<p>Honestly as I look back over your multiple profiles and escalating paranoia it’s time to say good bye to thunder=Gdad=higher. Once you choose to exploit a tragedy at another school you stepped over the line. Typical ST Oalf was your giveaway early on. </p>
<p>3 people died and rather than offer condolences you choose to use it to further your one person attack on the school. If I do choose to attend ST Oalf my hope is you will be gone by the fall. </p>
<p>Ok this is hysterical! I spent 30 minutes going back and forth and I think this person is actuall 5 profiles!</p>
<p>Gdad And coopercf and higher and thunder and siseneg. I was just trying to find out if anyone has heard on RD yet…LOL!</p>
<p>But seriously if there is no day planner then I’m pulling my application! OMG </p>
<p>■■■■■ is back! Pay your fine and study harder. </p>
<p>Gdad? Thunder lips? High Ed123? Sybil?</p>
<p>I take issue with Siseneg calling St. Olaf a “bad” school. All colleges have strengths and weaknesses. Some of St. Olaf’s strengths are its beautiful campus, nationally renowned music program, and wonderful faculty in many academic departments, specifically math and science. But St. Olaf, like any college, also has weaknesses. What I think the different posters were trying to point out is that the St. Olaf admissions describes is very different than what many students experience. For reasons I can’t understand, St. Olaf administration appears to purposefully take a draconian, punitive approach to attempt to control all that students do outside of class, which can negatively campus life. Students who don’t participate in music, through academic study or extracurricular activities, may also have a much harder time fitting in here. </p>
<p>All of your personalities lack credibility since they are all created to attack one school all in the same time frame. I do give you creative points for arguing with your own posts. </p>
<p>Pay your fine and study harder </p>
<p>I am a senior at St. Olaf and so much of what I’ve seen on this thread is untrue. I worked as a JC last year (an RA for freshman) and we were taught by the head of residence life, Pamela McDowell, NOT to do what you described. We were specifically told NOT to go looking for people violating the alcohol policy- if you heard someone yelling “shots!” then yes, we would knock on the door and see what was happening but behavior such as “tackling” a student to confront them about drinking is certainly not at all something the school wants or is trying to achieve. When it comes to planning events, JCs are required to plan events regularly so I’m sure the trip to the opera was not the only event and some were bound to be more appealing. There are also dorm events and campus events you can attend if your JC plans events that aren’t entirely your cup of tea. Your JCs aren’t your social planners, however- I think it’s kind of ridiculous to complain that they plan events you aren’t interested in. I live 1300 miles away from home when I am at school and have felt supported throughout my time here, especially by professors in my major. I have never had a professor that was arrogant. To give another perspective, my entire 10 person pod WILL be contributing to St. Olaf after our graduation and, in fact, none of us wants to leave the Hill. This might not be the place for your child, but it is certainly not the horrible place you are painting it to be.</p>
<p>It’s one student not a parent that created multiple profiles. There is no credibility. </p>
<p>You have zero credibility. Pay the fine and study harder. </p>
<p>I am the one who started the discussion and mentioned booting cars and planners. Since the original post, several users seem to have missed the point with my admittedly bad examples and are attempting to distract by suggesting there is only one poster with the same issues. This is just not true. I will repost one more time with my major concern. I want to mention I have credibility as our family has paid over $58,000 in tuition to St. Olaf this year alone. Again, my son is a senior. Our daughter graduated from Carleton in 2009, so we have many comparisons to the another small liberal arts college in the same town. The main concern that we have regarding St. Olaf is the approach taken toward students in campus life. The situation on campus at St. Olaf involves more concern for punishment than personal growth. The us VS. them mentality is profound. The desire of the school to shut down any reasonable discord that differs from the administration’s viewpoint is strongly pronounced. I repeat, the academics, professors and studies offered are very good. We paid the fine,$ 58,000 worth, and our son studied and is graduating this spring and continuing on to graduate school. </p>
<p>Your a ■■■■■… pay you your fine and study harder. Your up next HighEd123</p>
<p>You can keep pretending but let’s face facts, there are no other posters that have negative issues other than a group all formed the same time and all with posts only about St Oalf. So assuming you have some intelligence why can’t you see how transparent your multiple personalities are? </p>
<p>You are correct TigerCC…let’s face facts. There are more people posting with common concerns than you care to to have on this site. I started a discussion that obviously struck a chord with others. You are a “prospective student” awaiting your decision to college?..very doubtful given your unusual interest in a topic of which you have no first hand knowledge. You are rude, call people names and have nothing concrete to add to this discussion. I have never posted on this site before, and I am have only posted on the parent forum and this discussion thread because I am not monitoring sites, and I have nothing to add to other threads. You are a little slow to get the point that I started posting because it is decision time for college admissions, and I wanted to share our experiences good and bad at St. Olaf. What is your point other than to distract and put forth false information? There are so many similar posts because people have had similar experiences. Your argument is ridiculous regarding my posts only being about St. Olaf because that is the school that I have knowledge of and felt it important to relay information about. I have not had any children attend Brown…should I post about Brown? Seriously, let’s face facts… you add nothing positive about St. Olaf if that is your intent. </p>
<p>Pay your fine and study harder. </p>
<p>Gdad post note the “typical St Oalf” references multiple times. Plus the reference to thunderstruck2 and the paranoid reference to St Oald paid monitors </p>
<p>I saw a thread started earlier today by Thunderstruck2 in the Parents Forum. I too have a student at St. Olaf. She is a junior. It is difficult to describe exactly the feeling on campus other than that it is generally anti-student. I had to laugh at the booting comment. My daughter who has a friend who stayed on campus over Thanksgiving weekend. Almost no one was there. She parked her car near her dorm. The parking lot was otherwise empty. The car was booted. Typical St. Olaf. When she complained, her parking privileges were revoked altogether. It is definitely true that the dorms are old and tired, and that there is a lavish new Administration Building. This pretty much sums up the attitude of the school toward its students. The attitude affects things large and small. Another funny rule at the school is the no skating on the outdoor rink rule. Minnesota calls itself “The State of Hockey.” St. Olaf has an outdoor ice rink. Skating is not allowed on the ice rink. I’m not kidding. St. Olaf has many great professors and the students on the whole are smart and motivated, but the campus has a negative vibe. I was on campus for the Christmas Festival this year. The event was great. Obtaining tickets was bureaucratic (typical Olaf), and our tickets were issued incorrectly (typical Olaf). Of course the school representatives blamed us even though everyone else in our section had the same problem. While at the school I took my daughter and 9 other girls out for dinner. The conversation was all about how badly the students want out of the school. All but one of the students said that they would never give a dime to St. Olaf nor allow any of their children to attend the school. One of those who feels this way is a double legacy. This pretty much sums up the attitude most students have about the school.</p>
<p>Also, to Thunderstruck2. Don’t feel bad about the negative responses you got. The fact that they came so quickly and from posters with as many as 17,000 prior posts means that they came from posters paid by St. Olaf to monitor forums like this. I expect the same response. It is a common tactic in on-line content management.</p>
<p>Thinderstruck post - typical St Oalf reference just like Gdad…oh and a paranoid reference to people monitoring St Oalf site…just like Gdad…</p>
<p>This will be my last post. I thought the purpose of the sight was to provide honest assessments based upon experiences. There is no story only facts. You are posting “slag” responses about an honest assessment based upon my child’s experience. This is typical St. Olaf, and I believe you all must be affiliated with the school to be watching college confidential posts so closely. I am not sure a friend of a friend of a friend is in a position to refute personal experiences. Here are a few quick examples. The public safety officers “boot” cars as if they had a monthly fee quota. The school bought many new public safety vehicles this year but could find money in the budget to provide students with planners they had been receiving in years past. Residential living is antiquated. They offer no upperclassman or apartment style living. Advisors are detached and uninvolved. I could go on with specifics, but I will not.</p>
<p>Your a ■■■■■, you got caught on campus and your mad…</p>
<p>Pay the fine and study harder</p>
<p>Thanks for reposting one of my earlier posts. You are the one who got caught…you are not a prospective student. I have offered to send you a copy of my cancelled tuition checks. Why not take me up on that if you really want to confirm your “paranoid references” that I am a student and another poster. Again, it is so obvious that you are not who you say you are and my comments are “typical” experiences at St. Olaf. Just do your homework if you are thinking of attending St. Olaf with campus visits, talking with recent alums and upper classmen as another poster suggested. This may be the place for you, but it has been a unusual campus dorm and social life experience for my son and many of his friends. If you go there you will need to pay the fine and study harder, whatever that means.</p>
<p>:) pay your fine and study harder. </p>
<p>intparent
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Thunderstruck2 = gdad = sisneg. My guess is all the same person… And, uh, “demands a complimentary planner”? Why would you do that/think that is something you could get? That is just a completely weird post… I think trolls abound on this thread. Not sure why this one person has such a problem with St. Olaf. By the way… I have parked there about half a dozen times, and never gotten booted or seen a booted car. Of course, I make sure to park legally…
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<p>WasatchWriter
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I stumbled into this thread as a lark. I’ve never seen St. Olaf. I have one kid, and she hasn’t even applied there, no particular reason. So I have no dog in this fight. But it does seem really weird to me to read a bunch of really negative posts from all these new members. They treat the 21 year old Seniors as if they were still 16. This is the kind of thing a student writes, not a parent.
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<p>Archer1415
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You really really really really should not dispute the tortuous rants of those with multiple personas, TigerCC. Who knows if they were all similarly traumatized in the past by some common transgression – like having had a bootie put on their communal car – or not having gone to any sweet dorm parties that weren’t boring – or not having received even one single measly complimentary annual planner from the administration at Saint Olaf.</p>
<p>I, myself, have actually received a complimentary set of oak-wood and cork coffee table coasters from Saint Olaf administration. I know the jealousy and sense of emptiness that others, like thunderthighs, lowerEd and gdud, must feel to not even have received a complimentary annual planner.
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