Rate your college experience as a whole.

<p>I’ll give my month of college a try…haha</p>

<p>School: Carleton College
Year: Freshman
Academics: A I really, really like my classes so far, and I think I’m doing pretty well, but the homework is definitely kicking my butt - I barely see the light on the weekdays! My profs are great so far though.
Social Life: A- There’s always parties and places to go. They’re a little crowded for now, and somewhat repetitive, but I’m hoping that that’ll change when everyone is a little more settled in instead of just following the “party circuit” that everyone else does. Still, I really like the people I’ve met; everyone is so freaking nice that it’s a little scary, In a good way.
Living situation: B+ I’m in a pretty small triple, but I love my roommates ad floor and I’m in a good dorm.
Overall: A. I love it here already.</p>

<p>Thus far at my current college</p>

<p>Academics: D (not rigorous, some professors were a pain to deal with)
Social Life: D (poor area full of hillbillies, civilisation is 2hr away)
Living Situation: A (inexpensive, saved money, was able to invest all of my subsidised loans on a net basis)
Overall (not an average): C- (reasonable, would probably do it again but slightly differently)</p>

<p>Through UI’s online programme:</p>

<p>Academics: A++++++ (great videotaped lectures)
Social life : n/a
Living situation: A (same as before)
Overall: A (looking forward to getting the degree through there)</p>

<p>Are you an Englishman, Van?</p>

<p>School UCSB
Year: Freshman
Academics: A (My classes really havent gone past review yet but I have high hopes for this grade)
Social Live: F- currently (I have absolutely no friends here yet, eat alone, and my dorm house is a ghost town)
Living Situation: A+ Food is great, pool, beach, sun, beautiful weather, big room
Overall (not an average of the above): C The social life is really bogging down my experience… Having absolutely nothing to do on weekends other than homework is downright depressing and sad. </p>

<p>Anyway I posted this fairly early into my college experience and I plan to come back here and update this in a couple of months when I actually experience more than 3 weeks of living here.</p>

<p>School UC Berkeley
Year: Freshman
Academics: A (rigorous and grading curves are harsh; huge grade deflation. Nonetheless, great professors and quality courses)
Social Life: B+ (The dorms are pretty social and its easy to meet people. People are generally friendly in my experience and there are lots of student groups and clubs on campus.)
Living Situation: (B) Not as bad as I thought it’d be. Expensive dorms, though. Lively city but lots of hobos on the streets. Lots of shops and restaurants immediately surrounding the school, so that’s pretty convenient. I love the asian food here though.
Overall (not an average of the above): B (I haven’t really established much of a social life, other than just being surrounded by people I don’t really connect with. Academics are kinda wearing me down, too. Overall good experience so far.)</p>

<p>School: Rutgers University
Year: Freshman
Academics: A- (I love all my classes except for one, but I’m sticking it out because I don’t want a W.)
Social Life: A- (I’ve met a bunch of people that think we’re friends and hang out with them every so often, but I’ve mostly been sticking with people I knew previously. Also, it’s Rutgers, huge party school, I can get free beer whenever I want, but it does get boring after a while, well for me at least. Most people would probably love it though)
Living Situation: B+ (I love my dorm, I really do, minus the lack of air conditioning and elevator that is, third floor: SUCK IT)
Overall (not an average of the above): B+ (I thought college would be fun and exciting, most of the time I find myself being extremely bored with nothing to do. I mean I go out every weekend to “party” because apparently that’s the fun thing to do, it’s alright, I guess, rather go to a show though.)</p>

<p>^ A W is not the end of the world!!! Seriously! Although, if you are doing well in the class, there is no need to drop it. If you are borderline failing, that’s when you need to drop the class pronto. A “W” looks better than an “F”.</p>

<p>School - Since this is the internet I won’t be too specific. I’ll just say I’m attending a residential (live on-campus) joint-enrollment program.
Year: Freshman</p>

<p>Academics: C+ - It’s midterm. I’m doing alright. Not fantastic, not abysmal, just okay. I hope to have mostly As by the end of the semester, and I’ll still be satisfied if I have a B or two.</p>

<p>Social Life: D - I won’t blame my lack of social life on my introversion. That would paint introversion in a distinctly negative light, and I very, very much appreciate this aspect of my personality. That being said, my natural tendencies are ones which do not normally lead to the building of friendships, e.g. wanting to stay in my room, relishing silence and solitude. I suppose this is where I’m supposed to “step outside my comfort zone” and do things which have little to no appeal to me. Like, going and sitting in the common area of my dorm (an extremely popular hang-out for this dorm’s residents) to listen to mostly pointless conversation. It’s not that I can’t take part in these conversations, it’s that I don’t have anything I’d like to add. So, yes, I could do this, but would it be worth it? Hm…</p>

<p>However, my sister is also going to this school, and it would be an understatement to say that her presence here has been a blessing to me. She is what is familiar and comfortable, and I find myself quite comfortable around her friends, as well. It’s possible that her presence is hindering me from having to form my own bonds, yes…but I’d take her friendship and sisterhood over an uncomfortable period of awkward acquaintanceship any day.</p>

<p>Living Situation: F - I wish I could assign this section a grade lower than F. I’m living in a dorm, in a double (two person to a room) with community baths. I’m an extremely private person. I spend a lot of my time thinking, thinking thoughts that I’d rather be thinking completely alone. The mere presence of another person can be (is) really disruptive to me at times. I won’t be too specific about my roommate. I’ll just say that she’s rude, impersonal, not my type of person, and most importantly…a complete stranger! </p>

<p>I feel like screaming so much of the time. I feel like sawing off my fingers one by one, I feel like shooting myself repeatedly in both feet (not literally, of course, but you get the idea). I am so, so very uncomfortable! I cannot explain how incredibly frustrating it is to come back to the dorms after a day of classes and want to be alone and breathe in my own space, and have to be in the presence of a stranger, especially one who I’ve grown to dislike. Honestly, I’d be unhappy in any situation where I had to share a room (excluding a future spouse, or maybe a family member if money’s really tight?), but it’s especially bad to have to do so with a person who you have no prior knowledge of. Sharing a room is so intimate to me. </p>

<p>Besides having to share a room and all that entails, I also highly dislike having to see other people in the bathroom. Perhaps I’m just odd, but it irritates me to wake up to pee in the middle of the night with my hair a mess, not wearing a bra, and have to go see strangers (!!) doing God knows what in the bathroom (e.g. one time, a girl was coloring her hair around 2 AM). In summary, I’d have to say that I can (will) bear the rest of this semester and the next. I don’t have a choice. However, this is an experience which I hope to never repeat. I try not to be a whiner. I don’t think I’m overreacting. I just think that this affects me more than it affects other people.</p>

<p>Overall (not an average of the above): C - College has been better than high school in most aspects. However, I’d be optimally pleased if only I could live separately from my peers. It’s a little annoying how a lot of people are like “You hafta live in da dormz frashman yeer, if ya dont urr missn out!!1!” because not everyone is suited for it, as I’ve had a such pleasant time discovering.</p>

<p>School: A school where the science departments are basements with crisp and bland white paint all over the walls.
Year: Sophomore
Academics: D
Social Live: D
Living Situation: D+
Overall (not an average of the above): D+</p>

<p>Imagine how disgusting it is to find gum under the desks of a lecture halls. This is what it feels like everyday.</p>

<p>Wow, this has become a featured post on this board. I am so proud of myself. </p>

<p>What is wrong with the social situation at the University of Ottawa, anyways, Orly83? Please elaborate on your “F”.</p>

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<p>The correct sentence should read “Imagine how disgusting it is to find gum under the desks of lecture halls.”</p>

<p>I’m just OCD, so if I do something wrong I have to fix it.</p>

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No, not a requirement. It’s Intro to Business. The class isn’t very hard, but I just really dislike it. I do learn a lot from it, the only reason I’m sticking it out is in case I want to take higher level courses. Intro classes are such BS!</p>

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<p>I am a business major, and I don’t recall the intro class at my school being very difficult at all… just a lot of soft stuff and group presentations. We weren’t grilled on any technical stuff whatsoever.</p>

<p>appleska - I find people who preach the virtues of dorms tend to have their heads so far up their rectums that they find polyps; whether they are stupid enough to know they have them up there is another matter entirely.</p>

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<p>It varies heavily by school I’d assume - some may have it as a weeder course. </p>

<p>At my school I heard bad stories about it, and so convinced my adviser to let me skip it and just go to higher level technical courses, which I got straight A’s in. I didn’t feel like risking my grade on bad TA’s and wasting my time with a useless class.</p>

<p>School: Rutgers NB
Year: Freshman
Academics: B+, one teacher is a total moron
Social Life: C, its alright. Met fair share of new people, go out every weekend but for me hte parties just aren’t that fun and the attraction to greek life (at Rutgers at least) just isn’t there for me. 21 = fun
Living Situation: B
Overall (not an average of the above): C</p>

<p>School: Pomona College
Year: Sophomore
Academics: A+, I’m taking some ridiculously difficult classes but my professors are incredible. The Chinese department is great and I really feel like I’m making good progress at learning the language.
Social Life: A, I have met people I will probably be friends with well after school. Sometimes the hookup scene gets annoying since I’m not really into it.
Living Situation: A, I live with aforementioned best friend in a large double, which is great ninety-nine percent of the time. Weather, food, etc. all are more than acceptable.
Overall: A+, I can’t imagine spending my time anywhere else.</p>

<p>School: I transferred three times.</p>

<p>Year: Senior. Very close to graduation.</p>

<p>Academics: B, not an A because I picked the wrong major. Some of the Professors I had seemed okay.</p>

<p>Social Life: C, I didn’t like the social life at all at any point in college although I matured much faster than the other students.</p>

<p>Living Situation: B, Depends of where/when I was living. I have lived in the dormitories, apartments, at home, and abroad. At home was by far the worst and most depressing scenario.</p>

<p>Overall: B-, I would have like everything more given I majored in a different subject and didn’t transfer between three schools. But this is my own fault due to poor planning.</p>

<p>School : University of Arizona ( Freshman )</p>

<p>Academics : C+. I hate my linguistics course and I dont understand how such interesting material could be reduced to such boring tripe. The Arabic and English classes are fairly challenging and the quality of teaching is good. People in general arent the brightest though and all the gen ed courses get filled up really quickly.</p>

<p>Social Life : B- . I dont like the huge bro scene whose presence is sometimes overwhelming. But generally most of the people who I talked to so far are pretty decent. The parties are ok at best tbh. </p>

<p>Housing : B+ . I live in an off campus apartment which is catered towards students. I love my room and the facilities here. The downside would be that it’s kinda far from campus and the fact that I dont have a car makes it worse. The social scene here is ok except for the fact that there are a large contingency of arabs and asian ppl ( no offence meant ) who cant speak no English and stay to themselves.</p>

<p>Overall : C+ . I guess I had my fair share of fun but I am sorta disillusioned by the academics and the impersonal nature of studying in a huge school in the middle of the desert. Tucson is also a pretty boring place especially for people coming from big cities</p>

<p>Year: freshman
Academics: B+
Social Live: D
Living Situation: D
Overall (not an average of the above): D</p>

<p>I really hate it here.</p>