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Almost through the ME program here, and overallBrightMechanical Engineering
Almost through the ME program here, and overall it's been a terrible time. I haven't had a single professor that I've actually enjoyed being a student of ? all of them are bad in different ways, but the seem to have one thing in common: Doing the bare minimum to get by. I'm talking multiple choice exams with no partial credit (on problems that require dozens of individual calculations), missing or skipping class, being actively rude to or overly demanding of students, or just generally being completely unreachable outside of class. The labs were their own separate joke, with TAs that haven't been instructed on what to do, devices that don't work, and recycled lab manuals from 10+ years ago. Overall I'm really disappointed with the school, don't think it was worth the money, and just want to finish and get my degree so I can get as far away as possible.
3rd Year Male -- Class 1923
University Resource Use/ spending: A, Education Quality: D-
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PSU is a Marxist Think-Tank.Not so brightEnglish
PSU is a Marxist Think-Tank. In the Humanities, and even in the sciences, no matter what department you are studying in every answer will have one of two possibilities: the ocean currents are caused by the evil capitalist forces that have swarmed around the proletariat and smothered the life out of them to cause the tides, or, the softly flowing waters of the Pacific are due to the amiable collective of the community of the proletariat. They will even work that into Melville or the history of the Assyrian Empire.
4th Year Male -- Class 1983
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Worse School possible.Bright
Worse School possible. Teachers in my program were fine but outside of it they were miserably bad. The school doesn't care about anything but their money. Go to community college.
4th Year Male -- Class 2018
Surrounding City: B-, Useful Schoolwork: F
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