<p>Why does everyone in Stony Brook hates Stony Brook?</p>
<p>Because only the bitter people need to let the world know what they hate.</p>
<p>Not everyone hates it, just people who don't go out and find things. They expect people to come to them or "invitations" to parties and to fun.</p>
<p>Very few people in Stony dislike Stony. You're seeing the small minority here as a big part of the school because you might not have talked to a lot of people from there. My best friend goes there and he likes it so much that he told me if I got in and got housing, he wants to try and dorm with me. I went there last week to check it out during a school day and liked it enough that I'm checking my SOLAR account and e-mail more than once a day. </p>
<p>I think the only people who really have something to complain about are the people who come from out of state, because they don't have the opportunity to go home on the weekends. Then again, sometimes people from NY don't really want to go home every weekend anyway. (I know I won't come home every weekend.)</p>
<p>Not everyone in state has the opportunity to go home from Stony every weekend. I'm instate yet still 8 hours away.</p>
<p>Does Stony Brook do a spend a day at the college?</p>
<p>^ They probably only do that during Spring and Fall because during the Winter the campus really looks awful. Looks so dead.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not really. Not overnight, anyway. If you're looking to be hooked up with a tour, or to visit a department or whatever, then our office can help facilitate that.</p>
<p>Chris</p>
<p>I think it's unfair to say most people like it. Just because they are not vocal does not mean they like or dislike it. The people that really dislike it are very vocal about it. The main reason people probably dislike Stony Brook is because it's not what they thought it was going to be. Stony Brook is not a big athletics school, it's very much a public research university. While there are a lot of students, half commute and a decent amount of students go home on the weekends. But anyone who cares could look up any of those two previous facts. People who go to Stony Brook or any college just after one visit are simply uninformed and are probably in for a big surprise. </p>
<p>When picking a college, you should research the hell out of it. What is offered, what is student life like, etc and those that do not simply should not complain afterwards. Nobody forced them to go to SBU. A lot of the complaints are generic: teachers don't care, classes are too big, minority groups tend to stick together, food sucks. I mean these are complaints you'll get at any school with over 10,000 enrollment. Classes are going to be big and seem impersonal, teachers do not have time to give you personal attention, etc. You should've gone to a smaller liberal arts school if that is what you wanted.</p>
<p>Not to say that those things aren't true, they might be true. But the one thing that is definitely true is how many people go home on the weekends. I went to SBU for 4 years, stayed on the weekends pretty much every week aside from holidays and it was a ghost town. I visited a few weekends and it was just the same thing. There are students there, but it's not as many students as you see on Tuesday night.</p>
<p>It's good that you guys go on these forums to get information about SBU. In my opinion, the academics can be good to excellent depending on how you play the game and seize opportunities on your own. I mean academics has two sides to it, the department and you, so you need to be active in your academic career. Social life get's a bit iffy. I loved my time at SBU, but I saw a lot of what the complainers were talking about. Minority groups stick together (but you'll get this at almost any big school), people do go home on the weekends (NOT ALL, I understand not everyone does, no S___ not everybody goes home, but compare a Tuesday night on campus to a Saturday night on campus, I'm sorry it's just a huge freaking difference), and the surrounding area really just sucks. But you have to make the best of the situation and that's what I did and a lot of others do. The academic situation for me was too good to leave.</p>