Mercyhurst University

Date: Jul 28 2002
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
Come to Mercyhurst! It's a great school. Challenging and diverse corse work, Helpfull staff, beautiful quite campus located in a diverse urban area. HAHAHA! This is what the administration would like you to believe. It's a lie. I can tell you the truth about Mercyhurst. The only problem is figuring out where to begin.

When you take the tour of the campus you'll be shown around and taked to by your ambassador guide. Oh they sure are friendly. Here's a hint…they are also paid! And they will lie thier ass off to you. You might be fooled. I sure as hell was. I was actually excited about going to this school. But trust me, it's all lies. They won't take you into the parts of the school that are falling apart. They won't tell you the truth about financial aid…or lack of it. They won't tell you about the professors and administration that doesn't give a damn, or if they did, they would be too dumb to know it. Your best bet is to run away… far away.

Let's start with finances. I graduated from high school with a 3.5 gpa, and 1210 SAT score. I was also president of more than one school organization. I had a 75% scholorship the other college I applied to, but I turned it down to go here. I was told… don't worry, we will make this affordable for you. LIES! My parents make well under $50,000, but I only got a 1,700 dollar scholorship (per year). This is typical actually. Don't expect good financial aid unless your parents are divorced or you have a learning disability. If you are just an average student, you'll get next to nothing, doesn't matter what your grades are. Don't believe what they tell you, cause if your like me you'll be shelling out about 20,000 a year. And if you can't pay it, they have no problem kicking you out on your ass like they did to one of my friends. They don't even try to help you here.

The academic programs seriously suck ass. I'm an anthropology/archaeology major. This is supposed to be their number one programe on campus. Ha! If that's true then the others must really suck. Challenging my ass. How about this… I literally did not go to my archaeology 101 class except for the tests and I STILL PASSED. And talk about freaks. The people in that major are a large collection of dorks from high school. They are seriously a cult. I think there are about five people in that whole major who are normal. The professors are there cult leaders too. Seriously, they will sit around and talk about what a "god" Dr. Adavasio is (head of the department) and make stupid anthro-cult (as the normal people on campus refer to them as) jokes like how they can't dress and how they are all alcholics…yeah, let's make fun of ourselves…that's cool. Assholes! They also love, as I mentioned before, to praise Dr. Adavasio. "He's a world famous archaeologist, and he's so tough he can kick anyone's ass." Riiiiiiight! First of all, world famous archaeologist is and oxymoron. There is no such thing. Maybe Indiana Jones, or Howard Carter, but that's it. Secondly, the guy is like 60 something. Just cause he might work out and drives a big car does not give him ass kicking ability. Oh, and he's bowl-legged…Ha! There, I said it! Take that anthro-dorks!

The rest of the faculty sucks as well. I think there may be a total of like twenty percent full-time faculty member. Maybe five percent with actual PhD's. Okay so that's extreme, but seriously, it's a small amount. They are all pretty dumb as well. I told one of them, with a PhD that I wanted to study classical languages, and this school doesn't really offer that (which it does not). Her response…

Yeah…uh…well…what's that?

Believe me, that's not the first time I got that response either.

The administration are also a bunch of assholes. Want to know what they do with your tuition money. It's not hard to find places where it's being wasted. How about a $600 podium that's not even used? And forget about their open-door policy. That is an utter lie.
Do you like being treated like your four years old? Then Mercyhurst is the place for you! You can't do anything in this place without your advisors signature. Oh, and we have to have our mommy's signature for our choice of roommates as well. Honestly, I was treated more like an adult in high school.

Student activities are plentiful, every Friday and Saturday night. That's it! Also, I hope you like Karioki, cause that's about the extent of their activities. Oh, and really bad comedeans. Nope, the only thing to do on the weekends here is to pretty much just get drunk. That's what most of the campus tells you. It's not really much of a party school, we just get drunk. Kind of like drinking away your sorrows kinda drunk. Oh, and I hope you really don't like inturmeural sports, cause we don't have them here. I think we had football this year, but it was cancelled due to lack of carring. And that was it. Regular sports suck here, except hockey, whick is our ONLY D1 sport. I think our football team won about one game last year.

Erie is a hell pit city. I don't care what the locals tell you, they are just in denial. In order to like this place you have to 1) hate sunshine, cause we get hardly any. 2) hate diversity 3) hate culture and having stuff to do 4) love decaying old industial buildings and 5)love bitter cold weather mixed with wind. They don't tell you on the tour or on the college website that Erie, PA is the suicide capitol of the United States, but it is. And it's a very long drive to anyother major city (that's if you have a car, cause freshmen are not allowed to have one on campus).

I think I covered all the major points. It's getting late, so I'll just leave it at that. There is more to this school that will just drive you insane. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Honestly, my friends and I have sat around for hours just talking about this school and all the things that suck about it. Just remember… HURST = WORST!