The University of North Florida

I lived in the apartments next to the campus - lots of volleyball and other extracurricular activities! I also spent a lot of time "studying" at the beach - something you can't do at UF or FSU with the kind of regularity I did at UNF.

As for athletics, the baseball team is excellent. But I would much rather UNF be recognized for academics than athletics. Why? Because it's a university, silly! If you want athletics to take precedence over a solid education, you've go no business at UNF.

Jacksonville the city? Well, it's very spread out. But if you stay close to the beach, you'll find many wacky kinds of folks. I know it's in the bible belt. I know it's not very tolerant away from the beach. But I found a number of excellnt people to hang with who were not bible-toting, confederate relics. When I left there were a number of New Yorkers moving into the area. Watch out! Like any large city, it has good and bad. It's best not to get hung up on perceptions that a town is liberal or conservative. I studied in Ann Arbor MI, too. And there are lots of conservatives there as well. Don't count UNF out if you're still considering where you want to study. My experience was a definite positive.