<p>Bumppppp!..</p>
<p>HAH. I love this.
Well, I’m actually embarrassed to tell people where I go, I usually say, “I go to school in New York.”
The students are idiots.
It’s so difficult to find a decent professor, and when you do, their class is usually full.
No social activities.
No school spirit.
Guidos. Nuff said.
The area that surrounds my school is HORRIFYINGLY ghetto. I once was stranded at a train station and, I swear to god, I saw a hooker exchange a blow job for a cigarette. Seriously.
This weekend, I was chased down by two guys and narrowly escaped being raped/mugged/murdered because I happened to make it to one of those blue light things before they caught up with me.</p>
<p>I just want to be at a school where other students are intelligent and can relate to me. Most of these students grew up in this area and commute. They don’t have much of a world perspective beyond their hometowns.</p>
<p>I lolled at some of the responses to this thread. I can empathize with most of you.</p>
<ol>
<li>Embarrassed to be at my current school (I don’t even wear my school shirts outside of my house anymore).</li>
<li>Lacks prestige.</li>
<li>The quality of the students is much lower than I anticipated.</li>
<li>No football team.</li>
<li>Basketball team sucks.</li>
<li>Commuter school.</li>
<li>Professors are decent but decent doesn’t cut it for me :)</li>
</ol>
<p>BTW I’m not talking about Vandy in case you noticed “Vanderbilt '14” below my name. I’m actually transferring to Vandy or Northwestern (accepted by Vandy, awaiting a decision from NU).</p>
<p>I feel better knowing that people feel the same way about their school as I do about mine… I truly thought I was the only person in college that was horribly embarrassed about where I am and felt that the other students are… well, yeah.</p>
<p>Everybody feels the same here. It’s as if you took all the jocks and preps from high school and put them all in one place. Zero diversity.</p>
<p>And, well, I kind of hate Greek life. I had no idea it was so big here; if I’d known, I would’ve never come. The main source of entertainment on the weekends here is to go get trashed at one of the frats, which really just isn’t my idea of a weekend well-spent :/</p>
<p>I can’t wait to leave community college. Love this thread. My reasons:
- Everyone around me is apathetic. They have no passion, no drive. They’re aspiring for mediocrity and it’s rubbing off on me.
- I love my parents, but I want to be self-sufficient.
- Most of my teachers are just as disheartened and apathetic as the students. The ones that aren’t take themselves way too seriously, which is irritating.
- Commuting to school makes me want to rip my hair out. Looking for parking each day is worse.
- My counselors have continuously pointed me in the wrong direction, giving me awful advice and screwing me over. The fact that it’s happened several times is extremely frustrating.
- I am embarrassed to be in community college. I was lazy in high school and never tried. I regret it every day.
- I just feel like I’m wasting my life here. There is something better than this, I know that. I want to be a part of it.</p>
<p>1) Every kid is from one of three states on the east coast, and I’m from the west.
2) Every person is wealthy and spoiled
3) Not enough to do
4) Most people have the ivy-league inferiority complex
5) All of the above reasons mean I simply am not happy here, and I want to be happy in college</p>
<ol>
<li>I go to a crap public school and i am ashamed that I go here.
2.I go to a crap public school and i am ashamed that I go here.
3.I go to a crap public school and i am ashamed that I go here.</li>
</ol>
<p>1) I go to a school with very weak academics (especially in the humanities).
2) I cannot identify with the student body.
3) It’s one of the biggest party schools in the country. I enjoy having a good time, but some of the hedonism–parties on Wednesdays, lots of students come to class drunk etc.–is just ridiculous.
4) Staying in my hometown sucks. The only redeeming aspect of it is the Mexican food and our large park. Otherwise, the community is pretty awful/hyper-focused on hippie activities. You’re either a huge hippie an alcoholic. There seems to be no middle ground. Also, driving 15mins to park 10 blocks away from campus sucks.</p>
<p>"The area that surrounds my school is HORRIFYINGLY ghetto. I once was stranded at a train station and, I swear to god, I saw a hooker exchange a blow job for a cigarette. Seriously.</p>
<p>This weekend, I was chased down by two guys and narrowly escaped being raped/mugged/murdered because I happened to make it to one of those blue light things before they caught up with me."</p>
<p>Best reasons I’ve read thus far.</p>
<p>stomeimmaculate: “I want to tell people at cocktail parties that I went to a prestigious school.”
story of my life.</p>
<p>I’ve just finished CC, but I can give the reasons I left my first college:</p>
<ol>
<li>Too big, no campus (inner city commuter schools ftl).</li>
<li>Everyone who graduated high school was accepted. I’m a little big of a prestige snob, sorry to say.</li>
<li>The mindset that went along with barely getting by in high school. I don’t want to hang around with a ton of kids that think it’s soo cool to never go to class.</li>
</ol>
<p>But now I’m off to my dream school so it worked out :D</p>
<p>LOL I see a lot of hatred/negative things about our respective schools.</p>
<p>Question: What did you guys write in your essays? (since your not really supposed to bash your school)</p>
<ol>
<li>I go to a community college. 'Nuff said.</li>
<li>I hate the low expectations of the people here (“move in with my boyfriend, get a mediocre job, have four children, and retire to another island” ugh)</li>
<li>The racism is killing me. When I got j**z hurled at me, I knew it was time to leave.</li>
<li>I don’t want to live the American dream. I want to move back to Europe, and the first place to start is by going to college there.</li>
</ol>
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<p>LMAOOO! probably the best reason so far.</p>
<p>bumping this thread! the responses are funny hahah</p>