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| Quite Bright |
This university was terrible. The people were close minded ultra conservative small town Christians who have lived in (metaphorically) and will remain in the "box". The town is gross and has nothing to do. Night life = pathetic. (Graham's is not nightlife to any self-respecting human being) College experience = disheartening. The teachers with a few exceptions (can't remember the name of my wonderful Geology teacher) are the same anal-retentive, ultra conservative, uninspiring people as the student body. This place was definitely a low point in my academic career. Dorm life = a joke. Gross drugs abound (meth).
If you want to have a college experience that broadens your horizons and opens your mind, this is not it. This place shuts you off, shuts you down and will make you question the University experience. The people are hardcore Christian, cowboy hat wearing, bland, "keystone light" drinkers with no inspiring aspirations.
If you consider yourself a free-thinker.......... steer very clear of this sorry excuse for a University. As far as academics go, I have been offered far more of a challenge at a Dallas community college.
Meal plan- disgusting. Absolutely sorry food (perhaps breakfast is mildly redeeming, but hard to mess up).
Police are everywhere and are trying not to investigate the many "car burglaries" from other students overdosing on Xanax, but trying to make sure you have a miserable life filled with tickets and arrests.
Please save your money and do not got to this school. This school was honestly the most depressing and negative time of my life. This place will drain you of your human spirit and reduce your energy to zero. Find a different school to go to. I cannot stress this enough. | Perceived Campus Safety: A, Education Quality: F |  | | |
| | Mar 31 2009 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Super Brilliant |
I went to Angelo State with a few of my best friends to get out of the house and go have the college experience while knocking off a few credits. Staying there was never the plan, as it isn't with most people, they have a very high transfer rate. I was only there for the fall semester of 08, and it was a disaster.
Let me get one thing straight first: the education at Angelo is decent. I give it a C, not great, not poor. But for many people, the education is only half of the deal, sometimes less(these are supposed to be our best years right??) and in terms of the overall college experience, its awful.
Let me get another thing straight about the entire university: It is VERY conservative and VERY close minded. If you are liberal, open minded, unique or diverse, you will hate it there, and a large majority of the people there will hate you. This is probably a good school for people who want to stay in the petrie dish environment of west texas their whole life, but if you are any of the things i listed, STAY AWAY from there, it will kill your spirits and ultimately you will accomplish very little.
San Angelo the city has very little to do. Very little. 99% of people go to Grahams and unless you are very simple and easy to please(like most of the people there are...)you will get tired of that very fast. You'll find it either funny or depressing to watch the same group of slutty girls walk outside on wednesday night in flocks with their skimpy outfits on...EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK. It seems cool at first, but then any self-respecting guy will realize just how poor the quality of girls are there and how hopeless they are.
Before you get there, you will hear about all the lakes in San Angelo. And then you will realize that no one...NO ONE goes to the lake. Ever.
Dorm life sucks. I lived in Texan, which overall, the rooms were awesome. Having a living room and a private bedroom is great(especially when your roomate lives at his girlfriends dorm the whole semester so the place is pretty much yours lol). The problem is the RAs. The RA program is where Angelo apparently searched far and wide throughout the country to find the nerdiest, prudest high school hall monitors around and hired them to treat the freshman like theyre in prison. I cant get over how disrespectful and close-minded these people were. They literally treat you like little kids. There is one RA named Rick who is actually a cool person but the rest have some totally misplaced sense of authority and if you dont take it from them soon when you get there you will be treated like garbage. There is one guy there(never cared what his name was) that walks around it ROTC crap all the time and looks like the nerdiest guy possible(he should play hall monitors and such in movies, he is picture perfect for it) who thinks he is VERY important. The first time he dealt with us for being loud(another thing: if you are black or just a white person who plays anything other than country and your room, and have obese neighbors who wear boots and cowboy hats, you will get noise complaints EVERY DAY) anyways the first time he came up there, he yelled at us. I set him straight afterwards(VERY easy to intimidate) and now he wont even look me in the eyes. The point is that its very important you establish your self above all the RA garbage if your going to be living in dorms there.
DO NOT go on meal plan. The cafeteria food is a disgrace to the Texas education system, i dont even know how its allowed. Breakfast is good, I cant complain, but everything else is disgraceful given how much you pay per meal(something like 8 dollars when you break it down). AWFUL.
Also, dont fool yourself, this is not a cheap school. Compared to UT maybe, but if your not financially well off like I am, dont go to a university. Im in a few thousand dollars debt off one semester, and was set to be oweing 9000 dollars after my freshman year. I had to get out of there, it could have ruined my life financially. If your parents pay for your school, go for it, but if your less fortunate financially, BE CAREFUL.
This is only a very condensed version of my thoughts on ASU, and I just dont care enough to write any more. My only motivation was that I was someone who ignored the negative stuff I heard about this school and went anyways. If you are any sort of open-minded, diverse etc person, DONT WASTE A DAY OF YOUR LIFE IN WEST TEXAS, let alone any of your college career.
if you have questions dont use my university email, im never gonna check that again, use justin__ | Perceived Campus Safety: A-, Education Quality: F | | | |
| | Dec 29 2008 | 1st Year Male --
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| Quite Bright | I feel ASU was a great school that really prepared me for "the real world." My education was exceptional--mostly due to faculty that really cared and wanted to get to know you as a person. I was also active in a lot of school activities which gave me great leadership skills. ASU also introduced me to community service and now I volunteer regularly in my town. Overall, I loved ASU and feel it is directly responsible for setting me on a successful career. Go Rams! | Starting Job: Graphic Designer, Preparedness: B+, Reputation: A+ | | |
| | Dec 05 2008 | Alumna Female --
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| Quite Bright | I graduated from ASU in 1997 and loved every minute of it! College is what you make of it and ASU offered many opportunities to get involved, an extremely approachable faculty and administration and an education that jumpstarted me into a great career. If you are not ready for a big D1 college that sees you only as a number and are looking for a strong education in one of the friendly towns in Texas, I strongly reccommend ASU. Go Rams! | Individual Value: A+, Surrounding City: C | | | |
| | Dec 05 2008 | 4th Year Female --
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