The State University of New York Binghamton

Let me describe what life at Binghamton is like:

--4600 guys, 5400 girls. 5000 of those girls have boyfriends. 400 of them think they are too good for any of the guys here.

--95% Democrats. Other 5% consider John Kerry to be a conservative.
--5000 Asians, think they are "ghetto" and "minority" and won't talk to any of the 4500 white kids. They want to hang with the 500 black kids, but the black kids don't want to hang with the Chinese kids. This results in a heavily racially divided student body, as apparent in the dining halls.

--No matter what Lois DeFleur and PR may claim, this school feels like it's 50% Long Island, 45% New York City, and 5% "Upstate" (According to most people at this school, if you live 2 blocks north of the Bronx you are a white trash hick who lives on a cow farm and shops at Walmart regularly.) The Long Island kids will only hang out with other Long Island kids and of course, cool badass "City" kids, but the City kids hate all the Long Island kids and everyone seems to forget about the "upstaters" (very liberally defined). Out of staters non-existent.

--Out of the white students, 50% are Jewish. The other 50% are too embarassed to admit they're Jews.
--Snows most of the time. When it's now snowing, it's raining. When it's not raining or snowing, it's like -2 degrees with a windchill of -27. It's only actually nice out for the first and last 3 weeks of the school year, if that.--On any given Friday or Saturday night, 50% of the students go to a bar. The other 50% go to the frats. If you live in Newing, this also applies to Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights.

2nd Year Male -- Class 2006

I'm from nj and I'm a freshman at bing. I can honestly say that I had a better time in my freshman year of high school than i did this year at binghamton. I was extremely surprised at how immature all of the people here are. It's like they have never gotten drunk until college. It's a shit show, i feel like I'm partying with a bunch of twelve year olds. I have yet to take my first piss of the day in a toilet that wasn't covered in puke. On top of all that, everyone here is either Asian or a snobby asshole from Long Island. Nobody is friendly, it's like they strive to make you feel out of place. I wouldn't recommend coming to bing if your out of state, especially if your shy. The people here are so cliquey that it is hard to make solid friends. The girls here travel in large groups and are just straight mean. Forget trying to talk to them at a party. they will either stare at you like you have six heads or just completely ignore the fact that your acknowledging them. The only nice people here are the Asains cause they mostly stick to themselves and don't bother anyone. And they will always bum you a cig if u need. Good thing to keep in mind cause cigs are expensive as hell up here. Oh yea and the bud is actually real dank up here and a lot of kids burn. Probably the only plus side of this shithole.

Overall, the social life blows. The only thing to do on the weekend is pregame at your dorm, go to an overcrowded and scummy frat, and then make your way down to the bars where you can expect to pay four bucks for a decent beer, and not be able to maneuver around all the sweaty assholes there (repeat every weekend). The cheapest night your lookin at is about twenty bucks and thats if you buy one drink at the bars. If your tryin to get wasted the bars are not the place to go (unless you steal peoples drinks from the bar when their not looking and yes it actually works because these people are that drunk that they forget they ordered a drink).

Just a note- one night at the bars i was experimenting to see how drunk these people really were. I had an idea to grab a cup and go up to random people i didn't know who had pitchers of beer and ask them to pour me some. Not to my surprise at all, they never even hesitated and it worked every time. I just wish i had thought of this genius idea earlier. I would have actually saved some money for once.Anyway I would recommend that you avoid bing at all costs. The weather is horrible, the food sucks, and so do the people. The only good thing about this school is the diploma you get at the end. If your looking for the real college experience and you consider yourself more mature than a twelve year old, then binghamton is not the place for you.

1st Year Male -- Class 2014

Perceived Campus Safety: B, Education Quality: F