<p>thoughts/comments?</p>
<p>if you like/love SB, why?</p>
<p>and if you dislike/hate SB, why?</p>
<p>I have never really liked Stony Brook because it’s a commuter school and the campus is really ugly. I could never see myself going there.</p>
<p>BUT, it still has great academics, especially in the sciences.</p>
<p>haha i find it funny/sad it has its own dedicated sucking website, but i thought the campus looked alright</p>
<p>StonyBrookSucks.com sucks.</p>
<p>i disagree, stevens89, but feel free to tell us why you think so :)</p>
<p>if SB sucks it is your fault- school is what you make of it.</p>
<p>I agree with Malishka, if you expect the school to make your experience a great one, you will be disappointed. With that said, there are schools with a lot more resources than stony brook, but if you can’t get into them or go there why bother comparing? Whether a school is good or not is relative; among sunys, i think it is probably the best overall. Among all state schools, it is def not the best. </p>
<p>It also depends on your priorities. For ams, physics, math, engineering, the school is very well regarded. If you want school spirit and athletics, this school is definitely not it. </p>
<p>As far as stonybrooksucks.com , the website hasn’t been updated in like 8 years and last I head, the person who owns it was selling the site, so I don’t see a point in revisitting it. but if you like that kind of humor, The Press newspaper often has funny articles ridiculing the school/administration.</p>
<p>well unless the site creator would be totally pathetic, i would hope he would eventually get over his experience in sbu haha.</p>
<p>I think you said it well frasifrasi, but you also stated the problem. More people than not, want “the school spirit and athletics,” even though there’s much more to it than that. Those things shape the other part of college that you don’t want to miss out: fun.</p>
<p>Of course school is what you make of it, but for some it has to be “spoon-fed.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I think you are right, too. if you want the “fun” part, you do have to make an extra effort here at stony brook. For example, I transferred in after two years at penn state, and there, going to any football/volleyball/soccer/basketball/etc game was guaranteed craziness. There is the fraternity roll right on campus where you can show up and party wildly any time. Good luck finding a party to go to at stony brook… Unless you know someone throwing one in west, there is nothind to do fri/sat nights. They used to have free rides to clubs on thursdays, but that is over.</p>
<p>I do miss these things, but I knew what to expect when I applied here. That is why it depends on what you want in a school, unless someone forced you to go here lol.</p>
<p>I like Stony Brook. I went there with a friend during one of his schooldays to take care of things I needed to do (forms and whatnot) and really liked it. </p>
<p>People say it’s ugly, but if they were expecting a school like Columbia, I’m not sure what they were smoking. The school was built right after WWII, when our country had very little money. Compared to schools like UAlbany, which is a slab of concrete, it’s pretty nice. </p>
<p>Kids go to the school from Cali and say “This town is BS.” Well, you came from a state which is essentially one big city and you’re moving to a less populated area than suburbia. “This isn’t a party school.” You’re kidding, right? It might be a commuter school, but DAMN, I’ve seen pictures of those parties from friends who went. College is about networking-- if you’re a freshie, find someone to give you booze and some green if it’s what you want. If you stay locked up in your room studying but complain that you never have any fun, only YOU are to blame for that. </p>
<p>“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” That’s what college is all about. People who say the school sucks seem to be boring people who don’t have friends that like to have fun. Again, that’s their own fault, not the school’s suckness-factor. Make the most of what you’ve got and you’ll have a great time. Don’t wanna? You should know what I’m about to say… don’t complain.</p>
<p>I transffered in from UCLA, i hated it there and I prefer stony brooks atmosphere, but then again, i do not live on campus and my life has nothing to do with “college” life. </p>
<p>I am pretty sure that 99% of people would love UCLA over SB. But SB is meeting my needs and I am happy with that.</p>
<p>At the end of the day , your ability to party,or go to a more sports games isnt what you are in college for, you are there for an education.</p>
<p>it all depends on what you want i guess. </p>
<p>i’m happy to be leaving. i just hate so much about it. that said, i met some great people and i got 2 best friends from stony (thought one also transferred out) and i can’t imagine life without them. i’ve had some really great profs too. i was a psych major at sb, and if you have the chance, take drugs and the brain with dr. whitaker and any class with dr. brennan. brennan in particular is an amazing woman. drugs and the brain was probably the best class i took at sb.</p>
<p>Years ago Stony was probably one of the ugliest campuses in the country. Miraculously, they have done an incredible job sprucing it up. No it’s not Cornell or Vassar or Wesleyan, but if you reject Stony because of the appearance of the campus, there’s something wrong.</p>
<p>stony makes me think of jails, except for the new engineering building that’s basically hidden away next to the computing center. the fountain is the only pretty thing they’ve got going for them (which is probably why it’s in every picture of stony). i wouldn’t not go because of the campus though, so i do agree with that point.</p>
<p>If you know that you dislike Stony Brook that much, by all means do not apply. There are actually some students who are interested in attending, so don’t waste a spot or your time ranting about a great SUNY school.</p>
<p>uh, excuse you. i started at stony but now i go to cornell. so i did make room for other kids who want to be there. and now i’ll have a pretty ivy league degree and they can have their stony brook one.</p>
<p>you may want to consider reading the whole thread before making random comments.</p>
<p>Having a Cornell degree guarantees you nothing. Having a SB degree does not mean you will be a failure in life. It is mostly up to the individual in terms of motivation, personal characteristics, luck, and lots of other factors. You sound very immature and superficial.</p>
<p>And shouldn’t you be posting on the Cornell site?</p>
<p>FYI, the Ivy League board was going to expel Cornell as an Ivy because they felt it was “not living up to Ivy-league standards” (whatever those may be), but after the students kept whining, they backed off.</p>
<p>You still have a lot of growing up to do unfortunately, and I hope that time will do that for you. Good luck.</p>
<p>i am really superficial, but not immature. i know what i want and you can’t deny that a cornell degree looks better than a state school one. and i would be posting on the cornell site, but some kid posted on this thread telling me i shouldn’t be applying to sb if i didn’t like it, so i was clearing up exactly what went on, since i clearly said that i transferred out of sb. and i agree that a sb degree is worth something; i never said it wasn’t. i was responding to versii or whatever that user’s name is, so chill out. </p>
<p>anyway, enjoy your time at sb. i hated every second of it. and i hope versii gets in and gets to have my spot since he/she clearly wants it way more than i ever did.</p>
<p>Stony Brook has its flaws, but you can’t really compare the value of the education here to an Ivy. I chose SB over Cornell, Columbia, and UPenn because I’m going to medical school and I can’t afford to finance two expensive educations. The honors program here offered me a full ride, but even if I had to pay, I’d much rather pay $5,000 a year right now instead of 20,000+. My classmates in the honors and pharmacology programs have already been accepted to Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke, and other top schools, so I believe SB was a much better investment.</p>
<p>If you’re not planning to go to grad school, an Ivy degree is definitely to your benefit. But why spend the money on an expensive undergrad degree if you are going to planning to go to grad school? If money’s no object, by all means go to Cornell or an expensive private school with better food, better dorms, and cushier accommodations. </p>
<p>I’ll admit that I was less than enthralled with SB when I got here. The other pre-med students were ridiculously competitive, the lectures are as big as 570 students in a single class, and it’s definitely a commuter school.</p>
<p>Now I’m in a major I really like and have gotten close to my classmates, I wish I was on campus instead of 45 minutes away. Once you find your niche here, there are some great people and potential for awesome student life. My opinion of the school has changed completely. Sure, I have my complaints, but I’m happy in general. For a large school, it’s surprisingly easy to cut through the red tape. </p>
<p>I suspect that the key to success here is maturity. You have to learn early on how to approach professors. If you’re gung-ho and forceful, they perceive you as insincere and ignore you. If you only show up to whine about 5 points on an exam, they instantly find you irritating. However, if you show up (weeks before the first exam) with a list of questions from lecture and from you’re own deliberation on the subject, they’re all really receptive to talking, and that includes the “pre-med killers” who are reputed to be unapproachable and mean. You’ll distinguish yourself even in a class of 500+ students, and they’ll be happy to help and guide you, and in some cases (in my own experience) bump you up from a B+/A- to an A.</p>