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So, I went to this school as a Pre-vet major from 2008 to 2009, but I ended up switching majors (I'm now an art major) because their biology program sucks. Their bio department consisted of three professors, I won't mention their names, but two were nice and one of them was a total jerk. His tests were terrible and he gave us very little direction on how to do the animal dissections, but would take off points for every little thing. When I found out that only he was going to be available as a teacher next semester, I just left my major, even though I had been sure it was what I wanted to do for a long time in high school. Anyway, that wasn't the extent of my problems with Rockford. The campus is badly maintained and the parking lots are full of pot holes. The dorm I lived in was dirty and had bug and mice infections, and the residence hall guy brushed off my complaints about that entirely. I had problems with vandalism and girls talking about me behind my back, and was able to make very few friends. Extra-curriculars may as well not exist because they often get so few people for each club. I tried really hard at this school and all I got to show for it was a lot of debt and a lot of snobby bitches making fun of me. These kids are mostly from the suburbs so if you're poorer or from downstate they will be all cliquey and avoid you. You think you get more mature and evolved by college age but these kids are mostly still stuck in junior high, with childish pranks and shit. Which is cool, I can kind of understand seeing as how little there is to do around campus. I wouldn't even think of coming here without a car, either. The snow is so bad throughout most of the college year that walking places like I did was a nightmare. And to get to the mall you need a car or you need to take the bus, which in my experience was unreliable and kind of scary. The inability to leave campus due to not having a car drove me insane, I was soo bored. There is no greek activity, and the staff tends to be conservative and frown on partying activities (i.e. booze), so you can get in serious trouble for having alcohol or being loud in certain dorms. At first I signed up to live in the "quiet" dorm but not only was it totally boring, they bugged me about every little peep they heard from my room. I had to apologize for things like watching TV during the day or talking to my mom on the phone at night, because the walls are paper thin. Sure I made a few friends and the faculty were mostly great people, but most of the people I met were stiff, formal, standoffish, bureaucratic, snobby, and catty. They are more Christian and more conservative than you might expect. And basically, you're living somewhere where there's nothing to do except drink on a campus that makes having fun at that almost impossible. And the educational value was pitiful. This school costs way more than it should, it's so pretentious. No one's heard of it because it's so small, so it doesn't have a reputation to speak of. And I didn't learn anything there academically that I'm not learning better right now, at my local community college, for a lot less. |
