the school is abnormal, many do, but many love it too and a lot say, "It was okay" in retrospect. For some finding their niche is just very hard, it's not like meeting people outside your dorm is always easy, and some clubs are just clubs in name but hardly anyone comes or they are "cliquey".
I think UConn is a good school, well respected in certain areas, but I would have any of my children visit more than once to make sure they have some idea of the atmosphere.</p>
<p>I thought I was pretty nice. I mean honestly you have to expect that you will get your mat stolen. AT any school, there is always going to be that one *******. </p>
<p>As for your whole, I am smart there for girls should sleep with me. That is not how it works. If you haven't figured that out by now then you aren't as smart as you claim.</p>
<p>My son had a wonderful experience at UCONN-he never had a problem getting classes (he's not in the Honors program), had a fantastic internship after his junior year, and graduated after four years with a great job offer. His freshman dorm was very typical of most other college campuses (and I have seen many!), and during the other years, he had really nice dorm rooms--much, much nicer and larger than at many other campuses. He had the fun of watching his school win both the mens and womens basketball championships the same year (unprecedented in NCAA history), and has made some great friends along the way. UCONN turned out to be the perfect place for him--Connecticut is the wealthiest state in the country, and they are determined to put a lot of money into their flagship university--and it shows--all of the new buildings are incredible. The people who were hired along with him at his firm paid many, many times the price of tuition that he did--so for us, it was a bargain. Population wise, it is much smaller that other state universities--but with all of their state money, it is going to grow and grow in prestige. If you are looking for a college where there is no drinking or parties going on, you should try BYU--but other than that, you will have a hard time finding a school where none of that happens.</p>
<p>I bid you good luck to wherever you transfer or whatnot but... a lot of what you say is inevitable at most college campuses. There will always be pricks wherever you go and I'm sorry you had these experiences.</p>
<p>However, despite your attacks against the school and its students as a whole... you sound like an angry and cocky prick yourself. Don't get what I say wrong, I'm not making personal attacks on you... I'm just stating what I see in your posts. I don't know your personally but I do read your words correctly. Why are you making an attack on the female population because they didn't want to have sex with you? That's pathetic in my mind. While what some of you say is simply correct... the classes situation, the low standard of Storrs, even Hartford. But what about the proximity of Boston? Shoppes at Manchester? You focus on the negative too much. You said you were pretty much forced to go to UConn to save your parents money and that whole biz, so why not make the best of any situation? I find it very... very hard to believe that you couldn't make a single friend in your two years there. If you hated it so much there immediately, you should've transferred a long time ago, don't make some BS excuse about making your parents spend money... take out a loan.</p>
<p>Again, I don't know you... you sound like a pretty nice person who's had terible experiences so don't take my post as a personal attack but some of your complaints are simply meaningless since it's college. You're an intellectual obviously and I would love it if my roomate had the respect for me and my privacy as it seems you do.</p>
<p>Not everyone coming to this school is as you say. (Your inference to jocks/frat people/etc)</p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshman who already has hundreds of friends on campus (I've spent a better portion of JR/SR yr in HS at the campus w/ friends) I was a tri-varsity athlete in HS, and I'm currently working hard to win a bid to start a frat/ UConn chapter through community service and cultural awareness with the organization: MACS. Oh, my IQ is fairly solid in my opinion too.
On top of that, I'm on full scholarship in the Honors Program.</p>
<p>So, just because you ran into an experience that sounds far extreme IMO, doesn't make the school what you portray it as:</p>
<p>"This is the college where the scum of Connecticut congregate. Ultimately the real reason why Uconn is a bad choice is the people. 99.99% are stupid (Frats, sororities), or foreign and will want nothing to do with you. There are also a lot of jerks."</p>
<p>Well said.</p>
<p>To be entirely honest, I can see where GregoryMitchell is coming from, but I think he had an unusually bad experience. Although I admit I was in a similar situation with girls (rejected numerous times, probably because I stopped watching those Richard Simmons workout vids), not everyone is as bad as he makes out the school to be.</p>
<p>I lived in shippee freshman year and even though some people screamed the traditional college stereotype, the vast majority were very kind and socially accepting people. One could say that is because Shippee was infested with nerds, but the fact that I had great friends from North and Northwest who might not have quite made it into the honors program refutes that argument.</p>
<p>I struggled to fit in at first, but I found lots of other people around me shared with me the slight anxiety of living in close quarters to complete strangers. I think getting to break this bubble led to the development of some of the best friendships I will ever have.</p>
<p>I think GregoryMitchell failed by assuming a negative attitude about life at Uconn. Have you ever noticed that people respond better to individuals with a positive outlook on life? I think this is because people love to be around others who can see the bright side in the minor flaws of life. (AKA: Drunk people, despite the fact that they can be threatening, are always good for a laugh or 2). I digress...</p>
<p>Sorry for that Dr. Phil moment, but I think the only way to enjoy college period is to be happy. And consider yourself lucky that you have the privelege of enhancing your knowledge at such a nice place.</p>
<p>*As a side note, the flynn effect is not an appropriate way of justifying that your children will have a higher IQ because you have a high IQ. First of all, it deals with IQ on a macro, not micro level in which population scores change over time. Secondly, intelligence is a multifactorial trait (nature+nuture matter) which is also polygenetic. Being a complex trait, a concept known as "regression to the mean" typically occurs in which the average phenotype is favored, especially if a parent has an extreme phenotype. This is why eugenics has failed on many occasions. You can learn all about this jazz in MCB 200.</p>
<p>Excellent, I'm taking MCB 200 next semester. That is, Monday.</p>
<p>cool. You will probably enjoy it, especially if igor ovchinikov is teaching the second half (just because digesting his thick russian accent in such a pleasure hahahaha)</p>
<p>Is Northwest better than North? and do we get to pick what dorm we want? cuz I just filled out the application online, and it didn't ask for our preference. just 10 simples questions.</p>
<p>Northwest is much better than North. No, you do not get to pick, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Is there any special/different housing for people in the honors program? I know that's the case for some schools, and wasn't sure if it's true for UConn as well.</p>
<p>In general, what are the differences between being in the honors program and not?</p>
<p>A friend of mine told me that there was honors housing.
<a href="http://www.honors.uconn.edu/community-housing/index.php?p=housing&s=shippee%5B/url%5D">http://www.honors.uconn.edu/community-housing/index.php?p=housing&s=shippee</a>
I've heard a few students say they didn't want that, but most like the fact that there is a quieter or more studious dorm and you know everyone else there is also in the program. This is mainly for the first year and it helps to have in such a big college, peers who are also taking honors courses. I don't remember exactly, but I think you have to have a pretty good SAT/ACT score to get into the honors program and it does, depending on the courses, have a faster, more involved pace. Science of course is usually the harder of the group. I also have seen very good scholarships to that program, one young man in my son's school got full tuition paid.</p>
<p>im from connecticut and storrs yes is boring and yes is a cow town, you can go to hartford (which is nowhere near as bad as georgerymitchell said, yes like every major city there are its bad sections, there are many good sections), you can also visit many surrounding towns and uconn itself is like its own town. Many of the kids in my private school tend to go there because it is a great school, provides great athletics to watch ,and yes there are good parties</p>
<p>Freshman honors students get placed in Shippee hall, which has some of the nicest rooms on campus, but is in the worst possible location (extremely far away from classes/center of campus).</p>
<p>South A is also an honors dorm, and is pretty much limited to juniors and seniors, or sophomores with lots of credits. The South A rooms are mostly suites and is the best dorm on campus.</p>
<p>Honors students can take honors classes, which are smaller in size and generally more challenging; they have opportunities for more events/seminars/scholarships. They get priority registration for classes and extended library privileges. All in all, a pretty nice deal.
They also have to complete an honors thesis before graduation.</p>