<p>this is the thread where you can vent about why you hate your school. </p>
<p>i really, really hate the people. especially commuters. i feel like i'm at CC (and that's not insulting anyone who's in CC, its just not my place to be)</p>
<p>Do you go to school in Chicago? What school?</p>
<p>SO many reasons. It's absolutely massive and everyone is legal to drink here so people do nothing but drink and smoke. Most people are rather dull and have absolutely no values. They are incapable of working hard, or having any sort of meaningful relationships whatsoever, whether it be friendships, or a girlfriend/boyfriend. The residences are extremely lame as well, considering the amount of money they charge. Reasoning with the administrative sections of the university is an impossible task. When you make a $2000 payment, they claim they haven't received it and give you utter hell. No financial aid whatsoever. Not enough to give clearly, and does not seem to be need-blind. I find it impossible to relate to any of these people because we just have very little in common and we could never be friends very long even if we did, because as I said, they couldn't care less about being a close community. Maybe I find this because I went to a small, very competitive high school, but it is true nonetheless. There's more but still, how is that for venting? :-P</p>
<p>"It's absolutely massive and everyone is legal to drink "</p>
<p>Cornell's the same</p>
<p>"Most people are rather dull and have absolutely no values."
American anyone?</p>
<p>zirtico, are we the saeme person?? those are my exact thoughts...</p>
<p>well, sort of. i did go to a small competitive prep high school and i matriculated into a large state school. blehh.</p>
<p>and lzs, i'm not gonna say. you can figure out where i go based on my posts :)</p>
<p>dirty.chicago--based on your posts, if you're in the city of chicago then I bet you're going to UIC (that or NIU). Both have huge commuter populations and I can definitely see why you wouldn't like being at either (assuming I'm correct). </p>
<p>I go to CC. & like alot of people that go to CC, it's terrible. Everyone is so anti social, academics are a joke, in student government they actually refer to themselves as "politicians". ***...you go to CC, and decide what clubs there can be, that barely counts as a politician! sorry, just needed to vent a little. I just want to go to a school where people are actually smart and have ambitions higher than getting an AA degree or transferring to a shoe in school down state.</p>
<p>dirty, dorms suck, cold, too much drugs and idk how cops dont see it? or why they dont do nothing about it...</p>
<p>EL TACO: Cornell is huge? haahahah. McGill has 30,000 undergrads. Cornell?
Stupid people at Cornell?? DEFINITELY a significantly smaller % than here.</p>
<p>Taco Grande - You think Cornell is too big? hardly, I guess by private school standards. My private school is even larger than Cornell and there are many larger public schools. i'm applying there and like the small atmosphere. it's all relative i guess. </p>
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"Most people are rather dull and have absolutely no values."
American anyone?
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haha have you ever left the country? people are the same all over, buddy. what, did you think that over in canada everyone would be exciting? sorry to disappoint you...nope.
What do I hate? Let's see...it's gigantic, no FA, I commute, I live with my crazy family, it has no campus and is a city school, i get no freedom in class choice and feel like i'm in middle school, haven't taken 1 good class since i've gotten here...yep, that's about it. i'll probably end up in a state school in a year. I know nothing's perfect anywhere, but at least I won't be shelling out $200K for the state school. I guess my main problem with my college is it's simply not worth the overpriced tuition.</p>
<p>THREAD NECROMANCY cuz I need to vent.</p>
<p>Academics: The art program (and, well, everything) here is a joke. The professors are earnest, though most of them don’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re teaching things that were in my high school’s curriculum. Supposed to be one of the best HBCUs, but really, they’re riding on their history; currently they suck. It’s like going to a CC (and even my friends who went to CC are learning calculus. GRR!). I actually had an argument with some classmates over whether or not you’re supposed go to college specifically to learn, with grades and a degree falling in place, or whether you go for a degree and hopefully you learn something along the way. And everyone here seems to think that way! Great environment, huh? (Don’t even get me started on those people who say that if the teachers and classes aren’t good, I should “make my own learning.” WTH am I here for, then?!)</p>
<p>Social: I’m geeky, and come from a high school with a STRONG interest in Japanese culture (where I took part in most of the related activities). Here? The Japanese club just started THIS semester, and is made up mostly of upperclassmen. 
Not to mention how I took the highest level Japanese class last semester and got an easy B (practically no studying, and I was the worst in my J4 class senior year). I have sorta-ish friends in classes, but I’m never invited to hang out with them. 
There are maybe a dozen people in my major who aren’t about to graduate, and I don’t seem to have any classes with them. As for the rest of the school? If I hear “n**ga” one more time… I don’t think a healthy college experience includes spending most of the day in your room talking to friends back home. And there’s no real way to meet anyone with similar interests outside of eavesdropping or picking people at random to ask because everyone’s too busy “keepin’ it real” in order to fit in.</p>
<p>Gah. The sad thing is I’ll probably have to spend at least another year here.</p>
<p>Everyone is alienating. I smile at people in the hallways from my classes and they ignore me. </p>
<p>The professors are smart, but should be writing, not teaching. </p>
<p>The “discussion learning” style implemented at this particular institutions does nothing to get my attention. I learned more at CC than here, and paid 1/16 of the price to do so. </p>
<p>NYC, as cool and hip as it is, is a hard place to live and make friends. When people are done with class, they jet off in 50000 different directions. If you meet someone cool in the hallway one day, chances are you’ll never see them again because of how crazy everyone’s lives are.</p>
<p>I hate my school because it is a CC. I can’t graduate with a degree there and go off to get a good job in my field. Also most of the people are stupid (it’s okay for some of the girls be stupid = easy) and loud. Plus people smoke constantly all through campus and most of the people in my classes already have babies when they were in high school. They also tend to bring their crying kids to class, sometimes on the day of exams. ■■■</p>
<p>conservative, not diverse, sheltered</p>
<p>rowd149 said:
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<p>What’s your view on the function of college?</p>
<p>This is my last semester at my crappy CC. I have had enough for sure.</p>
<p>Being slightly older (25) than the kids I go to school with, this has felt like a flashback to high school in the worst way. Kids snicker and giggle in the back of the classroom while the professor presents information. People constantly complain if they’re the least bit challenged even though there hasn’t been a single assignment that was unreasonable. There are class clowns, people that make immature sexual jokes or laugh like Beavis and Butthead when an instructor uses a “big word” or, in the case of science classes, makes reference to human sexual anatomy.</p>
<p>I can’t hate these people because I think I was one of them at one point (a matter of truth that is somewhat alarming), but I just want to scream “SHUT THE **** UP!” sometimes. </p>
<p>But it’s all over soon, almost there, then I get to transfer to a real school. I will not miss this place.</p>
<p>I believe that one should attend college to acquire the skills necessary to succeed in their chosen field. Specifically in MY chosen field, I’ve gotten the impression that a degree is secondary to demonstrable skill, and so attending a school where I can (and am encouraged) to “just get the degree and get out” doesn’t really help me with my goals.</p>
<p>The student body is influenced and is satisfied by mediocrity. No one wants to work for it here. I’m a sophomore, 19 and I tutor Economic majors in their senior year Macro class i’m simultaneously taking with them…Trust me, it’s more of their inability than my ability. </p>
<p>Same views as Zirtico. Everyone has a one mind to get ****ed up and laid. Everyone here lacks structure. Most students go to class an hour late, and they simply see college as a social benefit. Nothing about education.</p>
<p>I don’t hate my current school (University of Missouri-Columbia). I just find that I do not fit in here either academically or socially at all.</p>
<p>Until this semester the math club didn’t exist. Now it exists. I signed up the moment I heard about it. Unfortunately, it’s almost entirely upperclassmen. My roommate and I are the only freshman in the entire club of 60+ people. Further, the club has yet to discuss one mathematical topic. Every meeting is about setting up intramural sports teams or picnics at which we will play recreational sports amongst ourselves. There’s nothing wrong with that; but it’s not what I want out of school. I really love math. I want to be in a math club where we talk about math and grow as a group in our understanding of mathematics. Why can’t a faculty member give a talk once a month or something? Why can’t we participate in some competitions? Speaking of this, I suggested the Putnam competition a while ago, which I’ve dreamed of participating in ever since I heard of it, but have received no response of any kind. The school has to sponsor a Putnam team for anyone to compete, and that’s not seeming very likely. If I’m not a Putnam Fellow upon graduating, I want it to be because I couldn’t solve the problems quickly enough, not because I didn’t have the chance to even try.</p>
<p>I also have been passionate about game development since I was 12. Because of it I actually taught myself a considerable amount of computer science, physics, and math through high school. In fact, I am where I am because of it. When I found out there was a game development club here, I joined that immediately as well. But literally almost nobody attends the meetings. I’m a freshman. The club president is a graduate student in computer science. We work together on developing a physics-based game. My roommate pitches in as well. And that’s it. Almost nobody else ever bothers even showing up, and those who do never contribute anything. </p>
<p>And don’t even get me started on the computer science department here. I once lost points on a homework assignment because the grader–a Ph.D. student in computer science–insisted that 1 was an integer multiple of 3. Enough said.</p>