<p>Hey does anyone know if Rhodes has a student-run blog? I've been searching but I can't find any. </p>
<p>The reason I'm asking is because, I'm looking for a new perspective of Rhodes life and blogs are a good way to do that. Hmm if there is none then (if I'm accepted) I'll have to create one. </p>
<p>P.S. where are all the RD people?</p>
<p>There used to be a few “official” student blogs, but they seem to have petered out. If you haven’t seen them already, there are a series of videos that follow some students around and try to give you a feel for their life at Rhodes.<br>
[Rhodes</a> TV](<a href=“http://www.rhodes.edu/news/19807.asp]Rhodes”>http://www.rhodes.edu/news/19807.asp)</p>
<p>thanks lynxinsider but I’ve already seen those videos…bummer! I was kinda hoping for some more material about Rhodes life.</p>
<p>DMA…what do you want to know? lynxinsider and I can give you everything you need.</p>
<p>oh really wow thanks guys! well I normally check out colleges’ blogs to get a feel of student life from students perspectives: food quality, teacher-student relations, off-campus life etc. </p>
<p>but here are some additional questions I have:
How is Rhode’s grading system: Fair, Unfair, Needs Improvement, and/or Not Good At All? </p>
<p>I know the pre-med advising at Rhodes is top-notch, but do you have anything you’d like to say about it, i.e med-school placement, MCAT prep.</p>
<p>How diverse is the campus? I mean I’m Afro-Caribbean so I’ don’t want to be at Rhodes and feel like an outsider. Do the racial groups mingle or do they tend to form cliques?</p>
<p>I saw that Noam Chomsky came to Rhodes and I nearly died, does Rhodes host guest lectures often?</p>
<p>I’m afraid I’m a bit too far removed from my student days to really give you a student perspective. </p>
<p>The food to me is OK. It’s a good value at the Rat and is all you can eat; the Lair is tasty grill pub (love the stone oven pizza). It can get a little monotonous, but then again you’re in the middle of Memphis so you have a zillion options off campus.</p>
<p>Teacher-student relations are really strong at least based on National Survey of Student Engagement results and apocryphal stories. It’s one of the biggest reasons to come to Rhodes. Off campus life is great, again being in a city.</p>
<p>I can’t say anything about the grading system other than tell you the average GPA is just shy of a B+. </p>
<p>MCAT prep actually happens through career services; they’ll bring Kaplan on campus to offer practice tests. The library also has a lot of materials. If you want to be a doctor some day, this is one of the best places you can come.</p>
<p>About 75% of the students are white. Black students are the biggest minority. Students of different races seem to mix pretty well, but that’s another thing you want to get from a student perspective. </p>
<p>There are guest lectures all the time. Most aren’t quite as high profile as Chomsky. Something like that is usually just once a semester or year.</p>
<p>wow thanks lynxinsider! hey what can you tell me about the weather. I’m from the Carib, so its always summer here, lol, but in some of the photos of Rhodes I see snow. Does it snow often in TN during the winter? I don’t have a problem with it, I’m just wondering.</p>
<p>The weather in the summer is hot - it’s not as hot as, say, Jamaica in June, but it’s pretty close. The spring and fall are short, but pleasant. Winter we’ll typically get an inch of snow a couple of times and maybe an ice storm. Other than that winter weather swings from mid-50’s (Fahrenheit) to lower-30’s. Usually the precipitation is rain.</p>
<p>The other thing about the weather is that in late spring/early fall we get some pretty crazy thunderstorms and tornados. Usually the tornados don’t hit Memphis proper because we’re on a bluff on the Mississippi River that breaks up the storms a bit, though from time to time one does hit in the city. But, if you had to pick any place on the planet to be during a tornado, a building at Rhodes would be my first, last, and only choice.</p>
<p>Oh thanks again, lynxinsider!!! One quick question: Does Rhodes have a college newspaper?</p>
<p>It does; the Sou’wester.</p>
<p>I googled it but apparently they don’t have an online version for general viewing.</p>