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| Quite Bright | If you will be taking Chemistry to earn your degree, DO NOT come to Guilford College to take it. The Chemistry department is a joke. I feel as if I am not getting my money's worth. Basically, the students are given these ChemActivity excercises to do in class and the teachers barely lecture or tell you what to expect on quizzes or exams. It's kinda of like the teachers are like here's what we need to do, you have your book, best of luck to you-all they have to do is walk around the classroom...must be nice to get paid and not have to do anything. Anyways, when test day comes you will be presently surprised with a test that is 2 levels above anything you have went over in class. This is of course your fault because you were suppose to do the 100+ problems from homework, ungraded homework, and your Moog text book which will take you forever and half to actually complete b/c you don't know how the hell to do them. By the way, the reason you don't know how is because the teacher doesn't teach. That is all I wanted was to be TAUGHT! They take a difficult subject and have made it MORE difficult than it has to be. The class structure has created more frustration which has caused me not to learn as much. The sad thing is I spend MOST of my time on Chemistry and it is my worst grade; I have made all A's on my college coursework except for this class and I truly beleive it is the teaching method. Something needs to be done about it. I have enjoyed my other classes at Guilford but have considered transferring from the college JUST because of this class. BTW the Biology department is great! | Collaboration/Competitive: A, Useful Schoolwork: C |  | | |
| | Mar 19 2010 | 1st Year Female --
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| Quite Bright | We need some time some space for our life we need subjects to be more organized prof more helpful more materials to allow self study and understanding | Collaboration/Competitive: A+, Innovation: C | | | |
| | Feb 28 2010 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Super Brilliant | I will keep my comments brief and say that Guilford is not for everyone. It is a special kind of college where a special kind of student is meant to thrive. If you are looking for a huge University with Greek life and that whole mess, look elsewhere. I came to Guilford because I simply cannot learn in a lecture hall with 200 kids and a professor who will never bother to learn my name. I need accessible faculty who will hold me accountable for taking control of my own education. In this environment, I have risen to be the star of my department, with faculty begging (no exaggeration) me to enroll in their courses. I have found that the Athlete-Non Athlete divide is slowly healing, although the administration seems to be doing everything it can to impede this recovery. This brings me to the college's biggest negative: for such a small school, Guilford's administration operates in a tangled, unorganized mess of Bureaucracy that is frustrating to the point of absurdity. The College's current president is a number crunching pencil pusher with no holistic idea of the school that he is running. This school needs a serious administrative overhaul, and it needs to come sooner rather than later. Greensboro is okay, for such a big city, there is not a lot to do here but its not too boring on the weekends. So there it is, Guilford College. If you are the kind of student who needs this type of school, then the cost of tuition is worth every penny. | Faculty Accessibility: A+, Extracurricular Activities: D- | | | |
| | May 13 2009 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Bright |
I left Guilford halfway through the second semester of my freshman year. If you are a student dealing with depression or any other mental issues, the student "help" center is completely unhelpful and cold, and this was a big part of the reason I left.
I had three excellent classes and a professor who seriously changed my life, but other than that the classes are boring and vapid. I had two professors who were condescending and really "dumbed down" the classes. I really felt as though almost every class was pandering to the kids they thought would do the worst. In spite of this, there is seemingly endless amounts of meaningless busywork to be completed.
Socially, the school is not what it advertises- there isn't much diversity and many of the students are closed-minded to an annoying point (I was actually called a "yankee" about five times) The culture is extremely "Bro"-y. Lots of beer pong, stupid naked people running screaming past your dorm room at 3am. Bryan Hall is ridiculous, my friends and I often compared it to a gladitorial arena.
The school has a few great teachers and some of the classes looked extremely interesting (although the gen ed requirements are so ridiculous you'll probably never get to take them). I wouldn't go to Guilford if you are under the impression that it is somehow different from other liberal arts schools- you'll just end up disappointed like me. | Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Useful Schoolwork: F | | | |
| | Feb 24 2009 | 1st Year Female --
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